Amazon-Microsoft Alliance Allows Competing Robot Assistants to Talk to Each Other

Does this mean the AI apocalypse is one step closer?by Chetanya RobinsonThis Amazon Echo will soon be able to call up Microsoft's Alexa Adam Bowie/Flickr
Here’s some news that’s not at all dystopian and another step toward our rule under a single tech conglomerate Singularity: Amazon and Microsoft’s AI assistants, Alexa and Cortana, will soon be able to work together and talk to each other. By the end of the year, people will be able to command Cortana to open Alexa and use its