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EPISODE · Nov 30, 2023 · 18 MIN

Why was Sam Altman fired from Open AI? And other science news of the week.

from Science with Sabine · host Sabine Hossenfelder

Welcome everyone to this week’s science news. Today we’ll talk about the leading theories for why Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI, cosmic rays with HUGE energies, evidence of a an overdue supervolcano eruption near Italy, an exoplanet on which it rains sand, Microsoft’s first AI-chip, why spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are so rare, how climate engineering could save the Antarctic, cannibalistic stars, and of course the telephone will ring. The quiz for this episode is here.

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