Has there been any significant progress on using AI to talk to animals?

A few articles like this one were doing the rounds early last year. Curious, are we any closer to communicating with animals?

This is an Ask HN with a linked article from early last year, but the bot removed the ask HN text. Oh well, curious on peoples thoughts.

Yes the title I put doesn’t math the article as my question is to the HN community now a year or so on.

Just birds and whales so far.