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CD Projekt CEO reveals why the company decided to use Unreal Engine for The Witcher 4

The decision was made in 2022, years before Cyberpunk 2077's troubled launch, the CEO says
Behind the Polish Curtain: CD Projekt Red's move away from its in-house REDengine in favor of Unreal Engine 5 traces back to late 2021, when Epic unveiled its genuinely impressive Matrix Awakens tech demo. In a recent interview, the company's co-CEO, Michał Nowakowski, explained how the Polish studio settled on switching engines for its open-world games – noting that CD Projekt was never founded to chase its own technological breakthroughs in the first place.
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang joins X, defends Chinese AI: "Open-source models that are excellent should be used"

Big quote: Jensen Huang just spent a week watching his company's valuation get hit by the threat of a Chinese open-weight model. His response was to go on the record defending it. Speaking to Axios in Fort Worth, Texas, at the opening of a new phase of the Wistron plant that builds Nvidia's AI infrastructure, the Nvidia CEO said American companies should "absolutely" be free to run Chinese models. "These Chinese models are excellent," he said. "Open-source models that are excellent should be used." Asked whether China could displace American labs, he was blunt: "Zero possibility."
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Steve Wozniak says he's "disappointed a lot" by AI and rarely uses it

Apple's co-founder has yet to see signs AI can truly replace humans
In brief: While it's fair to say that most people are skeptical at best when it comes to AI and its abilities, the opposite is often true for those in tech. But Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is one of the exceptions. In a recent interview, Woz said he doesn't use AI very much, and when he does, he's "disappointed a lot."