TNW 381: Nintendo Switch 2's Higher Price - Amazon & TikTok, Alexa+, Claude & OpenAI
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Abrar Al-Hiti is here. |
| 0:03.0 | We talk about Amazon, maybe thinking about buying TikTok then, what the new AL-E-X-A-plus can and can't do. |
| 0:12.3 | Kyle Orland of Ars Technica joins us. |
| 0:14.2 | He got some hands on time with the Nintendo Switch 2 and tells us his thoughts before we round things out with OpenAI and Anthropic, |
| 0:22.8 | both taking on the education market. |
| 0:25.9 | Stay tuned for this episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:30.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:32.4 | From people you trust. |
| 0:34.9 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:38.3 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 381, with Abraar Alhiti and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, April 3, 2025, Nintendo Switch 2's Higher Price. |
| 0:53.2 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about |
| 0:57.6 | the people making and breaking that tech news. |
| 1:01.3 | I am your host, Micah, Sergeant, and I am joined today on this, the first Thursday of |
| 1:08.6 | April by the wonderful, the amazing, the ever so sharp, Abraar Al-Hiti. |
| 1:14.3 | Hello, Abra. |
| 1:15.1 | Hello, how are you? |
| 1:17.1 | I am doing Peachy Keen. |
| 1:19.2 | How is your home state treating you? |
| 1:23.5 | Yes, I'm in Illinois visiting family. |
| 1:25.8 | It's good to be back. |
| 1:26.5 | It's been, the weather's been awful, but the people are good. So that's why we're here. We'll take it. |
| 1:34.0 | Yes, absolutely. I remember now us talking about, I couldn't, I have, there's one person I talk to regularly who lived in Illinois for a time, |
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