TNW 381: Nintendo Switch 2's Higher Price - Amazon & TikTok, Alexa+, Claude & OpenAI
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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TNW 380: 23andMe's Bankruptcy Fallout - EV Vehicles, Age Verification, MCP
Some alternatives to Teslas. A law in Utah makes app stores rather than companies responsible for age verification. 23andMe files for bankruptcy. And OpenAI is following in the footsteps of its rival, Anthropic.
Emily Forlini of PCMag joins Mikah Sargent this week! Emily talks about some alternatives to Teslas that cover various price ranges.
Mikah talks about a new law passed in Utah that pushes the responsibility of age verification from tech companies to app stores.
Geoffrey Fowler of The Washington Post joins Mikah to talk about 23andMe filing for bankruptcy, why you should swiftly delete your DNA information from the company, and shares how you can delete that information.
And OpenAI is following Anthropic in adopting the company's standard for connecting AI models to data.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Emily Forlini
Guest: Geoffrey Fowler
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