Mortgage rules

Ten States Ask a Judge Not to Wait for the Supreme Court

Ten states told an Oregon federal court that three Supreme Court petitions will not answer whether the OCC's escrow rules are lawful, and that a pause would let banks stop paying interest on escrow balances now.

By Vasil V.·October 28, 2026·8 min read

Consumer protection

Nine Companies Have 45 Days to Explain Their Prices

The FTC ordered Walmart, Target, Uber and six other companies to show how personal data sets individual prices and gig pay, opening a record that could outlast next week's election.

By Vasil V.·October 28, 2026·8 min read

Drug policy

Six Unapproved Peptides Get a Legal Path Through the Pharmacy

HHS told the FDA not to enforce compounding rules against six unproven peptides, opening a prescription supply route that most of the agency's drug scientists opposed.

By James T.·October 28, 2026·8 min read

Medicare

Medicare's AI Prior Authorization Tied to a 15 Percent Drop in Injections

A JAMA study of the WISeR pilot in six states found epidural steroid injections fell about 15 percent and other targeted services about 20 percent, while the authors caution the data cannot show whether the care was necessary.

By James T.·October 28, 2026·8 min read

AI and corporate law

Congress Asks Delaware to Explain Its Plan for AI-Run Companies

A House Oversight letter seeks records on how a proposed corporate form run by an AI agent would allocate liability, as Delaware weighs a 30-month sandbox that critics call a shield for AI companies.

By Victoria C.·October 28, 2026·8 min read

AI policy

Australia Moves to Ban Chatbots That Simulate Intimacy

The House passed a digital duty of care bill with an amendment barring services that foster a child's emotional dependence on a chatbot, sending the measure to a contested Senate fight.

By Victoria C.·October 28, 2026·8 min read

Immigration law

A Friendly Lawsuit Ends an Immigration Rule

The Supreme Court declined to let three cities intervene, leaving a Texas-DOJ consent judgment that vacated the 2024 administrative closure rule in force nationwide.

By Victoria C.·October 28, 2026·7 min read

GLP-1 drugs

Lilly Wins the First Head-to-Head Against Ozempic

Retatrutide cut A1C by 2.2 points and weight by about 21 percent over 80 weeks, beating semaglutide in TRANSCEND-T2D-2, though the open-label design and a wider tolerability gap complicate the claim.

By James T.·October 28, 2026·8 min read

UK mortgages

Skipton Stretches Mortgage Offers to Nine Months

Skipton Building Society extended standard mortgage offer validity from six to nine months on October 27, a response to chains and legal delays rather than affordability.

By Vasil V.·October 28, 2026·7 min read

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.

By Marko P.·8 min read

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.

By Marko P.·8 min read

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.

By Marko P.·8 min read

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.

By Marko P.·8 min read

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.

By Marko P.·8 min read

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.

By Marko P.·10 min read

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.

By Marko P.·8 min read

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.

By Marko P.·8 min read

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.

By Marko P.·8 min read