—Casey CrownhartAfter writing about Quaise, a geothermal startup that’s trying to commercialize new drilling technology, I've been thinking about the role oil and gas companies are playing in the energy transition. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. Google DeepMind’s new AI can help historians understand ancient Latin inscriptionsGoogle DeepMind has unveiled new artificial intelligence software that could help historians recover the meaning and context behind ancient Latin engravings. It follows Google’s previous archaeological tool Ithaca, which also used deep learning to reconstruct and contextualize ancient text, in its case Greek. But while Ithaca and Aeneas use some similar systems, Aeneas also promises to give researchers jumping-off points for further analysis.