Microsoft's Cortana gets a body and a very particular set of skills
 

The job opening to be your AI assistant is growing increasingly competitive. Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung are all vying for that position by offering convenient, natural-language-based responses to queries and commands. Microsoft is now following in Amazon's footsteps in a couple ways. The company is partnering with Harman/Kardon for its Cortana-powered Invoke speaker, and it's also opening its AI platform to software developers with the Cortana Skills Kit.
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