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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