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assistant

[uh-sis-tuhnt] / əˈsɪs tənt /


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During Connnect, Meta also announced the Muse Charm, a tamagotchi-like AI device that will allow users to interact with their Muse agent, a type of autonomous AI assistant, separately from a smartphone.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Ph.D., an assistant professor at Yale University, also co-led the investigation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Instead, she was arrested Monday when she was about to leave for work as an administrative assistant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Overdeck, a math prodigy who once worked at Amazon as Jeff Bezos’ technical assistant, and Siegel, a computer scientist with a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founded Two Sigma in 2001.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Fig always made a great test subject and an awesome assistant.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

His assistants, Porfirio Cervantes and Zhytelna — a former Cal State Northridge player who is now a professional — also maintain strong ties to the Valley community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

An a-Muse-ing trend: The newest creations from Silicon Valley are hyper-adorable digital assistants, most notably Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Consumers have plenty of artificial-intelligence assistants at their disposal that can analyze their spending and optimize their finances.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

But some users find that much like the models they’re built on—which can hallucinate, misinterpret or even commit spontaneous acts of cybercrime—their assistants, too, can behave unpredictably.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

There was a shortage of assistants in Camelot for the hanking, because there were so many people at it So Guenever began going with Lancelot to help him with the balls of string.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White


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