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Frontier AI labs' policies around military use of their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often prone to change, allowing leadership to preserve "optionality" (Sarah Shoker/fishbowlification)

Frontier AI labs' policies around military use of their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often prone to change, allowing leadership to preserve "optionality" (Sarah Shoker/fishbowlification)

Sarah Shoker / fishbowlification : Frontier AI labs' policies around military use of their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often prone to change, allowing leadership to preserve “optionality” —  I led the Geopolitics Team at OpenAI for approximately three years and then joined two other teams before deciding to leave in June 2025.

TCL is upgrading its easy-on-the-eyes glare-free NXTPAPER display tech with AMOLED

TCL is upgrading its easy-on-the-eyes glare-free NXTPAPER display tech with AMOLED

TCL has been making smartphones and tablets at an impressive clip for years. While most companies have focused on foldable display tech – and TCL has dabbled – the focus has been on its NXTPAPER screens. Aimed at being friendlier on the eyes, and pitched as a device somewhere between e-ink slates and traditional tablets, NXTPAPER has gradually been upgraded and refined, reaching an apex at CES 2026 earlier this year with the Kindle Scribe-alike, the Note A1 NXTPAPER and its latest smartphone, the NXTPAPER 70 Pro . At MWC, just a couple of months later, it's preparing for a major leap forward on future phones and tablets. It's been announced (and backed up with tech demos) that it's developing AMOLED NXTPAPER displays, aiming to combine the eye comfort benefits of TCL's current displays with flagship visual performance. This involved fundamentally redesigning and re-engineering the display architecture. Still, it should address the biggest problems with current LCD-based NXTPAPER, such as mediocre brightness, poor outdoor performance, and dull colors. This NXTPAPER AMOLED screen, well, it looks like AMOLED: Image by Mat Smith for Engadget On the showfloor at CES, the company had several demo devices showcasing the new screen technology's brightness. While still photos don't really do it justice, it's impressive, and the anti-glare effect seems premium compared to third-party anti-glare protective films. TCL says its incoming AMOLED display — it hasn't announced a device yet — will reach 3,200 nits of brightness. For reference, TCL's 70 Pro topped out at a mere 900 nits. TCL says it will also feature 120Hz refresh rates, 100 percent color gamut coverage, and blue light reduction that can go as low as 2.9 percent, which is 15 percent less than existing NXTPAPER displays. The company plans to launch an AMOLED NXTPAPER smartphone before the end of the year. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/tcl-is-upgrading-its-easy-on-the-eyes-glare-free-nxtpaper-display-tech-with-amoled-085736065.html?src=rss

A look at the research into using metal-organic frameworks as photoresists for cutting-edge silicon etching, as ASML aims to move from EUV to X-ray lithography (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

A look at the research into using metal-organic frameworks as photoresists for cutting-edge silicon etching, as ASML aims to move from EUV to X-ray lithography (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : A look at the research into using metal-organic frameworks as photoresists for cutting-edge silicon etching, as ASML aims to move from EUV to X-ray lithography —  We are now one generation of technological alchemy away from the smallest possible silicon microchips

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite chip is made for smartwatches and AI devices

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite chip is made for smartwatches and AI devices

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite chips are reserved for the best Android phones and laptops , and now the company has introduced the first in the Elite series for wearables. The Snapdragon Wear Elite processor is designed for smartwatches and AI devices like pendants and promises up to a fivefold increase in single-thread CPU performance, Qualcomm announced . The new processor is built on a 3nm process to improve speed and efficiency over previous models, while boosting the number of cores to five (one big core at 2.1GHz and 4 little cores at 1.9GHz). With those changes, the company is promising up to five times faster single-threaded performance, with GPU speeds boosted up to seven times. Qualcomm The Snapdragon Wear Elite is also equipped with a new NPU that allows low-power AI use cases like keyword recognition along with noise cancellation. It's also the first Snapdragon wearable processor with a dedicated Hexagon NPU supporting AI models with two billion parameters. That will allow new "personal AI experiences," the company said, like context-aware recommendations, natural voice interactions, life logging and AI agents that can orchestrate tasks on your behalf. Wear OS devices with the chip should see up to 30 percent improved battery life and charging speeds of up to 50 percent in ten minutes. It also allows for more types of connectivity, including 5G reduced capability, micro-power Wi-Fi, NB-NTN for satellites, Bluetooth 6.0, GNSS and UWB. However, manufacturers will be able to source versions of the chip without some of those wireless features. Whether the Snapdragon Wear Elite will give Wear OS watch manufacturers a better chance to chip into the 50-plus percent market share of Apple's Watch remains to be seen. The first devices using the chip will start to ship in the "next few months," Qualcomm said. "Leading global partners are supporting the platform including Google, Motorola and Samsung." This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/wearables/qualcomms-snapdragon-wear-elite-chip-is-made-for-smartwatches-and-ai-devices-080744412.html?src=rss