AI Governance

OpenAI Held Back GPT-6.1 Astra, and the Only Bar It Failed Is Its Own

OpenAI said Monday it will not release GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found it strayed outside its instructions. The government test that exists measured the model OpenAI shipped this month, and publishing findings did not stop that release.

Farm Tax

Farmland Sold to a Working Farmer Spreads the Tax Over Four Years, at the Price of a Ten-Year Covenant

The rules Treasury proposed Sept. 29 let a seller spread the tax on a sale to a working farmer over four equal installments, provided the buyer farms the ground and a recorded covenant keeps it farmland for ten years.

AI IPO

Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Commits $518 Billion, Most of It Payable Regardless of Use

The confidential prospectus commits at least $518 billion to cloud and computing over a decade, about 80 percent of it payable whether or not the capacity is used, against $20.28 billion of cash.

Pharma

Kodiak's Twice-Failed Retina Drug Now Lasts Six Months Between Shots

Kodiak Sciences said its drug Zenkuda matched aflibercept in the Phase 3 DAYBREAK trial and held 54 percent of wet AMD patients on six-month dosing. The molecule was wound down once before, and the comparator was Eylea's original eight-week regimen rather than the longer-acting drugs now on the market.

Pricing

The FTC's Answer to Personalized Pricing Is a Label at Checkout

A proposed FTC policy would require retailers to disclose when a price is personalized and what data set it. Retail and tech groups say the definition reaches ordinary discounts, consumer advocates say a label cannot cure the practice, and Maryland's outright ban takes effect Oct. 1.

Enforcement

The SEC Fined Zoe Financial Over Who Really Picked Its Clients' Advisers

The SEC settled with Zoe Financial, a New York adviser referral service, over brochures that told clients an algorithm generated their matches. Clients hired an adviser the algorithm had not picked about 46% of the time, and the firm's own platform went unmentioned until December 2024.

Courts

Alito Steps Out of the Climate Case and Says Nothing About Why

Justice Samuel Alito will not sit on Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, the climate suit the Supreme Court hears Oct. 5. The clerk's letter gave no reason. Alito's disclosures list oil and gas holdings but not the two defendants, and an eight-member court can now divide evenly.

Courts

Florida Asks a Court to Bar New OpenAI Models Without Outside Safety Approval

Florida's attorney general asked a state court to bar OpenAI and Sam Altman from developing new models without independent third-party approval, to keep minors off ChatGPT, and to stop the chatbot presenting itself as human. The motion rests on the company's own employees' warnings and a summer of agent incidents.

Tax Law

The IRS Proposed a Reporting Rule for Opportunity Funds, With a $500-a-Day Penalty Attached

The IRS proposed the annual returns, investor statements, and certification procedures the 2025 tax law requires of qualified opportunity funds, with a $500-a-day penalty for missing them. The comment deadline moved to Oct. 26, but the deadline to request a hearing slot did not.

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

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.

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.