Tim Sweeney
@TimSweeneyEpic
Epic Games founder and CEO
A surprisingly weak roadmap from the CMA, the British competition regulator. The monopolized UK app store economy has all of the vibrancy of a Soviet supermarket, and consideration of unblocking competing app stores is delayed to 2026. epicgames.com/site/en-US/new…
CMA proposes action to drive more competition on mobile platforms. We’re proposing to designate Apple and Google with strategic market status in each of their mobile platforms under the new digital markets competition regime: competitionandmarkets.blog.gov.uk/2025/07/23/cma…
Damn. RIP Ozzy. Legend seems an inadequate word for the impact he had. Ozzy was part of the soundtrack of my life through high school with Sabbath and into his solo career. Ozzy was always there. There playing games and trying to make games in the early 80s. There on drives to…
CMA must tackle Apple and Google duopoly to ‘unlock UK growth’ cityam.com/cma-must-tackl…
💻 | NEW REPORT: Our new paper shows how Apple and Google’s app store duopoly costs UK developers up to £2.4bn. Strengthening the CMA will level the playing field and lead to more investment and innovation. ippr.org/articles/fair-…
"It's important to note that Apple have a rich history of being obstructive to any kind of regulation. They've challenged every one of their gatekeeper designations to date1, two articles of the law itself, they delayed the UK CMA's investigation by a year on a technicality…
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Capex spend on AI data centres has reached 1.2% of US GDP. That has surpassed Dotcom era spend on telecom equipment (1%) but still trails railroad spend in 1880s (6%).
Where were you #OTD (in fact, on this exact day – Friday, July 18th, 1969) 56 years ago? I can tell you where I was…on the way to the Moon! Happy #Apollo11 Friday!
Artificial superintelligence requires a combination of computing performance and algorithms that exceeds what we have now. It might be that it requires so much more of both that it’s very far away. And it might be that we have sufficient algorithms, but need so much more compute…
CONFIRMED: BLITZ ROYALE WILL BE A PERMANENT MODE‼️ #Fortnite | @itsmeleaky @Loolo_WRLD
This has made insane progress over the past 6 months!
Introducing MirageLSD: The First Live-Stream Diffusion (LSD) AI Model Input any video stream, from a camera or video chat to a computer screen or game, and transform it into any world you desire, in real-time (<40ms latency). Here’s how it works (w/ demo you can use!):
Life as an Apple developer is always just one capricious, bureaucratic decision away from leaving you ruined. Intolerable.
Do I know anyone at Apple? I've lost this week trying to get my macOS app notarized Notarization jobs would just stall and get stuck on Xcode for days! So I wrote an email to Apple Developer Support And the next thing I know is they TERMINATED my entire Developer Account?!