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TNW 381: Nintendo Switch 2's Higher Price - Amazon & TikTok, Alexa+, Claude & OpenAI
Manage episode 475057800 series 1594973
Amazon makes a bid for TikTok in the US. What Amazon's new Alexa+ can and cannot do. Nintendo officially unveils the Switch 2 console. And OpenAI & Anthropic are taking on the education market.
- Abrar Al-Heet of CNET joins Mikah Sargent this week! Abrar talks about Amazon making a bid to purchase TikTok in the US as Bytedance scrambles to divest ownership of the social media app.
- Mikah talks about Amazon's Alexa+ and some of the features that the service has yet to include following its launch.
- Kyle Orland of Ars Technica joins the show to talk about Nintendo's new Switch 2 console and some of the positives and negatives of the newly unveiled console.
- And Mikah rounds things out with OpenAI and Anthropic's push into the education market with new features to support university students.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti
Guest: Kyle Orland
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38 episodes
Manage episode 475057800 series 1594973
Amazon makes a bid for TikTok in the US. What Amazon's new Alexa+ can and cannot do. Nintendo officially unveils the Switch 2 console. And OpenAI & Anthropic are taking on the education market.
- Abrar Al-Heet of CNET joins Mikah Sargent this week! Abrar talks about Amazon making a bid to purchase TikTok in the US as Bytedance scrambles to divest ownership of the social media app.
- Mikah talks about Amazon's Alexa+ and some of the features that the service has yet to include following its launch.
- Kyle Orland of Ars Technica joins the show to talk about Nintendo's new Switch 2 console and some of the positives and negatives of the newly unveiled console.
- And Mikah rounds things out with OpenAI and Anthropic's push into the education market with new features to support university students.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti
Guest: Kyle Orland
Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly.
Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit
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