Are insects like honey bees conscious? How about AI systems like ChatGPT? Researchers have devised new ways to investigate.

You might think a honey bee foraging in your garden and a browser window running ChatGPT have nothing in common. But recent ...

A house cat stares down a leopard in a suburban backyard. The big cat growls, the child in the background freezes, ...

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In late 2005, five months after a car accident, a 23-year-old woman lay unresponsive in a hospital bed. She had a severe brain injury and showed no sign of awareness. But when researchers scanning her ...

AI is reshaping countless aspects of life. But so far, its applications have focused mostly on our singular species, Homo sapiens. What if humans used AI to better understand the nonhuman beings with ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. OpenAI’s new LLM exposes the secrets of how AI really works ...

Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought to be uniquely human. How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe ...

How much is that AI puppy in the browser window? Generative AI has been a fixture in recent social media trends, from the viral Studio Ghibli makeovers to turning people into their pets. Now, ...

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President Donald Trump holds his 9th cabinet meeting at the White House. by Denise Whitaker,KOMONews SEATTLE — Artificial Intelligence is now bringing shelter pets to life in hopes of helping them get ...