Peer review is under strain from rising submissions, use of AI, reviewer shortages and integrity issues. Publishers are responding with automation, screening and new models. This report examines the pressures shaping peer review, and the changes needed to keep it scalable, credible and sustainable.
Foundation model providers will not stay horizontal. Anthropic’s launch of Claude for Legal on confirms it: twelve practice-area plugins, more than twenty MCP connectors into the incumbent legal stack, and direct deployment into the daily workflow of every law firm and in-house team.
Apollo’s acquisition and merger of Emerald Holding and Questex struck a nerve at the center of the B2B events market and changes the North American power structure. The deal also raises questions about the long-term viability of event models as the business driver for the B2B sector.
The global IP solutions market grew 8% to $4.4 billion in 2025 as agentic AI restructured the workflow layer above legacy data and software, with two-thirds of the top 20 outpacing the market. The Verification Tax will decide who keeps pricing power as Asian filings drive every global portfolio.
Requirements management and BOM-to-procurement are seeing their biggest shake-up in decades as AI-native, often agentic, startups compress or remove workflow stages that incumbent engineering software has barely modernized since the 1990s.
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2025 Engineering & Design Solutions spend reached about $93B globally, up 9% year over year. We expect 10–11% growth to continue, fuelled by rising demand for workflow platforms, greater workflow automation, and more value from integrated engineering tools.
The global Legal & Regulatory Solutions market reached $36.2B in 2025, up 10%, and accelerating. Workflow Software now exceeds half of total revenue. Clio’s $1B acquisition of vLex set the M&A benchmark. Proprietary data is the enduring moat as the Verification Tax constrains enterprise AI adoption.
Gen Zers and millennials have entered today’s modern workforce and they are poised to disrupt the B2B events model. Outsell’s survey examines Gen Z and millennial views about events and how B2B event operators must shift format, technology, and engagement strategies to meet their needs.
UpCodes’ Specifications launch marks an important turn in AEC: building codes are shifting from static reference on the periphery of projects to an AI‑mediated layer inside the specifications and project management tools.
The scholarly research market hit $27.5B in 2025, growing 3%. Growth is driven by AI, rising research output, and efficiency needs, with strong gains in OA, analytics, and authoring tools. Budget constraints limit growth, pushing vendors toward integrated, AI-driven, trust-focused solutions.
The GenAI revolution is not only disrupting media companies; it is also impacting their customers’ ability to maintain brand visibility. To help, Informa TechTarget launched two AI solutions that help suppliers navigate GenAI while showing B2B media how to use AI to generate custom content revenue.
The shift from human-facing products to agent-facing infrastructure represents the most significant distribution change in the information industry since the move from print to digital, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) sits at its foundation.
New infrastructure is emerging that enables AI companies to automatically identify, license, and pay for content before use. Three competing standards are battling for dominance, but the window to shape the new automated content licensing standards is closing.
In 2026 alone, governments worldwide are enforcing new mandates on e-invoicing, AI governance, online safety, sustainability, and cybersecurity. When governments rewrite the rules at this pace, information companies have the opportunity to create solutions that everyone will need.
The partnership between Wiley & OpenEvidence signals a competitive inflection point not only in healthcare, but across the information services industry. It goes beyond a licensing agreement and demonstrates that controlling trusted content now defines the competitive moat in AI-driven workflows.
