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Proxy Voting
Oklahoma's Proxy Adviser Law Arrives Where Three Other States Already Lost
ISS is asking a federal court to block Oklahoma's Proxy Advisor Transparency Act before it takes effect November 1. The law requires written financial analysis for any recommendation against management, and the same model has already failed in three states.
Whistleblowers
The False Claims Act's Whistleblower Engine Survives Its Constitutional Test
An appeals court has ruled that private citizens who sue fraudsters on the government's behalf are not constitutional officers, reversing the ruling that threatened the False Claims Act's enforcement machine. The bigger fight is now headed toward the Supreme Court.
Drug Development
Europe's Biotech Act Promises Faster Trials the EU Has Never Managed
The European Commission wants clinical trial authorization cut from about 106 days to 75. The EU's first progress report on its 2030 trial targets shows why the Act exists: the continent's trial machine is running behind its own goals.
Consumer Protection
A Comparison Site Compared Two Insurers and Called It the Market
An Australian Federal Court has found comparison site Choosi misled customers by claiming to survey a range of insurers while overwhelmingly comparing policies from one. The ruling draws a legal line around the word range.
Mental Health
California Draws the Line Between an AI Assistant and a Therapist
California's pending SB 903 would ban unlicensed AI therapy and restrict how licensed professionals use AI with patients. The bill's principle is that what matters is the conduct, not what the app calls itself.
Payments
Australia's Surcharge Ban Pushes the Cost of Cards Onto Rewards Holders
From October 1 Australian businesses cannot add card surcharges, and the Reserve Bank is cutting interchange fees to pay for it. The cost is moving, not disappearing, and the first bill has landed on rewards cards.
Tech Regulation
Australia Lets Users Switch Off the Feed and the Platforms Still Choose the Default
Australia's My Feed, My Way bill would force social platforms to offer users a real choice over algorithmic feeds. The fight is not over the opt-out; it is over which feed the platform is allowed to make the default.
Antitrust
Google Keeps Its Ad Stack and Gets New Auction Rules
Judge Leonie Brinkema refused to break up Google's advertising technology and instead imposed conduct remedies, a choice rooted in one uncomfortable finding: the market moved faster than the case.
Supreme Court
The AR-15 Question Now Has a Court Date
The Supreme Court will hear consolidated challenges to assault-weapons bans in Illinois and Connecticut on December 2, and the Solicitor General has filed on the challengers' side. The argument will turn on what "common use" means.
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
Generative AI should have commoditized this category, and instead Forrester's criteria count kept climbing, because the moat was always licensed source access, not summarization.
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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