Good Morning! Anthropic just dropped a massive new tool that turns your text prompts directly into editable prototypes, presentation decks, and visual one-pagers. Plus, you will learn how to instantly generate comprehensive research reports and presentations using Gemini Deep Research.
Plus, in today’s AI newsletter:
Anthropic Launches "Claude Design" for Instant Visuals
Researchers Build a Computer Powered Entirely by Physical Force
NSA Uses Blacklisted Anthropic's "Mythos" Model
How to Use Deep Research to Prep for Any Presentation Minutes
4 new AI tools worth trying
AI TOOLS
Anthropic announced Claude Design, an experimental new product that allows non-designers, like founders and product managers, to instantly generate and iterate on UI prototypes, slides, and layouts using Claude.
Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, users can generate an initial visual from a text prompt and refine it using direct edits or follow-up conversational requests.
It can read a company’s codebase and existing design files to automatically apply a team’s specific design system and brand guidelines to every project it creates.
Anthropic is positioning it as complementary to existing tools; designs can be exported as PDFs, PPTX files, or sent directly to Canva as fully editable projects.
It is available now in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers.
AI has already conquered text and code generation, but turning abstract ideas into on-brand visual assets has remained a bottleneck for non-designers. By automatically reading a company's codebase to match brand guidelines and integrating seamlessly into Canva, Anthropic is positioning Claude to own the entire workflow from the initial "napkin idea" straight to the final presentation deck.
AI NEWS
Researchers from St. Olaf College and Syracuse University have successfully built mechanical computers out of steel springs and bars that can perform calculations without a single drop of electricity.
Instead of relying on batteries or power grids, these devices harvest their operating power entirely from physical force and motion.
The machines store and process data mechanically, with prototypes successfully counting movements, verifying odd/even inputs, and remembering the magnitude of forces applied to them.
Because they lack fragile electronic chips, these mechanical computers can operate in extreme environments that would instantly destroy standard hardware, like massive temperature swings or corrosive chemical exposure.
The breakthrough is a massive stepping stone toward developing "smart materials" that can sense, decide, and respond to their environments, with future applications ranging from advanced artificial limbs to tactile rooms.
While these springs and bars won't be running an LLM anytime soon, decoupling computation from the power grid is a massive engineering leap. If we can build materials that intrinsically "think" and react based purely on physics and force, we open the door to highly resilient, zero-power smart technology that can survive anywhere on Earth, or beyond.
AI MODELS
A new scoop from Axios reveals that the National Security Agency (NSA) is actively utilizing Anthropic's most powerful model yet, "Mythos Preview," despite an ongoing and highly public feud between the AI lab and the US military.
The Department of Defense (which oversees the NSA) recently designated Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" after the company refused to compromise its safety red lines regarding mass surveillance and lethal weapons.
Despite this official blacklist, and OpenAI stepping in to take the Pentagon contract instead, sources confirm the NSA is still deploying Anthropic's Mythos Preview model for its operations.
The unauthorized use suggests that the government's pressing cybersecurity and intelligence needs are outweighing the Pentagon's political and contractual standoff with the company.
The US military establishment is clearly fractured on how to handle the AI arms race. When the world's most secretive intelligence agency ignores its own parent department's blacklist just to get its hands on Anthropic's latest tech, it proves one major point: in the realm of national security, raw capability will always trump bureaucratic policy.
HOW TO AI
🗂️ How to Use Deep Research to Prep for Any Presentation in 15 Minutes Flat
In this tutorial, you will learn how to instantly generate comprehensive research reports and presentation outlines using Gemini Deep Research, an AI-powered agent that autonomously browses the web, analyzes data, and synthesizes complete, cited slide decks for you in minutes.
🧰 Who is This For
Professionals and executives prepping for client pitches or strategy meetings
Students and educators needing deep, cited literature reviews for class
Startup founders building data-backed pitch decks
Anyone who wants AI to handle hours of background research and slide structuring
STEP 1: Access Gemini Deep Research
Head to gemini.google.com and ensure you are using a Gemini Advanced account. In the chat interface, look for the "Tools" menu or the model dropdown and select Deep Research.
At the bottom, you’ll see an input box where you can type your presentation goal.
For example, you can write: “I am presenting on the future of autonomous vehicles. I need a comprehensive report on current sensor trends, market growth, and an outline for a 10-slide presentation with speaker notes.”
Hit Enter, and Gemini will immediately start analyzing your request.
STEP 2: Review the Research Plan
Gemini automatically outlines exactly what topics it intends to search for before it begins gathering data. Once the plan is ready, the tool will display the steps it plans to take. Browse through the proposed research steps.
If you need it to focus on something specific, like open-source models rather than expensive enterprise software, click "Edit plan" to adjust the direction using natural language, then click "Start research."
STEP 3: Let Gemini Execute the Deep Research
Gemini autonomously searches the web, reads long articles, and gathers real data from multiple sources to fill your report with accurate, up-to-date content.
This process usually takes 5 to 15 minutes (you can leave the tab; it will notify you when it's done). Once complete, the tool will display a massive, highly structured report complete with inline citations, data tables, and a comprehensive summary of your topic.
STEP 4: Convert to Slides and Export
Once your report is ready, look toward the top of the screen and click Export to Docs to save the raw research.
To get your actual slides, simply type a follow-up prompt in the same chat: “Turn this entire report into a 10-slide presentation, including slide titles, bullet points, and speaker notes.”
Your presentation outline will be ready instantly, complete with structured, data-backed content. If you have the new Gemini Canvas integration, you can even export this directly into Google Slides!
Vercel says its internal systems were accessed via a compromised third-party AI tool, after a user with a ShinyHunters handle claimed a breach on BreachForums.
Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, promoting hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, while denouncing pluralism and “regressive” cultures.
Google announces a Gemini app integration between Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to let the AI image generator “automatically reflect” users' tastes.
Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop a memory processing unit that works alongside TPUs, and a new TPU for running AI models.
💻 Gemini for Mac: Google’s Gemini app, now built for Mac
🌎 Lyra 2.0: NVIDIA AI that turns text into interactive 3D scenes
🌎 Tiny Aya: Cohere's small, open-source model covering 70+ languages
💻 Holo 3: Open AI agent that can use computers like a human
THAT’S IT FOR TODAY
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