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News articleNasdaq· June 26, 2026

Weekly Buzz: IONS, MRK Get FDA Approvals; ACHV Gets CRL; ADCT Cuts Jobs; TECH Acquired

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  • The workforce reduction is projected to deliver $10 million in annualised cost savings.

    60% confidence

  • ADC Therapeutics maintains a cash runway into 2028, supporting ongoing regulatory and clinical plans for ZYNLONTA combinations.

    60% confidence

  • DT120 ODT was generally well tolerated, with no serious adverse events or suicidality signal.

    60% confidence

  • Merck KGaA expects to realise annual cost savings of approximately 140 million euros by the third year following the Bio-Techne deal closure.

    60% confidence

  • The company plans to resubmit the Cytisinicline NDA in Q4 2026, targeting a potential approval in H1 2027 if no further major issues arise.

    60% confidence

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Late-September 2026 brought a dense run of clinical readouts: Novo Nordisk's CagriSema data at EASD, Lilly's ADtouch results for EBGLYSS, and Merck's tulisokibart Phase 2b result. Lilly's $2.9B Merida Biosciences acquisition and the 2026-11-14 FDA PDUFA date for ivonescimab sit alongside these as the main deal and regulatory events. AI-designed drugs such as rentosertib, and speculative AI-linked trial ventures such as QAIAx, are moving from hype toward clinical validation. Broader AI-sector regulatory and legal friction (Tesla Cybercab probe, xAI Minnesota ruling, OpenAI lawsuits) shows rising scrutiny that could spill into AI-driven healthcare.
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Apple Inc.
The observation date (2025-12-27) precedes Q1 2026, making it logically impossible to have actual Q1 2026 cash data at that point. Q1 2026 would not end until March 31, 2026. Additionally, the magnitude of the difference ($45.3B vs $132.42) is implausibly large even as a normal quarterly change for Apple. While different fiscal periods can show different values, the timing relationship here suggests a data integrity issue rather than legitimate period-over-period variation.
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