Inklings #023 📧
NVIDIA is paying $6 billion to investors in Poolside for a licensing deal to access its open model 'factory', while offering jobs to 109 employees but excluding the founders, who will raise $1 billion…
NVIDIA is paying $6 billion to investors in Poolside for a licensing deal to access its open model 'factory', while offering jobs to 109 employees but excluding the founders, who will raise $1 billion…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney dismissed Apple's revised EU App Store fee structure as 'junk', criticizing the new 0.50 euro Core Technology Fee for apps distributed outside the App Store. Apple's changes…
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store on Monday because an extortionist duped Apple into executing a takedown by planting AI-modified illegal content in a pub…
Shift Up's Stellar Blade director Kim Hyung-tae released an AI-generated music video for the upcoming game Blood Rain, titled "Wanna be in LOVE," which fans criticized as "AI slop" due to visual artif…
Valve's requirement for developers to disclose generative AI use on Steam store pages has drawn support from many game developers who say transparency benefits players. In interviews with GamesRadar+,…
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch posted on X that AI is revealing everything is code, from slide decks to the universe itself, arguing that AI has dissolved boundaries between disciplines by directly writin…
Big Tech cut more than 80,000 jobs in Q1 2026, the highest quarterly total in three years, as 86 tech firms laid off workers. Experts accuse CEOs of using AI as a scapegoat for routine cost-cutting, w…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve over Steam's AI disclosure policies, prompting Valve to make AI disclosures more prominent and hide AI-aided games from search results.…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Steam's AI disclosure requirement as a 'Scarlet Letter' harming developers, but data from a December 2025 Game Oracle study shows the label reduces reviews by 52.…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve's decision to require AI disclosure labels on Steam games, calling it "really irresponsible" and arguing it harms developers by stigmatizing productivity to…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney called Valve's mandatory generative AI disclosure for Steam games 'irresponsible,' arguing it stigmatizes developers and harms their chances of success. In a PC Gamer interv…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve's AI disclosure policies on Steam, calling them "really irresponsible" and claiming they make it harder for game developers to succeed. The remarks highligh…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve's mandatory AI disclosure tags for the Steam storefront, calling the requirement "irresponsible" and arguing it harms game developers. Valve updated its pol…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney advocates for interconnected game economies and transferable in-game items to help new games succeed, citing upcoming Unreal Engine 6 features. He argues that major develope…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discussed the future of gaming and AI, stating that no single company will achieve an absolute monopoly in the industry. He also addressed the possibility of collaboration w…
Epic Games' State of Unreal 2026 keynote announced a controversial shift toward generative AI, deprecation of Blueprint, and promotion of Verse, sparking backlash from developers who see it as a threa…
Epic Games announced a ground-up rebuild of its Epic Games Launcher, promising a 5x faster cold start time and a 6.5x faster system tray restore, addressing long-standing user complaints about sluggis…
Epic Games announced at Unreal Fest that it is integrating generative AI into Unreal Engine, releasing an experimental Model Context Protocol plugin for UE5.8 that connects to AI models like Claude an…