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Ereaders are only going to get smarter thanks to E Ink’s partnership with MediaTek, and it could be a big improvement to color displays — but AI is unfortunately involved

E Ink and MediaTek are partnering to improve color display for ereaders
It also wants to add AI-powered tools to ereaders such as translations and document summaries
Though it its good news for color display performance, AI tools defeat the purpose of simplicity with ereaders

E Ink and MediaTek have announced that they will be expanding their partnership to make your ereaders even smarter.

Showcasing at Computex 2026, E Ink and MediaTek shared that they will be continuing with their collaboration to combine E Ink Gallery and E Ink Kaleido color display technologies with MediaTek’s latest chips to improve performance and make AI functions integral to the next generation of the best ereaders.

The core aspect of the partnership centers around the development of MediaTek’s MT8115 and MT8126 system-on-chips (SoC), which will pack AI-powered applications to carry out on-device tasks. This includes translating languages when reading texts not in...

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OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons

The CEOs of several major artificial intelligence companies are urging members of Congress to adopt new laws that would make it harder for bad actors to develop biological weapons using their technology. Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Microsoft AI’s Mustafa

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The first DRAM-less SSD controller to max out PCIe Gen5 is also a power efficiency champion in the making

* The upcoming Phison E37T SSD controller manages to max out PCI-E 5.0 read speed ratings at 14,900 MB/s * It consumes less than a 3rd of the power of Phison's older DRAM-infused SSD controllers * The move is a crucial one, aligned with Phison's anticipation

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Quantinuum raised $1.68B in an upsized US IPO, selling 28M shares for $60 each, above its marketed range of $53 to $55, valuing the company at $15.6B

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Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices, and AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app

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OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons

The first DRAM-less SSD controller to max out PCIe Gen5 is also a power efficiency champion in the making

Quantinuum raised $1.68B in an upsized US IPO, selling 28M shares for $60 each, above its marketed range of $53 to $55, valuing the company at $15.6B

Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices, and AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app