The field of acoustic intelligence is rapidly advancing, with a focus on developing innovative methods for analyzing and interpreting acoustic signals. Recent research has explored the use of acoustic signals for high-fidelity environmental perception, causal physical reasoning, and predictive simulation of dynamic events. Additionally, there has been a growing interest in applying machine learning techniques to medical audio signals, enabling automated analysis and potentially standardizing the processing of medical sounds. Other areas of research include non-invasive object classification using acoustic scattering and cooperative contactless object transport with acoustic robots. Noteworthy papers in this area include: MUDAS, which introduces a framework for unsupervised domain adaptation in multi-label sound classification, achieving notable improvements in classification accuracy. Making deep neural networks work for medical audio, which contributes to the analysis of infant cry sounds to predict medical conditions through neural transfer learning, model compression, and domain adaptation techniques.