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EA exec pinky-promises there’s no GenAI in Battlefield 6, but does say it’s ‘Very seducing’ like someone being lured to an early grave in a Hellraiser film

With EA now on the hook for $20 billion in the wake of its Saudi-and-Kushner-funded buyout, both the company and its new owners have been pretty obvious about their ambitions for AI-driven development to, somehow, miraculously help it start printing money quickly. Which is concerning. Also concerning: One of EA’s biggest releases this year hits…

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AMD says Intel’s ‘interesting choices’ around multithreading could help Epyc CPUs gain server market share

AMD compute and enterprise AI VP Madhu Rangarajan told tech news site CRN that they are expecting next-gen AMD Venice servers to increase the performance lead over next-gen Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids, in part due to Intel’s decision to ditch for the upcoming server CPU generation. The AMD VP said, “We understand that our competitor…

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Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P says the long-awaited job redesign will change things, but also won’t—which doesn’t clear much of anything up

Final Fantasy 14, as we’ve often observed on this very site, has a bit of a design problem when it comes to its jobs—they’re pretty stale. Tanks mostly play the same, healers get like two damage buttons, DPS all try to shove their buttons into the same two-minute window: It’s a little droll. For a…

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