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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.
Clinical Trials
The Lp(a) Hypothesis Just Lost Its First Big Test
Novartis reported that pelacarsen failed its cardiovascular outcomes trial, the first major test of whether lowering lipoprotein(a) prevents heart attacks and strokes. The class is not dead, but the theory now needs a new proof.
Proxy Voting
SEC Moves to See the Client Votes Behind ISS Advice
The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking a federal court to force proxy adviser ISS to export four years of client voting data, a records fight that turns on whether proxy advice is protected speech or regulated work.
IPO
Anthropic's IPO Waits on Its Own Bankers
The AI company's listing has slipped to days before the midterm elections, and the stated reason is sequencing: a $15 billion credit facility must close before the prospectus can, with the same four banks on both.
Copyright
Two More Newspapers Sue OpenAI While Washington Sides With OpenAI
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a copyright and DMCA suit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the same week the Justice Department told a Manhattan court that AI training is fair use.
Coverage
North Carolina Covers GLP-1s in Medicaid but Not for Teachers
Two state programs reached opposite answers on weight-loss drug coverage, and the difference traces to who writes the check: the General Fund for Medicaid, the health plan's own budget for teachers and state employees.
Labor Law
The Farmworker Wage Rule Survived in One Piece and Died in Three
A federal judge upheld only the survey switch in the Labor Department's H-2A wage rewrite and struck down the tiering, the housing deduction, and the reasoning behind them, leaving employers facing possible back pay.
Data Privacy
One Compromised Account Cost a French Hospital 727,000 Patient Records
France's data regulator fined a Saint-Étienne private hospital €500,000 after an attacker used a single doctor's account to drain its patient record system, and the findings read like a checklist the sector has ignored for years.
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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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