Drug review

The FDA's Priority Voucher Program Is Waiting on a Commissioner

The fast-track program has awarded 22 vouchers and approved about a dozen drugs, but no new vouchers since May, a dormant oversight council, and nine reviews now back with career scientists.

By James T.·November 12, 2026·9 min read

Triglycerides

Arrowhead Files Its Triglyceride Shot for the Market Ionis Opened

Arrowhead said its severe hypertriglyceridemia application is filed and on a six-month FDA review track, setting up a 2027 launch against a competitor already selling into the same patients.

By James T.·November 12, 2026·9 min read

AI liability

AI Safety Groups Sue Five Companies to Halt New Models

The suit in San Francisco Superior Court asks a judge to bar Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceX from developing or deploying new models, citing catastrophic risks.

By Victoria C.·November 12, 2026·9 min read

Housing

HUD Tightens Immigration Checks for Public Housing and Vouchers

A final rule effective Dec. 14 requires citizenship or eligible immigration status verification for every assisted household member, regardless of age, and limits prorated aid.

By Victoria C.·November 12, 2026·9 min read

Hepatitis B

Arbutus's Hepatitis B Therapy Keeps Patients Off Treatment for Up to Three Years

The company reported 10 functional cures across its Phase 2a program and said 89% of patients who stopped nucleoside therapy remained off it for up to 146 weeks.

By James T.·November 12, 2026·9 min read

AI agents

United Blocks AI Agents From Booking Its Flights

United changed its contract of carriage to bar third-party AI agents from completing ticket transactions, citing security and federal rules, and the move hit Meta shares.

By Vasil V.·November 12, 2026·9 min read

Bladder cancer

enGene's Bladder Cancer Gene Therapy Clears a Pivotal Cohort

Detalimogene produced a 56% complete response rate at any time and a 24% landmark 12-month response in BCG-unresponsive NMIBC, and enGene plans to start a BLA by year-end.

By James T.·November 12, 2026·9 min read

Export controls

Lutnick Stalled a Chip Crackdown Trump Had Approved, Report Says

Axios reported that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick repeatedly delayed action against firms suspected of diverting Nvidia chips to China, despite Trump approving the move three times this year.

By Victoria C.·November 12, 2026·9 min read

Consumer protection

Europe Moves to Ban Dark Patterns and Subscription Traps

The European Commission proposed a Digital Fairness Act that would ban manipulative design, hidden fees, and addictive features, backed by fines of up to 6% of a company's global turnover.

By Victoria C.·November 11, 2026·9 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