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assistant

[uh-sis-tuhnt] / əˈsɪs tənt /


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Guzman is a third-year coach who was an assistant under former coach Peter Gunny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

The company’s new voice assistant, Archy, is part of its Google-powered ArchIQ system and can take drive-thru orders in English and Spanish.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

The research was co-led by Scott Uhlrich, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah's John and Marcia Price College of Engineering, with collaborators at Stanford and New York University.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

As long as Microsoft continues to demonstrate healthy cloud growth, AI returns and adoption of its Copilot assistant, the company is likely to continue on its growth trajectory, StoneX analyst Yi Fu Lee told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The trader’s assistant brought out the hissing lamps and hung them over the porch.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

Manus is an agent tool that can carry out real-world tasks for users -- currently a hot sector in global tech, with AI labs racing to release personal assistants.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Yet a similar techno-utopian pitch survives in today’s smart homes and domestic technologies, from assistants like Alexa to artificial intelligence marketed as a way to make life easier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Retailers have also tweaked their shopping assistants in an effort to iron out service issues.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

There was the further danger that if he put one of his assistants to taking DNA photographs, the B structure would also be discovered in Pasadena.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson




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