Combined AI Risk and Compliance release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Yokohama

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Combined AI Risk and Compliance release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Yokohama

Release version: Yokohama

Updated July 20, 2026

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Summary of Combined AI Risk and Compliance Release Notes for Upgrades from Xanadu to Yokohama

This consolidated release notes document outlines the key information for ServiceNow customers upgrading AI Risk and Compliance solutions from the Xanadu release family to the Yokohama release. It consolidates all new features, changes, activation guidance, and relevant notes to help prepare for and execute the upgrade efficiently. Notably, there were no updates, changes, removals, or deprecations between these releases for AI Risk and Compliance beyond the new Yokohama features.

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Key Features in Yokohama Release

AI Asset Lifecycle Management: Enables end-to-end management of AI assets including systems, models, and datasets. This feature supports centralized inventory, consistent governance, improved traceability, and oversight throughout AI development and usage.
Impact Assessments: Allows assessment of AI use cases to detect risks affecting fundamental rights such as copyright, bias, privacy, misinformation, and surveillance, supporting risk mitigation and compliance.
AI Asset Inventory Risk Management: Enables granular risk assessments on specific AI assets, evaluating individual risk factors for better risk control.
AI Case Management: Provides structured management of AI-related cases and incidents to document, investigate, and resolve issues with accountability.
AI Framework Content Pack: Supplies a compliance-ready AI asset inventory aligned with major regulations and standards like the EU AI Act and NIST AI Risk Management Framework, facilitating regulatory alignment.
AI Risk and Compliance Workspace: Offers a comprehensive dashboard showing AI asset risk classifications, compliance status, assessments, control attestations, issues, and policy exceptions. It supports reporting to inform leadership on risk mitigation.
360° Relationship Visualization: Visualizes interdependencies among AI assets, controls, risks, and issues to enhance understanding of AI governance impacts.
Internal Collaboration: Supports chats and discussions focused on ethics, transparency, and accountability throughout the AI asset lifecycle to promote informed decision-making.
Role-Based Access: Introduces roles such as AI Risk and Compliance Admin, Manager, Analyst, User, and Reader, each with specific permissions to manage, assess, and monitor AI systems and related activities, ensuring secure and organized governance.

Upgrade and Activation Guidance

Before upgrading to Yokohama, customers should review and complete any pre- and post-upgrade tasks. Activation of AI Risk and Compliance in Yokohama requires requesting the application from the ServiceNow Store. Customers can view available apps and submit requests through the Store website. There are no new additional requirements, browser requirements, accessibility notes, or localization considerations introduced in Yokohama.

Why This Matters

The Yokohama release enhances AI governance capabilities by providing comprehensive lifecycle management, risk and impact assessments, case management, and regulatory alignment tools. These improvements empower organizations to maintain better control, visibility, and compliance over AI assets, which is increasingly critical given evolving AI regulations and ethical standards.

What to Expect

Improved oversight and traceability of AI assets and their associated risks.
A centralized, compliance-ready AI asset inventory mapped to key regulations.
Structured case management to handle AI-related incidents efficiently and consistently.
Enhanced collaboration features to support ethical and transparent AI governance.
Role-specific permissions to ensure appropriate access and actions by stakeholders.
Comprehensive workspace dashboards and reports to assist leadership in risk assessment and mitigation.

Consolidated page of all release notes for AI Risk and Compliance from Xanadu to Yokohama.

How to use this page

To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family AI Risk and Compliance release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Xanadu to Yokohama.

Tip:

If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release."

Important information for upgrading AI Risk and Compliance to Yokohama

Before you upgrade to Yokohama, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

New features

Between your current release family and Yokohama, new features were introduced for AI Risk and Compliance.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	AI asset lifecycle management Manage the complete life-cycle of AI assets, from selecting appropriate AI systems to developing, deploying, and monitoring AI models and datasets. This feature helps maintain a centralized inventory, confirms consistent governance practices, and improves traceability and oversight across all stages of AI development and usage. Perform impact assessment on an AI use case Perform impact assessments to identify how AI systems, models, and datasets affect fundamental rights. This feature detects potential risks, such as copyright issues, algorithmic bias, privacy breaches, misinformation, and surveillance concerns, to support better oversight and risk management. AI asset inventory risk management Identify individual and specific risks associated with AI assets, such as AI systems, models, and datasets. Perform risk assessments on each identified risk separately. AI case management Manage and track cases or incidents related to AI use cases across the organization. This feature provides a structured approach to documenting, investigating, and resolving AI-related issues and cases, supporting consistent oversight and accountability. AI framework content pack Use the default AI framework content pack to prepare a compliance-ready inventory of AI assets. The content pack provides mappings to key AI regulations and standards, such as the European Union AI Act and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF). This feature helps organizations to align AI governance activities with regulatory requirements. AI Risk and Compliance workspace See a comprehensive overview of all your AI inventory-related information in the AI Risk and Compliance workspace. The AI Risk and Compliance workspace enables you to: Identify the risk classification of AI asset inventory. Identify the compliant and noncompliant controls for authority documents and policies. View AI systems based on state and department. View the AI assessments and risk assessments information. View information related to the control attestation, indicators, AI issues, AI cases, and policy exceptions. Generate report to help leaders identify, assess, and mitigate risks. 360° Relationship Visualization of AI assets Explore the relationships between critical AI assets that impact your business, including controls, risks, and issues. Collaborate with internal users Collaborate with internal users by starting chats focused on the ethical, transparency, and accountability aspects of AI assets. Use discussions to document considerations, share feedback, and drive informed decision-making throughout the AI asset life-cycle. Roles installed The following roles related to AI Risk and Compliance for managing AI systems across the enterprise were added: AI Risk and Compliance Admin [sn_grc_ai_gov.ai_risk_and_compliance_admin]: Configure AI Risk and Compliance and delete AI systems. AI Risk and Compliance Manager [sn_grc_ai_gov.ai_risk_and_compliance_manager]: Initiate impact assessment, risk assessment, and control attestations. Manage the life cycle of the AI system. AI Risk and Compliance Analyst [sn_grc_ai_gov.ai_risk_and_compliance_analyst]: Initiate impact assessment, risk assessment, and control attestations. Manage the life cycle of the AI system. Note: AI Risk and Compliance Analyst can perform these actions only on the records assigned to them. AI Risk and Compliance User [sn_grc_ai_gov.ai_risk_and_compliance_business_user]: Create an AI case on the Employee Center and work on the assigned tasks. Perform control attestations. AI Risk and Compliance Reader [sn_grc_ai_gov.ai_risk_and_compliance_reader]: Read the AI systems and AI impact assessments.

Changes

Between your current release family and Yokohama, some changes were made to existing AI Risk and Compliance features.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Removed

Between your current release family and Yokohama, some AI Risk and Compliance features or functionality were removed.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Deprecations

Between your current release family and Yokohama, some AI Risk and Compliance features or functionality were deprecated.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Activation information

Review information on how to activate AI Risk and Compliance.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	Install AI Risk and Compliance by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.

Additional requirements

If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for AI Risk and Compliance we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Browser requirements

If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for AI Risk and Compliance we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Accessibility information

Review details on accessibility information for AI Risk and Compliance, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Localization information

If there are specific localization considerations for AI Risk and Compliance we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	No updates for this release.

Highlight information

If there are specific highlight considerations for AI Risk and Compliance we have noted them here.


Release	Release notes
Xanadu	No updates for this release.
Yokohama	Manage AI systems, models, and datasets across their entire life-cycle with consistent governance for better visibility, control, and compliance. Perform impact assessments for AI systems, models, and datasets to identify high-risk AI assets. Perform risk assessments on individual risks associated with an AI asset based on additional information and testing. Manage and oversee AI-related cases and incidents through a structured case management process. Build a compliance-ready AI asset inventory aligned with regulatory requirements using the AI framework content pack. See AI Risk and Compliance for more information.