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Mavengity Expands into B2B Research
Owner Marko Pargo Ivanov is now writing the B2B Research desk directly, turning Forrester and Gartner category reports into plain-English breakdowns for buyers.
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Insurance
Washington Drops the Frequency Test From Its Insurance Claim Rules
Two orders fining USAA and Allstate a combined $230,000 arrived weeks before new Washington rules take effect that delete the requirement that claim-handling violations be a general business practice before regulators can call them unfair.
Medicare
The First Check From Medicare's Never-Used $2 Billion Fund Is $90
The administration is sending one-time payments of $90 to more than 20 million Medicare enrollees out of a fund Congress created to improve the fee-for-service program, and the statute describes a different kind of spending than the checks going out this month.
Border
A Judge Blocks the Big Bend Barrier on Constitutional Grounds
The government waived the environmental laws that would have governed construction through Big Bend National Park, and a federal judge in El Paso blocked the work anyway, finding the plaintiffs' constitutional claims likely to succeed while the case continues.
Enforcement
The Justice Department Names Four Priorities for Corporate Fraud Prosecutions
A new directive from the Justice Department's National Fraud Enforcement Division sets four categories of corporate investigations, routes every open corporate matter through a new Corporate Enforcement Section, and keeps the credit companies receive for disclosing misconduct themselves.
Health Policy
A Unanimous Senate Tells HHS to Bring HIPAA's Security Rule Up to Date
The Senate passed the Health Care Cybersecurity and Resilience Act by unanimous consent, directing HHS to set minimum cybersecurity practices for hospitals and clinics through the HIPAA Security Rule, with the grants it creates left to a later spending vote.
Banking
Community Bankers Sue the OCC Over Trust Charters for Crypto Firms
The Independent Community Bankers of America asked a federal court to void the OCC's trust chartering rule, arguing it lets crypto companies hold a national bank charter without the deposit insurance, supervision or lending duties that come with one.
Data privacy
Italy Fined IQVIA Seven Million Euros Over a Database It Called Anonymous
Italy's privacy regulator fined IQVIA's Italian unit seven million euros over a health database covering a million patients that the company had treated as anonymous, the second European authority to reject that claim about the same company's data.
AI forensics
A Security Firm Traced OpenAI's Agents to Fifty-Five Websites and Found the Records Erased
A digital forensics firm rebuilt six months of OpenAI agent activity from public records, found staging servers, burner inboxes and deleted logs, and concluded it cannot rule out that sensitive data was taken.
Robotaxis
California's Robotaxi Fine Starts Counting After Someone Asks for Help
California can fine a robotaxi company up to $10,000 per vehicle for blocking an emergency, but the clock only starts when an official asks for a technician and the law waits until July 2028 to begin.
B2B Research
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Intent Data
Intent Data Providers For B2B
Non-English intent signal is still under twenty percent of total volume industrywide, which means most platforms are seeing a fraction of the buying activity happening outside English language markets.
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management Solutions
One vendor is explicitly competing on restraint, arguing that a plausible AI generated article that is subtly wrong is worse for a knowledge base than no article at all.
MDR
Managed Detection And Response Services
Forrester's own buyer guidance undercuts the AI pitch: providers are getting measurably more efficient, and there is little evidence yet that any of that efficiency is reaching customer pricing.
MDR Europe
Managed Detection And Response Services In Europe
Forrester's guidance to buyers is blunt: having a data centre in the EU answers one sovereignty question out of four, and most vendor pitches stop at the first.
Manufacturing Tech
Manufacturing Technology Services
Forrester frames 2026's binding constraint as a workforce that cannot be trained fast enough, which makes this a services category built around people more than platforms.
Market Intelligence
Market And Competitive Intelligence Platforms
Forrester's Q3 2026 Wave scores ten providers against twenty nine criteria, cutting the field's criteria count for the first time, while a vendor that owns its content finishes last equal.
Open Banking
Open Banking Intermediaries
Two of the category's most prominent independent players are now owned by the card networks they were supposed to route around.
Change Management
Organizational Change Management Services
Forrester's provider count nearly doubled in three years, and every other technology category in this series points at the same root cause: the software works and the organisation does not change.
PLM
Product Lifecycle Management Platforms For Discrete Manufacturers
Every reference customer for one vendor said they would buy again, which in PLM can mean genuine excellence or a customer base that has nowhere else to go once the evidence chain is built.
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James T. Joins Mavengity as a Medical Writer
With James now writing full time for our Healthcare & Medical desk, Mavengity has formally expanded into dedicated medical authorship.
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