AI agents are going rogue. Here’s what banks can do about it

By Penny Crosman, American Banker, 13 April 2026 URL: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/ai-agents-are-going-rogue-heres-what-banks-can-do-about-it Early one recent morning, a team of researchers at Alibaba were urgently summoned to a meeting. The company's cloud computing firewall had flagged several security policy violations coming from the company's training servers, on which newly developed AI agents were being run. Some AI agents … Continue reading AI agents are going rogue. Here’s what banks can do about it →

The Model Context Protocol brings agents to life—along with risk

By Anthony Malakian, waterstechnology, 17 July 2025 URL: https://www.waterstechnology.com/emerging-technologies/7952566/the-model-context-protocol-brings-agents-to-life%E2%80%94along-with-risk How quickly the world changes. In November 2022, OpenAI unleashed its generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, on the world. Exactly two years later, Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), its open-sourced standard that defines how large language models (LLMs) and AI agents can interface with external … Continue reading The Model Context Protocol brings agents to life—along with risk →

Vibe coding as a productivity tool: What banks should know

By Penny Crosman, American Banker, 26 June 2025 URL: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/is-vibe-coding-safe-for-banks The idea of vibe coding — sharing your feelings about the kind of software you want to create with a generative AI coding assistant, rather than feeding it clear instructions — has become popular. It also seems antithetical to working in a bank, where everything, … Continue reading Vibe coding as a productivity tool: What banks should know →

Study: RAG-based LLMs less safe than non-RAG

By Anthony Malakian, waterstechnology, 29 Apr 2025 URL: https://www.waterstechnology.com/emerging-technologies/7952391/study-rag-based-llms-less-safe-than-non-rag In the world of large language models, the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework has gained favor as companies have looked to develop LLMs. RAG approaches grew in popularity about a year ago as the framework was viewed as a way to reduce hallucinations related to generative AI. … Continue reading Study: RAG-based LLMs less safe than non-RAG →

‘We want to enable the whole bank with AI’: Lloyds Bank

By Penny Crosman, American Banker, 9 April 2025 URL: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/lloyds-bank-moves-forward-with-ai-using-google-technology "The fact that Lloyds is using a variety of models makes sense in this rapidly changing AI technology landscape, said Steve Rubinow, a professor in the department of information technology and management at Illinois Institute of Technology and former chief information officer at the New … Continue reading ‘We want to enable the whole bank with AI’: Lloyds Bank →