Alexa! Can This Amazon Executive Make You Cool Again?

Photo: Emil Lendof/WSJ, Zuma PressPanos Panay remembers the first time he walked into a room and asked Alexa to play a song. “And it actually played,” he says, hands on his knees, leaning into the audience of reporters and analysts at Amazon.com’s February demonstration of Alexa+, a rebooted, AI-infused version of the virtual assistant. “Sounds kind of funny right now, but 10 years ago, it was mind-blowing.” ...