or learning tell but take cortana. one thing i'm most excited about is a.i. that helps me with my more scarce commodity, which is time. every day i send lots of e-mails and get a lot of i'ms and make commitments in e-mails which forget. but cortana save merchandise differ because it said you sent a mail to todd saying you would call on thursday and thursday comes and says did you follow up with nod and a.i. helps me get focused and get more out of my time. something we do with cortana and that's the real currency of our time, which is i always say it's -- a.i. can help you stay distracted by engaging a lot more in things that take away time. but the most real purpose we need to solve for is how does a.i. give you back more time for things that matter the most to you. and quantum to me is if you say, well, this amazing, going to have a mixed result future, all this a.i., what's anyone thing we need more of? it's computing. in some sense, in spite of all the progress we have made, what is still not solved for -- let's talk about the compute additional problems

what does a get with cortana that they might not get with alexa? i am excited to see the launch. we see a world in which there will be multiple ai's. you will have experts in certain domains and bring more data. it is kind of like the internet in a way. customers will be able to search out experts in the space. and you can probably have a broad set of ai. emily: will we see you partnering with other rivals in december? toni: why not? emily: how do you make those calculations? toni: we are customer-focused. it has served us well. we are passionate about the customer-first approach, and we work backwards from that. if we believe it will benefit customers and improve the experience, we will work towards it. emily: is the vision for alexa a center of a bunch of home devices or the home device? toni: we see alexa as being an ambient experience in the home. customers can invoke this experience wherever they are. we also see that going outside of the home. we have announced partnerships with automobile manufacturers. it will be embedded in some of the car

what do you see -- microsoft and cortana.hat do you see customers getting out of cortana that they are not getting out of alexa? >> we see this world where there will be multiple ai's. a.i. that are expert in different domains. you will be able to search out an expert in a particular space, and then you will have a group of ai's who could handle your question. emily: do you see more partnerships coming in the future? >> why not. for us, it is very customer focused.hould -- we are super passionate about the customer first approach. improvelieve it will customer experience, then we will work towards it. center ofalexa at the a bunch of home devices, or is it the center device in the home? ambiente alexa being an experience in the home. customers can invoke this experience wherever they are. we also see it going outside the house. we have announced partnerships ,ith automobile manufacturers so that alexa can be embedded in some of the cars. we also have partnerships for when you are traveling on business and you are checking int

what do you see customers using cortana that they are not getting out of alexa?s it office and email? >> it is definitely in the space of productivity. i am really excited to see this launch. for us, we see this world where there will be multiple ai's. you will have ai's that are expert in different domains. it is kind of like the internet in a way. customers will be able to search out an expert in a space, and then you will have a group of ai's who could handle your question. emily: will we you see more partnering with other rivals like google in the future? >> why not. emily: how do you make those calculations? >> for us, it is very customer focused. we are super passionate about the customer first approach. we work backwards from that. if we believe it will benefit customers and improve the experience, we will work towards it. emily: is alexa at the center of a network of home devices, or is it the device in the home? >> we see alexa being an ambient experience in the home. you know, customers can invoke this experience wherever they are. we also see that goin

-- with the cortana? toni: you will have experts in certain domains and bring more data.d of like the internet in a way. customers will be able to search out experts annual probably have a broad set of ai who can handle it. and that when we see you partnering with other rivals, do we see that in december? toni: why not? emily: how do you make that happen? toni: it has served us well. we are passionate about the customer first approach. it will benefit customers and improve the experience, we will work towards it. emily: is the vision for alexa a center of a bunch of home devices or the home device? toni: we see alexa as being an ambient experience in the home. customers can invoke this experience wherever they are. we also see that going outside of the home. --have announced partners partnerships with automobile dealers. we have a partnership when you are traveling with business and you are checking into a hotel, you can experience alexa there. we see it going beyond the home. emily: d.c. on security as an area of interest? -- do yountionally see a security as an area of

it go back to the legal framework otherwise section one five five is applied and catalonia has its cortana mean revoked we don't know what he's going to say or when he's going to say we have a hint of what the government's position might be from an interview with al-jazeera by a senior member of his coalition in which he basically says look what they're offering here is dialogue without preconditions they're talking about a framework for mediation that really doesn't have a lot of distance to travel because madrid has consistently said there's no place for mediation mr a hole in parliament reiterated that on wednesday afternoon there is however another avenue. of talks which may have opened up that comes courtesy of the head of the socialist party the main opposition in a grid saying that he's reached an agreement with roy in the popular party to set up a commission in parliament to spend six months looking at constitutional reforms in the way that the regions are government but basically to give them more autonomy now this begins to look like a real enticement to the catalans to mr zimmer

as you said, they are partnered with microsoft when it comes to cortana.n focus of that partnership, she said it has improved productivity. microsoft comes with outlook, microsoft office, so they assume that is what users will use that partnership to exploit. vonnie: fascinating. talking about amazon, all this talk about where amazon is going to have a new huge building, if not hq. emily: that is a big talk -- that is the big talk in seattle. it is exciting that amazon is expanding and bringing tens of thousands of jobs, but it is a huge loss for seattle and the fact that amazon could not do this in seattle is a big deal. seattle, theage in ceo of amazon consumer worldwide professed the vicinity of a town like pittsburgh any hopes hq to go somewhere with -- hq two go somewhere with strong stem education. i try to get something from the ceo of amazon web services. here is what he had to say. >> that is above my pay grade. none of us really know at this point, where it is going to be. we are in the middle of a process. above hisy one person pay grade and tha

here's something with microsoft's cortana. these are all separate bullet points.ks to amazon going, were just going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and we suspect some of the stuff is going to work. olivia: that's how they do it, they are the everything store. their strategy was consumer electronics, they always have something up their sleeve. alexa is about ordering more groceries and getting those customer touch points. .e all eat several times a day how can amazon integrate into our homes, our kitchens, and be there at every moment when we need something. abigail: at what point could this strategy possibly fail? flags, it ceo of six seems like they're getting into so much whether it's groceries, drugs, athletic wear. at some point a business model can benefit from having expertise or specialty in something. is it possible to be the best in everything? olivia: it's a really good point. we saw this with amazon fresh that they rolled out several years ago, and it wasn't working. people were not buying their groceries through amazon online. i think it is