MobileNews

Google Adds Google Photos Integration for Personalised Image Creation in Gemini

Google has announced Personalised Image Creation in Gemini where it now uses your Google Photos library and goes through your interests to create an image of yourself instead of you having to write long detailed prompts. Here’s how the feature works. Google is using Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature “to create more relevant, personal images using Nano Banana and your own Google Photos…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

Anthropic announced on Friday that it’s launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude. The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily. With Claude Design, users describe what they want, and Claude…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

North America just got its first new kind of lithium refinery

Mangrove Lithium has opened what it says is North America’s first commercial electrochemical lithium refinery, a 1,000-tonne-per-year plant in Delta, British Columbia, aimed at strengthening the continent’s EV battery supply chain. The new site – known as the Single Stack Plant (SSP) – is Mangrove’s first commercial lithium-refining facility and its new headquarters. The company marked…
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DefenseNews

Australia refines its defense strategy and investment plan

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Australia issued updates for two pivotal planning documents this week – its National Defence Strategy 2026 and Integrated Investment Program 2026 – while simultaneously promising a boost in defense spending. Defence Minister Richard Marles…
DefenseNews

‘Actively shrinking’: Guard generals push Congress for 100 new fighters a year

The nation’s Air National Guard adjutants general are making their most unified push yet to recapitalize the U.S. Air Force’s fighter fleet, with 22 generals signing a letter to Congress this month calling for multiyear funding to buy between 72 and 100 new fighters annually. The letter, sent April 1 to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Appropriations committees and their…
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