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Today’s Menu

• Microsoft Just Made Cancer Analysis Radically Cheaper

• Bitcoin Liquidates $260M in Shorts Before Fed Meeting

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TODAY IN AI

Microsoft Just Made Cancer Analysis Radically Cheaper

Microsoft released and open-sourced GigaTIME, a new AI model that can extract thousands of dollars worth of tumor insights from a basic $10 tissue slide. Analysis that previously required expensive lab work and days of processing.

The model learned from 40 million cell samples provided by Providence Health, matching simple slides with advanced immune system scans. Researchers tested it on over 14,000 cancer patients, creating a virtual library of 300,000 detailed tumor images across 24 different cancer types.

The virtual population analysis surfaced over 1,200 patterns linking immune activity to factors like cancer stage and patient survival.

Cancer research is entering a new phase where AI can unearth meaningful insights from routine data that would have required costly, time-intensive lab work just years ago. GigaTIME is part of an AI-led shift towards models that make population-scale analysis affordable and fast enough to influence treatment decisions.

When you can turn a $10 tissue slide into thousands of dollars worth of analysis using AI, that's not incremental improvement. That's democratizing access to advanced cancer diagnostics.

TODAY IN CRYPTO

Bitcoin Liquidates $260M in Shorts Before Fed Meeting

Bitcoin briefly turned positive for the year on Tuesday, surging past $94,000 and dragging the entire market up with it. ETH reclaimed $3,300 for the first time in a month. SOL and DOGE jumped over 8%. Over $260 million in short positions got liquidated in just four hours.

The timing isn't coincidence. This happened one day before the Fed's December meeting, where a 0.25% rate cut is almost fully priced in.

But the cut itself isn't the story. Everyone already knows it's coming. What matters is what Powell says about the path forward. If he signals fewer cuts ahead, the odds of a Santa rally drop fast.

But analysts aren't calling this a bear market yet. Kevin Hassett, ultra-dovish and likely Powell's replacement next year, could flip sentiment from depression to euphoria in early 2026. Add in the Market Structure bill gaining momentum on Capitol Hill and growing institutional adoption, and the thesis hasn't broken. It's just delayed.

What's more interesting is the structure of the move. For weeks, Bitcoin has bled during U.S. trading hours. Tuesday flipped that script.

K33 Research noted positioning on derivatives markets was deeply defensive with investors bracing for more pain, exactly the kind of crowded short setup that snaps violently when sellers exhaust.

The Coinbase premium also turned positive over the past few days, signaling U.S. buyers are back. The OCC dropped a clarification on Tuesday: national banks can now engage in riskless principal crypto transactions, acting as intermediaries without holding inventory.

A small step, but another brick in the regulatory foundation.

Bitcoin is back at $92,700 at the time of writing. The short squeeze added momentum, but the real question is whether this marks seller exhaustion or just another bounce in a structural reset. The Fed decides tomorrow. Powell's tone will set the next leg.

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