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Models, banking applications, product economics and AI governance.

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Google outlines private, persistent memory for AI assistants

Google described an extension of Private AI Compute designed to retain assistant context across sessions and devices. Its proposed architecture combines encrypted storage, keys held by user devices and processing inside secure enclaves.

Published: Sep 27, 2026

Curtis backs proposed protections for AI whistleblowers

Utah Senator John Curtis announced his support for the bipartisan AI Whistleblower Protection Act. His office says the proposal would protect covered disclosures involving federal-law violations, national security or public safety, prohibit retaliation and prevent nondisclosure agreements from blocking protected reports.

Published: Sep 27, 2026

Anthropic brings evaluators inside model development

Anthropic announced an embedded evaluation partnership with Accenture, led by its AI business Faculty, giving evaluators deeper access during model development. The program covers adversarial testing, alignment and safeguards. Anthropic and Accenture each expect to invest at least $1 billion in evaluation capacity over five years.

Published: Sep 27, 2026

Payment-agent research tests authorization outside the AI model

An APort-authored preprint replayed 4,371 human-written attacks across 14 models. In 68,970 matched tests at policy levels 2–4, it reports 105 transfers to prohibited recipients with model-only controls and none when a deterministic authorization check guarded tool execution.

Published: Sep 27, 2026

Deep dives

Model-risk management after SR 11-7: what SR 26-2 changes

The April 17, 2026 interagency guidance supersedes SR 11-7 and SR 21-8, emphasizes materiality and excludes generative and agentic AI from its formal scope without removing broader governance responsibilities.

Published: Sep 27, 2026

Feedzai

Fraud decisioning, digital trust and the evidence needed to evaluate performance claims.

Published: Sep 26, 2026

Official policy

Cybersecurity supervision — OCC 2026-48 ↗

Updates the structure and references of the Cybersecurity Supervision Work Program and rescinds the 2023 bulletin. The OCC says the update adds no procedures and establishes no new regulatory expectations.

Source date: Sep 21, 2026

Digital identity — NIST SP 800-63-4 ↗

Final guidance on identity proofing, authentication and federation, replacing SP 800-63-3. Useful for evaluating assurance levels and vendor controls; it does not independently establish compliance with bank CIP requirements.

Source date: Jul 31, 2025

Consumer-report disposal — 16 CFR Part 682 ↗

Reasonable measures for disposing of consumer-report information and records held for a business purpose. Relevant to retention schedules, document destruction and disposal service-provider oversight.

E-SIGN — electronic records and consumer consent ↗

Statutory recognition of electronic signatures and records, with conditions for electronic delivery of legally required consumer disclosures. Useful for consent, retention and reproducibility controls in digital account opening.

NIST Cybersecurity Framework ↗

Official framework, implementation resources and profiles for organizing cybersecurity risk management. A voluntary framework for most private-sector users; distinguish its outcomes from binding banking requirements.