Now, I’ve known Panay for a long time — if you’re a tech fan, you know that he was the Microsoft exec who really brought the Windows hardware market back to life by introducing the Surface line of tablets and laptops,

Alexa Plus will start rolling out next month in early access. It's an opt-in service and won't be available to everyone through an over-the-air update in March.

Alexa+, Amazon’s revamped version of Alexa was unveiled Wednesday, bringing the popular voice assistant into the artificial intelligence era.