AI Weekly: Microsoft chases Amazon, Toyota taps Nvidia, humans brace for dystopia

Here’s this week’s newsletter:
This week, Amazon and Microsoft launched new attacks in the intelligent assistant wars.
On Tuesday, Amazon added a touchscreen to its Echo device and introduced calls and messaging. (This Sunday, don’t forget to say, “Alexa, call Mom.”)
And yesterday at the Build conference, Microsoft upped its ante by releasing a Cortana Skills Kit for developers and launching 26 new voice apps. Despite these salvos, as our Khari Johnson writes, Googl