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The world moves fast. Daybreak keeps you up-to-date.
Enjoy everything you need to know to stay informed — on campus and off — in this digestible, efficient podcast. Daybreak is produced by Vitus Larrieu '26, Isabel Jacobson '25, and Eden Teshome '25 under the 147th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian. The theme music was composed and performed by Ed Horan, and the cover art is by Mark Dodici.
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For the Daily Princetonian, I’m Maya Mukherjee. You’re listening to Daybreak.
Today, we cover women's soccer's victory over Cornell, a Princeton-led study about recycling carbon dioxide, California's vetoed AI safety bill, and the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
It’s Monday, September 30th.
On Saturday, Princeton Women's Soccer won their game against Cornell 3-0. The match marked an energetic start to the Ivy season for the team, after the Tigers scored two goals within the opening 20 minutes. I sat down with Sports writer Lily Pampolina to unpack the game.
You can read more of Lily's coverage at dailyprincetonian.com or at the link in our show notes.
In campus news, a congressionally-mandated study led by Princeton professor Emily Carter recently published a roadmap for policies that would allow carbon dioxide recycling. The study suggests that carbon pollution could be reused for fuel and construction materials. Carter said that recycling carbon dioxide is a key strategy in the effort to reach net-zero emissions, especially because [quote] "we are never going to decarbonize civilization completely." Elizabeth Zeitler, another member of the research team, said that earnings from products made of recycled carbon could also help offset the cost of implementing other, more expensive carbon capturing and storing technologies.
In national news, yesterday, California governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill on AI safety. The bill would have required developers of large AI models to conduct safety tests to reduce the risk of cyberattacks and mass damages. The bill would only have applied to AI models that meet a certain computing-power threshold and cost more than $100 million to train, like OpenAI’s GPT–4. Newsom said that the bill would have [quote] "curtail[ed] the very innovation that fuels advancement in favor of the public good." Newsom said that he will partner with field leaders like Fei-Fei Li [class of] '99, the co-director of Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute, to develop different safety guardrails around AI.
In international news, on Friday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. The Israeli Defense Forces said that they carried out the airstrike because Nasrallah [quote] "had been advancing terrorist activities against citizens of the State of Israel." An Israeli military official said on Saturday that they did not yet know how many civilians died in Friday's strike, but over 700 have been killed in the recent Lebanon bombings. As of yesterday, seven top-ranking Hezbollah officials have died in airstrikes. Students for Justice in Palestine will host a vigil on Monday in part [quote] “honoring the people of Palestine, and Lebanon,”
Today, you can expect clouds, with a high of 73 and a low of 57 degrees fahrenheit.
That’s all for Daybreak today.
Today’s episode was written by Elaha Alizada and me, sound engineered by Theo Wells-Spackman, and produced under the 148th managing board of the ‘Prince.’ Our theme was composed by Ed Horan, Class of ’22. For the Daily Princetonian, I’m Maya Mukherjee. Have a wonderful day.
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