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Meghana Keshavan covers biotech and contributes to The Readout newsletter.

The FDA yesterday approved Eli Lilly’s weight loss pill, orforglipron. The agency is also facing renewed scrutiny over transparency gaps related to advisory committee conflicts, and its “breakthrough” label for devices is drifting toward more ambitious — but not necessarily better-validated — AI tools.

Meanwhile, Insilico Medicine is pitching AI drug discovery as a sort of asset factory rather than a means to guaranteed approval ends.

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