Microsoft and Amazon struck a brilliant partnership to take on Google in the next big thing for clou

Microsoft and Amazon on Thursday announced a surprise partnership in releasing a free new software tool for developers, called Gluon. Gluon makes it easier for developers to build artificial-intelligence and machine-learning systems — aka apps that can learn. But there's another, more important reason this partnership is interesting: It challenges Google in its one big area of dominance. Microsoft and Amazon have joined forces to help spread artificial intelligence across apps. The...