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…
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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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ComputersNews

Cougar’s new PC case has a trick I want everyone to steal

Sometimes it feels like the PC case segment moves at a snail’s pace. The most exciting development I’ve seen in years is rear-mounted connections. But Cougar’s new MX600 MAX RGB case caught my eye as a PC builder focused on utility and performance. The fans are big, and the ports are bigger. The standard ATX design bucks trends with two massive 200mm fans right on the front air intake panel.
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