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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Blasts Valve AI Content Rules As Irresponsible

Shortly after Tim Sweeney's Unreal Fest keynote, he sat down with PC Gamer for an extended interview discussing the future of Unreal Engine 6, "Team Open," Epic's relationship with Valve, and AI-driven game development. As the CEO of Epic Games, the developer behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine known for powering a substantial majority of AA and AAA releases for the past few console generations, Tim Sweeney can certainly speak with some authority on these topics.

However, Tim Sweeney also has a business to run, and his comments during the interview are obviously in line with a businessman who wants developers and consumers to more readily embrace AI as Unreal Engine 6 looks to do the same. During the interview, Sweeney asserts that Steam's mandatory AI disclosure policy is "irresponsible" and will make it more difficult for developers to compete.

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Samsung’s Excellent OLED Monitors Are Up to 38 Percent Off for Prime Day

Samsung makes some of the very best OLED monitors out there, and some of its top gaming monitors are getting some solid discounts for Prime Day. The strongest deal on offer is on the Odyssey G6 (G61SH). This 27-inch monitor is one of the company's latest displays, offering

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US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says If a self-driving car is going to stop, it may need to stop itself. US vehicle safety regulators are proposing to let robotaxi designers get rid of brake pedals, calling regulatory requirements for manually operated methods of

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Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms

AI AND ML Surely, we can have rules that allow us to continue doing what we're doing For more than three years now, we've been hearing from AI execs who insist that the government regulate their industries … until there's a chance such oversight could

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Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms