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The Private AI Model Explosion

George Colony March 19, 2026
In five years, 70% of the revenue created by AI will be in private models, not public ones. Why? In a word, trust.
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Turn AI Distrust Into Customer Trust — And Win The CX Future

Enza Iannopollo 4 days ago
Consumer use of AI is growing, yet their trust in it remains low. That gives organizations a unique opportunity.
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Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2026: Beyond Chat

Brian Hopkins 5 days ago
In 2026, AI leaves the chat and enters the physical world. From layer zero experiences and robotics to multi‑agent systems and quantum computing, this year’s top emerging technologies reveal how AI is reshaping interaction, infrastructure, and the foundations of the future.

Your Buyers Use AI Search — Here’s How To Stay Visible

Ninety-four percent of B2B buyers now use AI in purchasing, making traditional SEO outdated. Discover how answer engine optimization (AEO) can help your content stand out in a zero-click, AI-driven world.

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Project Glasswing: The 10 Consequences Nobody’s Writing About Yet

Jeff Pollard April 10, 2026
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos Preview prove that autonomous zero-day discovery now operates at scale. We evaluate the immediate, medium-term, and structural consequences for security teams, vendors, insurers, regulators, and future careers.
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Agentic Payments In B2C Commerce: Where We Are Now

Lily Varon April 9, 2026
The state of agentic payments is evolving rapidly. This post summarizes five key developments and provides a timeline of critical announcements since November 2025.
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CISOs Have Plenty Of Work To Do In An AI-Driven Future

Amy DeMartine April 9, 2026
As AI becomes more embedded in fundamental business processes, organizations can no longer settle for “secure enough.” Learn how AI is redefining the CISO role — and actions that they can take today.

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Salesforce’s New AgentExchange Store: Easier AI Helpers, But Still Inside Their Walled Garden

Faram Medhora 15 minutes ago
Salesforce’s re-imagined marketplace makes buying AI and applications inside Salesforce dramatically easier and makes leaving Salesforce later even harder. Salesforce has merged three separate “stores” for apps and AI tools into a single marketplace called AgentExchange. It is live now with roughly 13,000+ ready-made apps, AI agents, and automation components. The stated goal is simple: […]
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How CISOs Can Thrive Amidst Geopolitical And Economic Uncertainty

Merritt Maxim 40 minutes ago
How CISOs Can Thrive Amidst Geopolitical and Economic Uncertainty Amid escalating geopolitical conflicts, economic uncertainty, and ongoing tariff chaos, chief information security officers (CISOs) are operating in a prolonged state of uncertainty where cyberattacks have become a new component of armed conflict, expanding the attack surface just as organizations are struggling to secure AI and […]
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Tech Leaders, Brace Yourselves: AI Costs Will Only Go Up

Greg Zorella 2 hours ago
Anthropic gave leaders a blunt signal about planning for LLM charges when it introduced blended pricing for enterprise users of Claude recently. Enterprises with over 150 seatholders will now pay a blanket per-seat charge ($20 per seat at the moment), plus a variable charge based on API usage and which Claude model they’re using. When […]
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Beyond Chatbots: Designing Conversational Banking Experiences That Scale

Aurelie L'Hostis 3 hours ago
Learn how banks can scale conversational experiences at CX Summit EMEA 2026
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What the History of Ad Agencies Tells Us About CMO Power: Order-Takers to Strategic Partners—and Back Again

Keith Johnston 1 day ago
A Love Story Older Than Television The tension between CMOs and advertising agencies didn’t start with AI, procurement, or any media disruption. And history makes one thing clear: Agencies only gain power when CMOs don’t — or can’t — fully exercise theirs. It’s embedded in the very origin of the advertising agency itself. To understand […]
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Consumers Put A WBD-Paramount Merger On Probation

Mike Proulx 3 days ago
Following a dramatic and politically charged bidding process, Warner Bros. Discovery’s proposed acquisition of Paramount has entered its most consequential phase. On April 23, WBD shareholders will vote on whether to approve the deal — a decision that would further concentrate market power across film, TV, streaming, and news. At stake is the future of […]
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Introducing Forrester’s AI Model Openness Framework

Mike Gualtieri 3 days ago
Forrester’s Model Openness Framework can help you assess the real degree of openness in any AI model, whether it’s labeled open source or commercial, across three key dimensions: reproducibility, usage rights, and community momentum.
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Physical AI Matters More Than Humanoid Robots

Paul Miller 3 days ago
Paul Miller and Charlie Dai discuss the importance of physical AI to robots, autonomous vehicles, and other types of physical automation in their new Forrester research report.
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What Does It Really Take To Go From Products To Platforms?

Beth Caplow 4 days ago
For years, B2B vendors have optimized individual products — adding features, updating interfaces, creating APIs — but have found they have too many products with too much overlap, limited reach, and slower growth. Today, platforms, not standalone products, are becoming the new basis of competition, making the transition from products to platforms and portfolios more […]
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The Tightrope Walkers: Conversational AI Must Bridge Modern AI And Contact Center Reality

Max Ball 4 days ago
Learn how conversational AI vendors balance rapid innovation with trust and fit for contact centers based on the 2026 Forrester Wave™ evaluation.
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To Verticalize Or Not To Verticalize: Your GTM Climbing Guide

Barry Vasudevan 4 days ago
Verticalization is like climbing a mountain. Before you take a single step, you need clarity on the destination. Are you aiming for base camp — a lower‑commitment climb that signals relevance, gets you closer to buyers, and lets you learn the terrain with a manageable investment? Or are you preparing for the summit — committing […]
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444: Practitioner Stories: Curbing Coordination Tax At Ridepanda

The CX Cast 4 days ago
Growth makes coordination of customer problems harder – whatever your product. If your product is physical, the journey is daily, and customers are forming new habits, the “coordination tax” can erode both customer and employee experiences. In this episode, CX Cast co-host Angelina Gennis speaks with Cassidy Grace, CX Manager at Ridepanda about what it […]

Build A Security Org For The Future

Download our guide to help CISOs prove business value, win budget, and reduce burnout. Use our actionable framework to align security with enterprise goals, justify funding, and lead a high-performing team.

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AI Search Will Crack The Foundation Of B2B Marketing’s Accountability Model

Ross Graber 5 days ago
B2B marketers have long relied on engagement metrics to demonstrate marketing’s value. AI is making this practice untenable.
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Americans Feel Miserable. Why Do They Keep Spending?

Dipanjan Chatterjee 5 days ago
Consumer confidence languishes near historic lows, surveys drip with despair, and media narratives fixate on fragility. And yet, consumers open their wallets, and corporate profits roll in. This is not a passing contradiction. It is the defining paradox of today’s “pessimism economy.” Our new research — Down But Not Out: Growth Strategies For The Pessimism […]
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Volatility Isn’t Temporary — Account For It In Your Leadership Playbook Going Forward

Matthew Selheimer 6 days ago
For many B2B leaders, volatility no longer feels like an interruption to “normal.” It is now the standard operating environment. Economic uncertainty, geopolitical shocks, AI-driven disruption, and shifting buyer behavior are colliding, exposing weaknesses in traditional go-to-market models and leadership assumptions. The good news? Volatility can benefit those who adapt faster, focus harder, and lead […]
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Stop Pretending 2026 Will “Stabilize” — Continue To Build For Volatility

Fiona Swerdlow 6 days ago
If marketing, CX, and digital leaders have learned anything in the past year, it’s mastering the art of finessing how to plan and execute — for growth! — under highly fluid conditions. Since we first published Forrester’s Leading Through Volatility series a year ago, consumer leaders have steered their organizations through rapid evolution across geopolitical events, technology (hello, agentic commerce and artificial general intelligence), role evolution (good to meet you, AI CMO), and consumer sentiment.
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Measure The Business Value Of Data And Analytics Investments

Boris Evelson 6 days ago
To advance data‑driven transformation, enterprises need structured approaches that clearly link analytics initiatives to business outcomes and communicate impact consistently. Yet most enterprises still lack mature, repeatable practices for measuring and communicating the value of enterprise investments in data and analytics. That leaves the business impact of these investments unclear. And because direct causation is […]

Build The Technology Strategy You Always Wanted

Use this framework and IT strategy-on-a-page template to align stakeholders, define your vision, and build an action plan for your technology strategy.

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It’s Time To End Disconnected GTM Efforts

Rick Bradberry 6 days ago
Growth is hard. It’s even harder when leaders are too slow to transform their go-to-market (GTM) approaches. And that’s where things are now. GTM efforts look fine on paper. There is a strategy and a plan. Budgets and headcounts are approved. Activity is high. But below the surface, there is no connected GTM approach, and everyone feels the impact. Buyers feel […]
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The Forrester Wave™: Intranet Platforms, Q2 2026 — Our Evaluation Of 13 Key Vendors

Cheryl McKinnon 6 days ago
The Forrester Wave™: Intranet Platforms, Q2 2026 published on April 9. I conducted an in-depth analysis of 13 vendors and evaluated their platforms across 28 criteria (which included 21 criteria for current offering and seven for strategy). This assessment resulted in four Leaders, six Strong Performers, and three Contenders. Here’s A Few Things That Jumped […]
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Cyber Risk Ratings Fade Out; Actionable Intelligence Takes The Spotlight

Paul McKay 6 days ago
In musical notation, “al niente” means fading until sound is barely perceptible, usually to end a significant piece of music such as the ending of Tchaikovsky’s reflective and somber sixth symphony. And that is how the cybersecurity risk ratings market is likely to proceed over the coming months. Ratings will not fade away to nothing […]
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