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TNW 381: Nintendo Switch 2's Higher Price - Amazon & TikTok, Alexa+, Claude & OpenAI

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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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