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