Week in Review: Nintendo reveals the switch 2

Welcome back to the week in review! Tons of things for you today, including Nintendo’s Switch 2; Problems with capacity in Openai; a story that deserves Hollywood treatment; And many, many more. Let’s go!

It is finally (almost) here: After almost 10 years Nintendo finally released his SWITCH heir, the switch 2S According to Amanda Silberling on TechCrunch, the $ 450 system “tries to take a console that is already loved and Just just do it better.“I am in this! Unfortunately, Pre -orders in the US can be delayed In response to Trump’s tariffs.

Delays, delays: Openai Sam Altman said in a series of X publications that the new image generation tool may cause unspecified product delaysS “We work as quickly as possible (as) to get really things,” Altman writes. The company Promises to release O3 (after effectively canceling consumer release in February).

The old college tried: Zac Eating Garry, who built the Viral Cal Ai app, wrote on Twitter that although there are 4.0 GPA and ARR company worth $ 30 million, he still was not accepted into 15 top universitiesS

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News

Oh no: Trump Administration dismiss the head of the National Security Agency and Cyber ​​CommandAs well as the NSA deputy director, who was the best civil leader of the agency. It is not clear who is currently watching the NSA and Cyber ​​command after the shooting.

Make me shopping for me please: Amazon on Monday A new act revealedAI general purpose agent that can take control of the web browser and independently perform some simple actions. Amazon tests a feature called “buy for me” -The nourished by their NOVA AI models shows third-party sites to users that have products they may want. They can then buy things from these other sites without leaving the Amazon site. Quite exquisite!

Yikes: A wicked use for the new Chatgpt image generator: fake receiptsS People are already using it to generate fake receipts at the restaurant, potentially adding another tool to the already extensive AI DeepFakes toolkit used by fraudsters. Generated receipts can even include food and coffee stains to look more authentic. Great!

A tale of two companies: Rippling announced in March that judging rival Diel for suspected spying and This week released the declaration to the torn employee who testifies to working as a spy. There are some juicy details, such as people representing Diel, who is said to tell him to break his “old phone with an ax.” Hollywood, do you listen?

Finger indicating: Epic Games Executive Director Tim Sweey Called Apple and Google For their Gangster -style business practices. You may remember that his company has filed a lawsuit against Apple and Google for monopolistic practices regarding their relevant app stores. Epic won his Google case, but not Apple.

We hardly knew: Zelle who facilitates payments for a person said on Tuesday that He excludes his appS But don’t worry: of 150 million people who use Zelle, only 2% of transactions are performed through the self -use, not through the bank. Well, that makes sense then.

Speaking of banks: The carriage that connects bank accounts to financial applications has sold ordinary shares worth about $ 575 million per per $ 6.1 billion after the cash estimateS The estimate is about less than half of the $ 13.4 billion, which Kaita, based in San Francisco, was estimated when he raised Series D of $ 425 million in April 2021.

Power Hungry: New and extended data centers are expected to double the search for AI power by 2029. As a result, developers and technology companies work extraordinary capacity lock. And This is where the sun is giving outS

Analysis

Reversal: The pressing of Elon Musk in politics – more specially, his alignment with President Trump and the activities in the federal government – has dragged Tesla in uncertaintyS For proof, just look at the disappointing company delivery numbers for the first quarter. The question now is whether the Tesla brand can recover.