Tech News Weekly 381

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.

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Links

• Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S. - The New York Times
• Here’s what the new Amazon Alexa+ can and can’t do - The Washington Post
• Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch - Ars Technica
• OpenAI and Anthropic are fighting over college students with free AI | The Verge
• Introducing Claude for education \ Anthropic
• Scaling the OpenAI Academy: A new hub for AI literacy and community learning