Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber’s chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.
The company, which deploys AI-guided robot arms for food production, says it is looking to expand its services to provide for a broader array of customers.
The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.
Some lawmakers are calling for widespread reforms following years of surveillance scandals and abuses across successive U.S. administrations. But even if the spy law known as Section 702 expires in April, the government’s spy powers will not automatically lapse.