Claude Launches 'Claude Design' for Visuals, Gemini Comes to Waze

Claude launches a new design tool with voice and video, while Gemini brings its AI chat to the Waze navigation app.

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ClaudeA new tool called Claude Design helps you create visual work.

Claude

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You can now use a new tool called Claude Design to create visual things like prototypes, slides, and designs.

Frontier design: Anyone can build code-powered prototypes with voice, video, shaders, 3D and built-in AI. Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.

Over the coming weeks, we'll make it easier to build integrations with Claude Design, so you can connect it to more…

Over the coming weeks, we'll make it easier to build integrations with Claude Design, so you can connect it to more of the tools your team already uses.

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The new design tool lets you use your voice and work with video and 3D elements to bring your ideas to life.

Adobe for creativity enables users to bring images, videos, and designs to life, drawing from 50+ tools across Creative Cloud apps including Photoshop, Premiere, Express, and more. Affinity by Canva automates repetitive production tasks across pro creative workflows - such as batch image adjustments, layer renaming, and file export - and generates custom features directly in the app.

Enabling rapid exploration a…

Enabling rapid exploration and handoff: Claude Design is a new product from Anthropic Labs that can be used to explore ideas for software experiences.

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For users in India, the app now shows pricing in the local currency, Indian Rupees.

Local pricing has begun to appear for some users in India on Claude’s website and mobile apps. However, Anthropic has yet to enable payments via the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India’s widely used instant payments network.

On Claude’s website in India, Anthropic is listing Claude Pro at ₹2,000 (about $21) a month when billed annually, compared with $17 a month in the U.S. Claude Max starts at ₹11…

On Claude’s website in India, Anthropic is listing Claude Pro at ₹2,000 (about $21) a month when billed annually, compared with $17 a month in the U.S. Claude Max starts at ₹11,999 (around $125) a month in India, versus $100 in the U.S., w…

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Gemini

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Google's navigation app, Waze, now uses Gemini to help you find your way.

Some of the new features are powered by Google’s Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant’s broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps. The ability to find your destination with Gemini capabilities is rolling out now to the Waze beta community globally on Android and iOS.

You can now use your voice to have a chat with Waze to find a destination, like asking for a nearby coffee shop that's open.

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Perplexity

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Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

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ChatGPT

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“Rotten to its core.” Leave it to Apple to work a rotten fruit analogy into its criticism of OpenAI’s behavior in this case.

“Didn’t even know we could take those from the office.” One of the wilder allegations is that OpenAI job candidates working at Apple were directed by OpenAI chief hardware offi…

“Didn’t even know we could take those from the office.” One of the wilder allegations is that OpenAI job candidates working at Apple were directed by OpenAI chief hardware officer Tang Yew Tan, who spent 24 years at Apple, most recently as…

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The AI model maker is rumored to be working on a hardware device to challenge the iPhone, potentially a smartphone…

“Didn’t even know we could take those from the office.” One of the wilder allegations is that OpenA…

Original reportingThe 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAIRead original ↗

Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

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