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

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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