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2026

  • AbbVie buys Apogee for $11B as pharma's $123B deal wave rolls on
    AbbVie agreed to acquire Apogee Therapeutics for nearly $11 billion, the latest in a pharma M&A wave that has totaled $123 billion in 2026 deals so far. Definium's LSD therapy met its primary endpoint in a Phase 3 trial for major depression, and the FDA reversed a four-month-old rejection of Regenxbio's gene therapy for Hunter syndrome. In AI, Samsung deployed ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees worldwide in one of OpenAI's largest enterprise rollouts, while Nathan Lambert and Kevin Xu argued that banning open-source AI would damage US interests. Patrick Boyle examined how SpaceX humiliated Wall Street and Cuba announced its most sweeping economic reforms in decades, including private banking and the end of fuel subsidies.
    Jun 22, 2026
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