Private markets

SEC says a pre-IPO fund adviser promised SpaceX share distributions after the shares were gone

The SEC says Meyer Global Management raised $18.5 million from nearly 100 investors across single-company pre-IPO funds, missed a $46,020 capital call that cost one fund its SpaceX stake, and diverted $686,636 from money owed to investors.

By Vasil V.·September 30, 2026·8 min read

Tax policy

Treasury starts opening Trump accounts for eligible children on October 1

Temporary rules effective September 30 make the Treasury Secretary, not a parent, the party who elects to open a Trump account, and the first round of automatic enrollments begins October 1.

By Vasil V.·September 30, 2026·8 min read

Policing

The Longest-Running Police Monitorship in U.S. History Ends in Oakland

Judge William Orrick ended 23 years of federal oversight of the Oakland Police Department, handing authority over discipline and policy to a city commission that answered to no federal judge.

By Victoria C.·September 30, 2026·7 min read

Drug Supply

Counterfeit Ozempic Kept Moving After the FDA's Warning

Two men are charged with running counterfeit Ozempic from Chinese suppliers into U.S. distributors, a scheme prosecutors say continued after the FDA seized fakes and warned the public.

By James T.·September 30, 2026·7 min read

Courts

The Full D.C. Circuit Weighs Whether a Judge Can Investigate the Executive

The Justice Department asked the en banc court to shut down Judge James Boasberg's contempt investigation into the March 2025 deportation flights. Several judges treated the request as a claim that courts answer to the executive branch.

By Victoria C.·September 30, 2026·7 min read

AI Governance

Six AI Companies Agree to Police Themselves Under a White House Accord

The White House accord asks frontier labs to build internal controls, hire outside auditors and report to their own boards, and leaves every operative word undefined.

By Victoria C.·September 30, 2026·7 min read

Cell therapy

Immix Priced a $125 Million Offering on an 89 Percent Response Rate

Immix's registrational study of NXC-201 shows an 89 percent complete response rate in relapsed AL amyloidosis, and the company raised $125 million the same day to fund what comes next.

By James T.·September 30, 2026·8 min read

Rare disease

Dyne's One-Year DM1 Data Land on the Endpoint Novartis Just Missed

Z-basivarsen improved hand myotonia and function against a matched natural history cohort at 12 months, and the endpoint carrying its accelerated approval is the one that just failed for the field's biggest program.

By James T.·September 30, 2026·8 min read

Antivirals

Invivyd Wants Its COVID Antibody Approved on Titers, Not Outcomes

Invivyd's Phase 3 study shows VYD2311 is better tolerated than an mRNA COVID vaccine, and the approval case it supports will rest on antibody levels rather than proof that the drug prevents illness.

By James T.·September 30, 2026·8 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