News Summary

• The Trump administration is pursuing what it calls a new golden age of science.
• At the heart of it is a $5 billion artificial intelligence initiative.
• The projects use AI to accelerate research in fields ranging from biotechnology to nuclear energy.
• Some historians see key differences between this narrow new initiative and the first, expansive golden era of science envisioned by Roosevelt and Bush.
• of science in the u.s. has declined to comment on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's new initiative.