Rats are constantly talking to each other. Boston is using AI to eavesdrop
Support WBURRats are constantly talking to each other. The partnership comes at no cost to taxpayers, because the work is research-focused. The project is currently in the data collection phase, with no set end date.In a single night, Basis can record over 10,000 vocalizations.“ There's a mating call.
- ▪Support WBURRats are constantly talking to each other.
- ▪The partnership comes at no cost to taxpayers, because the work is research-focused.
- ▪The project is currently in the data collection phase, with no set end date.In a single night, Basis can record over 10,000 vocalizations.“ There's a mating call.
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| Original publisher | Wbur |
| Canonical URL | https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/29/boston-rats-ai-voice-technology |
| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:34:04 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-29T20:37:33.586Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-29T20:37:33.586Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 4P60Z56nAqNR · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Support WBURRats are constantly talking to each other. In Boston, scientists are using AI to eavesdropPlay04:21Download AudioEmbed on your websiteClose×Copy the code below to embed the WBUR audio player on your site<iframe width="100%" height="124" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://player.wbur.org/news/2026/09/29/boston-rats-ai-voice-technology"></iframe>Copy embed codeEve ZuckoffSeptember 29, 2026 ShareA rat runs through a parking lot off of Harvard Avenue in Allston on Aug. 14, 2025.
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