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Artificial Intelligence

Debevoise Data Blog: Top 14 AI Posts of 2025

By: Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Andrew J. Ceresney, Courtney M. Dankworth, Avi Gesser, Robert B. Kaplan, Gordon Moodie, Jim Pastore, Julie M. Riewe, Jeff Robins, Kristin Snyder, Matt Kelly, Johanna Skrzypczyk, Karen Levy, Diane Bernabei, Michael Bloom, HJ Brehmer, Suchita Mandavilli Brundage, Melyssa Eigen, Joshua A. Goland, Martha Hirst, Gabriel Kohan, Carl Lasker, Jeremy Liss, Andreas Constantine Pavlou, Joshua Plastrik, Achutha Raman, Adam Shankman, Stephanie Thomas, Nathaniel Waldman, Annabella M. Waszkiewicz, Stan Gershengoren, William Sadd, Nicholas T. Ziebell, Patty (Virtual AI Specialist) and Sergio (Virtual AI Specialist) December 8, 2025

Why Agentic AI Often Fails and the Enduring Value of Human Judgment (11/4/2025) We’ve been doing a lot of work recently on agentic AI workflows. In this post, we share…

Artificial Intelligence

Agentic AI in Retail Investing: Navigating Regulatory and Operational Risk

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Avi Gesser, Robert B. Kaplan, Julie M. Riewe, Jeff Robins, Kristin Snyder and Achutha Raman October 29, 2025

The Rise of AI-Driven Investing in Retail Finance Generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) innovations are rapidly transforming the formulation, analysis, and delivery of investment advice. Many broker-dealers and investment advisers are…

Artificial Intelligence

In 2025, One of the Biggest AI Risks Is Not Letting Employees Use AI – Lessons from Off-Channel Communications

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Avi Gesser, Julie M. Riewe, Kristin Snyder and Suchita Mandavilli Brundage July 7, 2025

Allowing employees to use generative AI (“GenAI”) comes with significant risks—such as the loss of confidentiality over sensitive firm and client information, mistakes occurring in important documents or decisions, loss…

Artificial Intelligence

The SEC and DOJ Signal Continued Focus on AI Washing Under Trump Administration

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Avi Gesser, Julie M. Riewe, Kristin Snyder and Cameron B. Wolfe April 17, 2025

On April 9, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York filed parallel actions against Albert Saniger,…

Artificial Intelligence

SEC’s Focus on Cyber and AI to Continue Under Trump Administration

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Luke Dembosky, Avi Gesser, Erez Liebermann, Jeff Robins, Julie M. Riewe, Kristin Snyder and Cameron Sharp February 21, 2025

On February 20, 2025, the SEC announced the creation of the Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit (“CETU”) to focus on “combatting cyber-related misconduct and to protect retail investors from bad…

Artificial Intelligence

Top 10 SEC Cyber/AI Blog Posts for 2024

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Luke Dembosky, Avi Gesser, Eric T. Juergens, Arian June, Robert B. Kaplan, Erez Liebermann, Sheena Paul, Benjamin R. Pedersen, Marc Ponchione, Jeff Robins, Paul Rodel, Julie M. Riewe, Kristin Snyder, Jonathan R. Tuttle, Phil Fortino, Matt Kelly, Anna Moody, Stephan J. Schlegelmilch, Johanna Skrzypczyk, Suchita Mandavilli Brundage, Kelly Donoghue, Andreas A. Glimenakis, Alice Gu, John Jacob, Gabriel Kohan, Talia Lorch, Ciera Mandelsberg, Noah L. Schwartz, Ned Terrace and Mengyi Xu December 12, 2024

As we approach the end of the year, here are the Top 10 SEC Cyber/AI posts on the Debevoise Data Blog in 2024 by page views. If you are not…

Enforcement

SEC Charges Four Companies for Misleading Cyber Disclosures

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Luke Dembosky, Erez Liebermann, Benjamin R. Pedersen, Julie M. Riewe, Matt Kelly, Anna Moody, Kelly Donoghue, Ciera Mandelsberg and Noah L. Schwartz October 28, 2024

On October 22, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced settled charges in separate actions against four technology companies—Avaya Holdings Corp. (“Avaya”), Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.…

Cybersecurity

Internal Accounting Controls Claim Rejected in SolarWinds Case

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Luke Dembosky, Erez Liebermann, Benjamin R. Pedersen, Julie M. Riewe, Paul Rodel, Matt Kelly, Anna Moody, Alice Gu and Talia Lorch July 23, 2024

On July 18, 2024, in the landmark SEC v. SolarWinds Corp. case, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer dismissed the majority of the claims brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the…

Cybersecurity

Incident Response Plans Are Now Accounting Controls? SEC Brings First-Ever Settled Cybersecurity Internal Controls Charges

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Luke Dembosky, Avi Gesser, Erez Liebermann, Benjamin R. Pedersen, Julie M. Riewe, Matt Kelly, Anna Moody and Andreas A. Glimenakis June 20, 2024

In an unprecedented settlement, on June 18, 2024, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced that communications and marketing provider R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (“RRD”) agreed to…

Artificial Intelligence

SEC Targets AI Washing in Private Capital Markets: “Old School Fraud Using New School Buzzwords”

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Avi Gesser, Julie M. Riewe, Kristin Snyder, Matt Kelly and Suchita Mandavilli Brundage June 14, 2024

On June 11, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed its third matter this year involving “AI washing”—namely, alleged misstatements or omissions by securities market participants about the…