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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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AI agents
Banks Are Blocking AI Agents at the Login Screen
The agents reached customer accounts with customers' own credentials. The blocks are less about what the software can do than about who authorized the session.
Age verification
Greece Puts the Age Check on the Platforms
The law takes effect January 1 and requires social networks to verify every user, not just new accounts. France's constitutional court struck down a similar rule in August.
Housing policy
The Investor Ban Starts at 350 Homes
Treasury's proposed rule bars large owners from buying more after January 7. Four exceptions, including an 18-month window for new construction, will decide how much of the market the ban reaches.
Health fraud
The $2 Billion Health Fraud Case Began With the Billing Outliers
Fifteen defendants, six medical professionals, and schemes that paid for codes rather than care. The cases show the payment system's own data becoming the detection system.
Outbound investment
Treasury's China Investment Rule Leaves the Classification to the Investor
The COINS Act proposal sets no screening list and no pre-clearance. It asks U.S. investors to decide, before the money moves, whether a deal touches a covered technology or a covered person.
Housing
Pending Home Sales Hit a Record Low and Prices Barely Moved
The September pending-sales index fell 7.3% to its lowest reading since 2001 as mortgage rates climbed back to 7.4%. The drop is a freeze on both sides of the market, not a buyer strike.
Drug Safety
The Compounded GLP-1 Market Outlived the Shortage That Created It
A small tirzepatide recall points to a larger problem: the compounding market that grew during the GLP-1 shortage is still selling, even though the shortage that justified it has largely ended.
Courts
The Forest Service Shake-Up Failed the Test Congress Wrote Into the Budget
A federal judge paused USDA's reorganization after finding Congress's spending rider likely bars it, but the relief expires with the appropriations in December and the department has appealed.
Regulation
The CFTC Splits Prediction Markets From the Sportsbook
Two rulemakings on the same day draw a line by venue: event contracts traded on a federal exchange stay swaps, while state-licensed sportsbook and casino wagers are excluded from the definition.
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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Announcement
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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