Intuit cut hundreds of jobs and spent at least $20 billion in a massive bet on AI. Today the company is revealing its new virtual assistant

When he was running Intuit’s TurboTax and QuickBooks businesses, Sasan Goodarzi had a startling realization: No matter how much work the company put into helping  people calculate their own taxes or keep their own books, they didn’t really want to do those things at all.