Scientists use AI to decode sperm whale communication, discovering a possible phonetic alphabet and revealing that Mediterranean sperm whales have different dialects by region

Sperm whales develop regional 'accents' across Mediterranean

Scientists found eastern and western Mediterranean sperm whales communicate with different vocal dialects

'Weirdos of the sperm whale world' appear to be evolving 2 different dialects, audio recordings suggest

'Weirdos of the sperm whale world' appear to be evolving 2 different dialects, audio recordings suggest

Different sperm whale ‘dialects’ detected on separate sides of the Mediterranean

Matriarchal groups in east and west exhibit distinct click patterns, used to form social structuresFrom “Howdy” to “G’day”, English – like other languages – is rich in dialects. Now researchers have found sperm whales on different sides of the Mediterranean show similar variations in their vocalisations.Sperm whales communicate vocally using sequences of short clicks called codas. However, the rhythmic pattern of these clicks, known as the dialect, can differ between different matriarchal groups. Continue reading...

Why whales are making Star Wars sounds in Aussie waters

Researchers are installing more underwater microphones to track whale migration in Australia and they are already hearing out-of-this-world calls.

Scientists Found Sperm Whales May Have Their Own Regional Accents

Just like people across the United States all speak English with their own regional quirks, it turns out sperm whales living in different parts of the Mediterranean may be speaking the same whale language with regional variations. According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, whales in the eastern []

Sperm Whales Living in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea Seem to Have Developed a Distinct Dialect From Those in the West

All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or a coda. But sound recordings suggest that eastern creatures use a sped-up version of the western whales' coda

Frame-Checking Generative AI’s Role in Transmitting News

Shealeigh Voitl and Andy Lee Roth As large language models (LLMs), a new generation of AI chatbots, and other forms of generative AI (artificial intelligence) become more widely used as information sources, it’s no surprise that many people are taking advantage of the convenience of AI search engine overviews. According to a June 2026 Pew Research Center report, []

What AI Earbuds Can’t Replace: The Value of Learning Another Language

Your host in Osaka, Japan, slips on a pair of headphones and suddenly hears your words transformed into flawless Kansai Japanese. Even better, their reply in their native tongue comes through perfectly clear to you. Thanks to artificial intelligence, neither of you is lost in translation. What once seemed like science fiction is now marketed as a quick []

Scientists invented a fake eye disease to see if AI chatbots could spot it, but the experiment took an unexpected turn

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers created a fictitious eye disease, bixonimania, to evaluate the accuracy of AI chatbots. Many large language models accepted this non-existent condition as real, emphasizing the dangers of misinformation. Additionally, scientists found themselves referencing bogus research papers without realizing their inauthenticity, showcasing how AI learns patterns from the internet rather than confirming facts.

AI decodes animal movements like language

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed an artificial intelligence model that interprets animal movement patterns in a way similar to how language models analyze words, the institute said Wednesday. The research team created an AI model called BehavERT that analyzes sequences of animal movements in context, much like a language model studies how words form meaning in a sentence. KAIST said the model independently detected core social behavior deficits

Never say 'yes' to these three questions from an unknown caller - it's an AI voice scam

A tech expert has issued a warning about increasingly sophisticated AI voice fraud scam phone calls - and there are three questions you should never answer with a 'yes'

Wenge AI gears up for Hong Kong IPO at valuation above HKD 10.5 billion

The listing will test investor appetite for decision intelligence as the AI narrative reaches a high point.

See if you can spot an AI deepfake with our test

Researchers in Aberdeen have been finding out if you can train people to identify computer-generated facial images.

Nigerian AI startup Talksign launches real-time sign language translation models

Talksign has launched AI-powered models that enables real-time, bidirectional translation between American Sign Language (ASL) and text or speech.

“Do We Really Want AI Going Over All This Information?”: Amazon’s AI-Powered Medical Visits Spark Debate

A viral video shared on X is drawing attention to Amazon One Medical’s AI-powered Direct Message Care feature, raising questions about the role artificial intelligence could play in prescribing medication. According to the video, Health AI takes over if you are interested in any of the prescription medications that Amazon shows on their website. The Sign up to receive the Daily Dot’s Internet Insider newsletter for urgent news from the frontline of online. The post “Do We Really Want AI Going Over All This Information?”: Amazon’s AI-Powered Medical Visits Spark Debate appeared first on The Daily Dot.

Foreign Surfers Find Missing Woman Floating Off Masceti Beach in Gianyar

GIANYAR, Bali – Foreign surfers riding waves off Bali’s Masceti Beach made a grim discovery on Wednesday afternoon when they – Read More...

TEKA SILANG KATA (SIRI 769)

Halaman ini menyediakan permainan teka silang kata dalam bahasa Melayu yang menarik dan mencabar. Teka silang kata merupakan permainan teka teki yang menggunakan huruf-huruf untuk membentuk kata, frasa atau ayat dengan menyenaraikan kata-kata silang dan menegak serta petunjuk jawapannya. Permainan ini menguji pengetahuan bahasa Melayu anda dan meningkatkan perbendaharaan kata. Jom uji minda anda sekarang. The post TEKA SILANG KATA (SIRI 769) appeared first on Utusan Malaysia.

Canadians unhappy with how they’re shown on U.S. TV shows

Writers Guild of Canada survey reveals we're peeved about 'funny accents' and more

The future of AI has nothing to do with chatbots

AI researchers believe the industry's fixation on large language models has created a kind of tunnel vision obscuring the path to truly intelligent machines

Anthropic Says Claude Can Mimic How The Human Brain Processes Information

Yesterday Anthropic launched a video stating that Claude was able to mimic how the human brain processes information. Calling 'the collection of these patterns the J-space—named after the technique we used to find them, involving a mathematical concept called the Jacobian. Miriam Vogel, President and CEO of EqualAI joins to discuss this as well as what this revelation means for future of AI. (Source: Bloomberg)

Israel launches regulatory sandbox to test autonomous medical AI systems

Under the program, the companies will run pilots with the goal of shaping regulatory pathways for AI systems capable of making clinical decisions with limited or no physician oversight. The post Israel launches regulatory sandbox to test autonomous medical AI systems appeared first on World Israel News.

AI chatbots can often feed into your delusions. Researchers say you should look for three signs

A Wall Street Journal report highlights three chatbot behaviors -- sycophancy, language mirroring, and hyper-personalization -- that researchers say can reinforce delusional thinking.

A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong

Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signaturesA scientist who decoded the dictionary that a bird uses to communicate has won a 100,000 prize for making progress towards a world in which humans can talk to the animals – without being met with a blank response.Dr Julie Elie at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2026 Coller-Dolittle prize for two-way interspecies communication after working out the 11 core calls in the zebra finch vocabulary and their meanings. Continue reading...

AI investment in emerging markets must go beyond models to ecosystems: Report

The report argued that AI is evolving rapidly from traditional pattern-recognition systems, to generative AI that creates content, to emerging agentic AI that can plan and execute multi-step tasks with little human help

Brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness

The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that patients under general anesthesia could still process language at a sophisticated level, distinguishing nouns, verbs, and adjectives while listening to stories. Even more remarkably, neural activity showed signs of predicting upcoming words before they were heard. The results challenge traditional ideas about consciousness and hint at new possibilities for brain-computer interfaces.

‘Cringe’ or acceptable? Alleged AI scenes in Coco Martin’s ‘Sigabo’ spark online debate

Coco Martin‘s newest teleserye project drew attention online after viewers pointed out scenes they suspected may have involved the use of artificial intelligence (AI). “Sigabo,” the action-romance drama that marks the latest collaboration between the actor and his real-life partner, Julia Montes, sparked discussions online over viewers’ observations about the possible use of AI in [] The post ‘Cringe’ or acceptable? Alleged AI scenes in Coco Martin’s ‘Sigabo’ spark online debate appeared first on Interaksyon.

AI meets Irish storytelling with robot seanchaí

An NCAD student has used AI to create a storytelling robot inspired by the seanchaí - traditional Irish storytellers - he grew up listening to.

Companies Hope To Save On AI By Having It Talk To Them Like Cavemen

After training the likes of Claude to mimic intelligent human speech patterns, it’s becoming more affordable to dumb these computers down

Meet Biomni: the free powerful biomed AI agent turning data into hypotheses

A Stanford University-led team including two Chinese researchers said they built the first general-purpose biomedical AI agent capable of working alongside human scientists, taking on complex tasks that once required groups of specialists. Jure Leskovec, a Stanford computer science professor who supervised the work, said the agent had been released as an open-source system with a web interface so that biologists could use it without writing code. “We have over 10,000 scientists all over the...

Britons are letting ChatGPT plan Spain holidays before checking the small print

More holidaymakers are using artificial intelligence to find flights, hotels and Spain trip ideas in 2026. But travel data shows []

The Hands-On Future: Skilled Trades, Data Centres and Canada’s Big AI Opportunity

For most regular folks, our first interaction with artificial intelligence (AI) was its appearance as a handy add-on to our favourite internet search engine, handing us information snippets atop the reams of search results. Parents of school- or college-age kids Read the rest The post The Hands-On Future: Skilled Trades, Data Centres and Canada’s Big AI Opportunity appeared first on C2C Journal.

Almost Half Of All LinkedIn Posts Are Now AI-Written Research Shows

When everyone's using AI to sound smarter, everyone's starting to sound the same.

People training new AI models admit they just get chatbots to do it

The next generation of AI models are meant to be trained by people paid to have conversations with them, but several of these workers have admitted to New Scientist that they simply get chatbots to do it instead. This AI inbreeding may reduce the power and usefulness of future models, warn experts

3 Reasons SoundHound AI Stock Could Keep Climbing

The company's bold bet is that voice assistants can become digital agents to do real-world tasks, a shift that could determine whether this speculative AI stock has much more room to run.

Anthropic built a tool that reads Claude’s unspoken thoughts. Then it caught the model scheming

Anthropic has built something close to a mind-reading tool for its own AI. What it found sits somewhere between a breakthrough and an unsettling party trick. Anthropic researchers now have the clearest view yet of what a large language model does while it thinks. In a paper published on the company’s Transformer Circuits site, they [] This story continues at The Next Web

A man of many words

Brian Sietsema has a favorite word. It’s somewhat surprising that he can choose just one. He’s the person spellers rely on to confirm pronunciations and answer questions about the roots of the words they’re given at the Scripps National Spelling Bee—arguably the world’s most prestigious competition of its kind. The story of how the word

Moderna, Inc. (MRNA) Discusses Advancements in mRNA Technology, Clinical Modalities, and Future Horizons in Science Transcript

Moderna, Inc. (MRNA) Discusses Advancements in mRNA Technology, Clinical Modalities, and Future Horizons in Science Transcript

The brain was never just a language model

The future of AI: the brain is much more than a large language model. It is a fusion engine, able to weigh multiple streams of data at the same time.

Marine Biologists Discover 31 Potential New Species in Just 2 Weeks at Sea

An advanced research vessel off the coast of Brazil has ID’ed a new cousin to crabs and lobsters, nine new jellyfish, and two gigantic single-celled organisms visible to the naked eye.