Microsoft's AI maps tumors in seconds

PLUS: OpenAI and Anthropic unite, and Google challenges Nvidia's chip dominance

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December 11, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes

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Microsoft has released a new AI model that can map tumors in mere seconds using basic tissue slides. The new tool, GigaTIME, dramatically reduces a process that once took days and thousands of dollars to complete.

By analyzing millions of cell samples to find new patterns linking immune activity to cancer outcomes, the technology makes large-scale analysis more accessible. Could this new speed and lower cost accelerate the development of personalized cancer treatments?

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  • Microsoft's new AI maps tumors in seconds

  • OpenAI and Anthropic unite for AI agents

  • Google and Amazon challenge Nvidia’s chip dominance

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What’s new? Microsoft has open-sourced GigaTIME, a new AI model that creates detailed tumor maps from inexpensive tissue slides in seconds, a task that previously took days and cost thousands.

What matters?

  • The model trained on 40M cell samples from Providence Health, learning to connect basic tissue slides with advanced immune system scans.

  • Researchers used it to build a virtual library of 300,000 detailed tumor images from over 14,000 patients, covering 24 different cancer types.

  • This large-scale analysis revealed over 1,200 patterns that connect immune cell activity with cancer stage and patient survival rates.

Why it matters?

GigaTIME demonstrates how AI can extract critical insights from routine, low-cost data that previously required expensive and slow lab work. This shift makes large-scale cancer analysis more accessible, paving the way for faster and more personalized treatment strategies.

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What’s new? In a rare move, rivals OpenAI and Anthropic have partnered with Block and the Linux Foundation to launch the Agentic AI Foundation, an initiative to build open standards for the next wave of AI agents.

What matters?

  • Each partner contributed core technology to the effort, including Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), OpenAI's AGENTS.md standard, and Block's open-source Goose framework.

  • The initiative arrives as enterprise spending on generative AI is projected to hit $37B in 2025, a massive leap from $11.5B in 2024, according to a new report.

  • The foundation aims to prevent vendor lock-in by creating an "open integration center," allowing developers to build a tool once and use it across any model or client.

Why it matters?

This collaboration signals a crucial shift toward creating a standardized, open ecosystem for building AI agents. An open foundation fosters broader innovation and prevents a future where developers are locked into a few proprietary platforms.

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What’s new? Nvidia's long-held dominance in the AI chip market is being challenged, as Google and Amazon reveal their powerful, cost-effective in-house chips are now major players in the space.

What matters?

  • Nvidia currently commands over 90% of the AI chip market, with its staggering revenue growth transforming it from a gaming chip company into a $4.5 trillion AI giant.

  • Google demonstrated it can build top-tier models without Nvidia, training its Gemini 3 Pro model entirely on its own in-house TPUs that can slash model inference costs by up to 65%.

  • Not to be outdone, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed its competing chip business is already worth billions, with its new Trainium3 chip being 4x faster than the previous generation.

Why it matters?

This growing competition in the chip market could significantly lower hardware costs and give developers more options for training and running AI models. The era of a single dominant supplier is ending as major tech players build their own custom silicon to power the future of AI.

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Google updated its experimental Mixboard and Doppl tools, using Gemini 3 to power AI presentation generation and create digital models for virtually trying on clothes.

NVIDIA received conditional approval to sell its H200 AI chips in China, requiring sales go to "approved customers" and that the US government receives a 25% cut of the revenue.

Menlo Ventures found that product-led growth drives 27% of enterprise AI adoption, nearly 4x the rate of traditional SaaS, showing a fundamental shift in how companies are buying AI tools.

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