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.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 Mikah talks about Amazon’s Alexa+ and some of the features that the service has yet to include following its launch.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 And Mikah rounds things out with OpenAI and Anthropic’s push into the education market with new features to support university students.<\/p>\n
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\nTech News Weekly Episode 381
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