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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 I. 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…

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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…

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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…

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AI Enforcement Starts with Washing: The SEC Charges its First AI Fraud Cases

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Avi Gesser, Arian June, Robert B. Kaplan, Julie M. Riewe, Jeff Robins, Kristin Snyder, Jonathan R. Tuttle, James Amler, Phil Fortino, Matt Kelly, Anna Moody, Stephan J. Schlegelmilch, Gabriel Kohan and Corey Goldstein March 19, 2024

On March 18, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced settled charges against two investment advisers, Delphia (USA) Inc. (“Delphia”) and Global Predictions Inc. (“Global Predictions”) for making…

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SEC Proposes Rule to Eliminate or Neutralize Conflicts of Interest in the Use of “Predictive Data Analytics” Technologies

By: Andrew J. Ceresney, Charu A. Chandrasekhar, Avi Gesser, Robert B. Kaplan, Marc Ponchione, Julie M. Riewe, Jeff Robins, Kristin Snyder, Matt Kelly, Gary Murphy, Sheena Paul, Jarrett Lewis, Catherine Morrison and Mengyi Xu August 14, 2023

On July 26, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued proposed rules (the “Proposed Rules”) that would require broker-dealers and investment advisers (collectively, “firms”) to evaluate their use…