TNW 376: Amazon's New AI-Powered Assistant - Claude Plays Pokemon, Framework Desktop

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Anthropic's Claude AI is now playing Pokemon through Twitch - albeit slowly. Emily Forlini was at the Amazon event this past week and talks about Alexa+ that was announced at the event. And Framework announced a new desktop PC, but did Framework really need to get into the PC desktop space?

Mikah Sargent talks about how Anthropic's Claude AI is being utilized to play Pokemon Red through Twitch.
Emily Forlini attended Amazon's February 2025 Devices & Services event in New York and talks about Alexa+ which was announced at the event, and what could possibly happen to Amazon Prime when Alexa+ starts to roll out to users in the coming weeks.
And Sean Hollister from The Verge talks about Framework's first foray into a desktop PC. He spent some time with the PC and shares his thoughts on it!

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Emily Forlini

Guest: Sean Hollister

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Emily for Lini of PCMag is here.
0:04.8	We kick off the show by talking about Claude A.I from Anthropic playing Pokemon on Twitch.
0:12.0	Then, Emily, who was at Amazon's recent ALEXA Plus event, tells us about what we can expect from the AI-powered virtual assistant before
0:23.3	Sean Hollister of the Verge stops by to tell us about his time with Frameworks new desktop
0:29.3	PC. It's sort of kind of modular. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly.
0:37.1	Podcasts you love.
0:38.9	From people you trust.
0:41.4	This is Twitter.
0:44.8	This is Tech News Weekly, episode 376, with Emily Forlini and me, Micah Sargent,
0:51.8	recorded Thursday, February 27th, 2025, Amazon's new AI-powered assistant.
0:59.6	Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news.
1:06.2	I am one of your hosts. I am Micah Sargent, and I am joined on this vast and ever-changing landscape
1:15.8	that is the internet by the wonderful Emily for Lini. Welcome back, Emily. Hey, Micah. Happy to be here.
1:24.0	Happy to have you. So we have some stuff to talk about today. As people are aware, we typically kick things off with our stories of the week.
1:34.2	Emily did just get back from an interesting event, so she's agreed to stick around for a little while longer and tell us about that.
1:41.2	So I'm actually going to be kicking off the show this week with my story of the week. And that is about a new, a new player has entered the race, so to speak,
1:53.9	because Anthropic, which makes the Claude AI, decided to essentially use, I would say, kind of a newer benchmark,
2:07.4	to test the capabilities of its AI model.
2:12.8	And in doing so, we have been blessed by the introduction of Claude playing Pokemon Red on Twitch.
2:24.5	So I want to start by kind of laying the groundwork here because it's important to understand
2:28.0	this isn't a case where we have, you know, a bunch of, a bunch of YouTube videos, right, of people playing Pokemon being uploaded
2:38.5	into the system and saying, hey, watch, this is how people play this game. Here is the game
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