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animal intelligence

A female Japanese tit fluttering its wings

Life

Birds make an 'after you' gesture to prompt their mate to enter nest

Japanese tits sometimes flutter their wings in an apparent gesture of encouraging their mate to enter their shared nest first

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Life

Dogs really do understand that words stand for objects

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Technology

Why giving AI a robot body could make its ‘brain’ more human-like

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Technology

Nvidia's Blackwell AI 'superchip' is the most powerful yet

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Technology

Watch an AI-powered robot dog crawl around an obstacle course

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Some of the gaming 3D virtual environments the SIMA AI from Google DeepMind has been mastering

Technology

Google AI learns to play open-world video games by watching them

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Solar Eclipse and elephants

Life

The surprising ways animals react to a total solar eclipse

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Technology

Could an AI replace all music ever recorded with Taylor Swift covers?

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Programming code

Technology

AI chatbot models ‘think’ in English even when using other languages

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Technology

AI chatbots use racist stereotypes even after anti-racism training

Large language models still demonstrate racial prejudice against speakers of African American English, despite the safety guard rails implemented by tech companies such as OpenAI

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Life

Bumblebees show each other how to solve complex puzzles

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Technology

The surprising promise and profound perils of AIs that fake empathy

Features

Technology

US Army tests AI chatbots as battle planners in a war game simulation

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Health

AI designs bespoke 3D-printed prosthetic eyes

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