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Julie Elie has spent a lot of time listening to zebra finches. Elie, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, ...

The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court is set to hear a case about the living conditions of two elephants at the Honolulu Zoo. The case argues that elephants Mari and Vaigai should be moved to a ...

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LeCun, who left Meta in 2025 to establish Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs), said existing AI systems are not designed to deal with the complexity of the real world.

Bumble bees astonished researchers by inventing a new way to reach a hidden reward, despite never being taught the trick. The ...

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