This week the Trump administration released a much anticipated AI Action Plan, outlining the next steps in achieving global AI dominance; An AI model from Google DeepMind is helping historians to understand and restore ancient Roman inscriptions; a new Nature Reviews paper outlines how gene editing could help save endangered species, not by bringing back extinct ones like the wooly mammoth, but by repairing the genetic damage in those still around; a new clinical trial has shown a nonhormonal oral contraceptive that reversibly stops sperm production in men is safe for human use; and finally, engineered Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes have been shown to carry a naturally occurring gene variant that makes them much worse at transmitting malaria.
