AI spots hidden cancer patterns

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🔬 AI finds hidden patterns in breast cancer

👀How to go from idea to app to first 100 users using Claude Pro

💻 Slack turns channels into coding rooms

🔨Tools and shifts you cannot miss

🔬 AI finds hidden patterns in breast cancer

Researchers have used AI to examine breast tumors at the cellular level, uncovering two distinct centrosome abnormalities that appear to relate differently to how the disease progresses.

The Shift:

1. AI Examines Cells Individually - The University of Northampton team used CenSegNet to analyze 911 samples from 27 patients, studying centrosomes that normally help cells divide correctly.

2. Two Cancer Patterns Emerged - The AI distinguished between oversized centrosomes and extra centrosomes. Previously difficult to separate at scale, the two abnormalities showed different relationships with how breast cancer behaves.

3. Linked to Patient Outcomes - Patients tended to survive longer when tumors contained fewer oversized centrosomes, while additional centrosomes were associated with more aggressive disease.

4. Could Help Guide Treatment  - Researchers now want to combine these cellular patterns with other patient data to help inform treatment decisions. CenSegNet is open-source and is also being tested on other tissues.

Instead of treating centrosome abnormalities as one signal, AI revealed that different types may carry different clinical meaning, potentially giving researchers a more precise view of how breast cancer progresses.

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👀How to go from idea to app to first 100 users using Claude Pro

Claude Pro costs $20/month and includes access to all models, Claude Code, Cowork, and Claude Design. That is your entire toolset for this. Total cost to start: $20.

Step 1: Find your profitable app idea - Open Claude and paste this prompt:

"Interview me to find one profitable app idea I can actually build and sell. Ask me about my daily frustrations, things I repeatedly pay for, skills I already have, and problems I see people around me complaining about. Ask one question at a time. After 10 questions, recommend the single strongest app idea based on my answers, with a clear target customer, a monetization model, and why someone would pay for it today."

Answer honestly. The quality of the idea depends entirely on the specificity of your answers.

Step 2: Build and launch the app - Once you have your idea, paste this prompt:

"Build me a complete, working [app name] for [target customer]. It needs [core feature from your idea]. Use the simplest possible stack that can go live today. Give me the full code, a free hosting option, and step by step instructions to get it live in under two hours."

Claude builds it inside the conversation using Claude Code. Deploy to Vercel, Railway, or Replit, all have free tiers. Domain optional at this stage.

Step 3: Get your first 100 users - Once the app is live, paste this prompt:

"My app is [name]. It does [one sentence]. My target customer is [from Step 1]. Give me the exact 30-day plan to get my first 100 paying users with zero ad budget. Include specific communities to post in, exact post copy, and a follow-up sequence for anyone who tries it."

Claude returns a community-by-community outreach plan with ready-to-use copy, Reddit threads, Facebook groups, niche Discords, and direct outreach scripts.

Total cost: $20. Total time from idea to live: one weekend.

💻 Slack turns channels into coding rooms

Slack has launched Slack Code, bringing AI-powered software development directly into team conversations. Instead of coding happening separately, teammates can now build alongside AI agents inside shared Slack channels.

The Shift:

1. Everyone Can Join the Build - Each code channel brings developers, other teammates, and AI agents together. Anyone involved can steer the project, contribute instructions, and watch live previews as the software takes shape.

2. AI Does the Coding - Connected agents can write and modify the software while humans direct the session. ChatGPT, Claude, Devin, Vercel, and GitHub are among the integrations available after connection.

3. Humans Control Deployment - AI agents can build the project, but they cannot deploy changes without human approval, keeping the final decision with the team.

4. Every Build Leaves a Record - Once work finishes, the channel becomes an archived, searchable record of the project, preserving the instructions, discussions, and decisions that produced the final software.

Slack Code turns AI coding from a mostly individual workflow into a collaborative one, where entire teams can direct agents, inspect what they're building, and approve what ultimately ships.

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🔨AI Tools for the Shift

🖥️ Local – Runs private AI entirely on your Mac for chat, coding agents, and meeting notes, with no cloud, accounts, or data leaving your device.

📝 ProtoNote – Share AI-built prototypes and collect feedback pinned directly to the exact part of the page reviewers are talking about.

👗 Revy – Creates an ownership layer for your wardrobe, fashion purchases, and shopping so your clothing history becomes more useful after checkout.

📱 bitdrift.ai – Uses agentic AI to investigate mobile app telemetry and observability data, helping teams diagnose production problems faster.

🤖 Cloudways Managed AI Agents – Lets businesses run managed AI agents without handling the underlying infrastructure, deployment, and setup themselves.

🚀Quick Shifts

🤖 Google Discover gets AI feed controls. Google will let users describe what they want to see through a chatbot-style interface, with Discover remembering those preferences and automatically reshaping future recommendations. 

💬 ChatGPT can now use Apple Messages. On Apple silicon Macs, ChatGPT can search iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations, catch you up on chats, draft replies, and send messages after approval.

🎵 Adobe opens its AI audio tools. Firefly’s Generate Music, Speech, and Sound Effects are now generally available, while its AI Assistant gets a free tier with daily generations. 

📈 OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users. Ramp data from 70,000+ U.S. businesses shows Anthropic still leads at nearly 44% share, but OpenAI is growing faster in Q3 as GPT-5.6 Sol gains developer adoption. 

💰 Meta has quietly become one of Microsoft’s biggest AI customers. Despite spending billions on its own AI infrastructure, Meta reportedly pays Microsoft hundreds of millions yearly for Azure, consuming trillions of AI tokens every week.

🤳What’s trending on socials

🤖 Humanoid Robot Crashes During Training - A humanoid robot training for Beijing’s “Robot Olympics” sprinted too fast, failed to stop, slammed into a safety cushion, and broke dramatically at the waist. Watch it here. 

🤯 Grok Built His 10-Year Idea in 15 Minutes - With zero app-building experience, a creator used Grok to turn every Trump post into a searchable, fully sourced book with 47 chapters and 250+ lessons.

😬 Google’s AI Overviews Are Giving Different Safety Advice by Nationality - Viral searches show Google warning users about potential danger for some racial or national groups, while treating others as ordinary encounters. Google says the inconsistent results are wrong and it’s working on fixes. 

🤖 Grok bot is being turned into a digital chief of staff - One viral setup connects Grok Bot to X, Stripe, and GitHub, then uses specialized agents to research content, ship software, and run business workflows with human approval. 

🤖 Grok bot turns one founder into an eight-agent company - One setup uses an org chart of specialized bots for research, content, outbound, inbox, and analytics, with a chief-of-staff agent delegating work and escalating only irreversible decisions.

🤳AI Shift of the Day

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