Accepted French article about fruit is something powered by AI? (9)
I believe the answer is:
automaton
'something powered by ai?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.
'accepted french article about fruit' is the wordplay.
'accepted' becomes 'a' (financial abbreviation).
'french article' becomes 'un' (indefinite article in French).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'fruit' becomes 'tomato' (type of fruit).
'un' going around 'tomato' is 'utomaton'.
'a'+'utomaton'='AUTOMATON'
'is' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for automaton that I've seen before include "What may assemble" , "variety of android" , "Robot figure" , "Amount to a (anag) - robot" , "Mechanical man" .)