Editor’s Note: May 2026 delivered 235 HSR premerger notifications — a fiscal year 2026 high, the strongest month since December 2021, and a 58.8 percent jump over May 2025. This update tracks a filing pipeline running 22.2 percent ahead of last fiscal year against an economy that grew just 1.6 percent in the first quarter,…

Editor’s Note: The demand-side context underneath the eDiscovery market is, in the end, one number with one trajectory: global data volume rises from approximately 181 zettabytes in 2025 to approximately 812 zettabytes in 2030 – roughly 35 percent compounded annually. Enterprise data tracks that same trajectory, scaling from approximately 54 zettabytes to approximately 243 zettabytes…

Editor’s Note: A Russian drone hit a building at a spent-nuclear-fuel storage site inside Ukraine’s Chornobyl exclusion zone on June 7, with no radiation release reported, and the same 48 hours saw NATO jets down a jammed drone over Latvia, oil terminals burn from long-range strikes, and a rail locomotive knocked out by an aerial…

Editor’s Note: Britain just turned its AI ambitions into a spending commitment. On the opening day of London Tech Week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a lineup of global technology firms pledged billions toward sovereign compute, domestic data centers and AI skills, with AMD, Nebius and the UK government alone accounting for upward of £4…

Editor’s Note: Professional buyers are quietly handing the first step of vendor selection to chatbots, and that single behavior change is upending two decades of online visibility practice. A March 2026 Wall Street Journal piece called AI optimization the next chapter of SEO; a fast-spreading rebuttal argues that the change may be more significant, with…

Editor’s Note: A self-replicating worm has turned the AI coding assistant into a delivery mechanism, and the same campaign just forced one of the larger takedowns the open-source supply chain has seen. On June 5, GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repositories after the Miasma campaign re-compromised Azure’s durabletask project, per OpenSourceMalware. In separate source-repository compromises, researchers…

Editor’s Note: Across 18 years, the composition of where eDiscovery dollars get spent across the three core tasks has fundamentally rebalanced. The RAND Corporation’s foundational 2012 study, Where the Money Goes, placed review at 73 percent of total task spend, processing at 19 percent, and collection at 8 percent. By 2025, the reconciled view places…

Editor’s Note: Training-data provenance has become a productized sales argument in enterprise AI, and Microsoft moved early and explicitly to make it one. At Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2, the company unveiled seven in-house MAI models led by MAI-Thinking-1, its first dedicated reasoning model, and paired the technical launch with a direct…

Editor’s Note: Most eDiscovery work is bought directly by the buyer. Reconciled estimates place worldwide direct spending captured by corporations and governments at approximately $14.12 billion in 2025 – 72 percent of the worldwide market – and project growth to $18.81 billion by 2030. Law firms capture approximately $2.94 billion in 2025, climbing to $4.77…

Editor’s Note: Anthropic on Tuesday expanded Project Glasswing beyond its roughly 50 initial partners, extending access to a new cohort of approximately 150 organizations in more than 15 countries. The restricted Claude Mythos Preview offensive-security model has already surfaced more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities, according to Anthropic. The expansion lands one day after…

Editor’s Note: Non-government demand pulls ahead in the worldwide eDiscovery market across 2025-2030. Reconciled estimates place non-government spending at approximately $11.18 billion in 2025 – 57 percent of the worldwide market – and project growth to $16.85 billion by 2030. Government and regulatory spending grows from $8.43 billion to $11.23 billion across the same period.…

Editor’s Note: The eDiscovery market remains an American market through 2030, but the international share of worldwide spending is gradually rising. Reconciled estimates place U.S. spending at approximately $12.94 billion in 2025 – 66 percent of the worldwide market – and project growth to $17.97 billion by 2030. Rest-of-world spending grows from $6.67 billion to…

Editor’s Note: The eDiscovery cloud software category is rebalancing across 2025-2030. Reconciled estimates place worldwide cloud spending at approximately $5.29 billion in 2025 – 79 percent of the software segment – and project growth to $8.87 billion in 2030 at a reconciled compound annual rate of 10.93 percent. Inside the cloud category, SaaS holds approximately…