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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The U.S. military has helped dozens of commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz in recent weeks, according to shipping analysts. NPR's Kat-Lonsdorf reports. |
| 0:12.6 | In the past three weeks, around 70 commercial ships have transited a kind of pathway through the strait that the U.S. Navy created off the coast of Oman, away from |
| 0:22.5 | the Iranian coastline. It's dangerous for ships to pass near Iran without obtaining Iranian |
| 0:27.6 | approval right now, as negotiations have stalled to reopen the strait and end the war. |
| 0:32.6 | But this alternative and still risky route doesn't mean that shipping through the strait is |
| 0:37.4 | resuming. |
| 0:38.4 | The number of ships that have managed to pass through with U.S. coordination in recent weeks is still |
| 0:43.2 | very low compared to early February before the U.S. Israeli attacks on Iran. |
| 0:48.6 | The conflict with Iran and the closing of the strait has significantly disrupted global energy supplies. |
| 0:55.0 | Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Washington. |
| 0:57.0 | The company behind the hugely popular AI model, Claude, has started the ball rolling on an IPO. |
| 1:04.1 | Anthropics says it filed a draft registration for the stock listing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
| 1:09.2 | NPR's John Ruich reports. |
| 1:11.0 | Anthropics' brief announcement says the timing of the proposed initial public offering will |
| 1:15.1 | depend on market conditions and other factors, but analysts expect Anthropics' mega-IPO to come |
| 1:20.4 | later this year, along with two other blockbuster listings. Elon Musk's SpaceX and OpenAI, |
| 1:26.6 | maker of ChatGPT. Last week, Anthropic announced that after a |
| 1:30.3 | fresh round of fundraising, the company's valuation stood at $965 billion. That makes it bigger than |
| 1:36.6 | Open AI. The potential trio of tech IPOs comes at a time of great hype and concern about |
| 1:43.0 | artificial intelligence. |
| 1:49.6 | AI-linked stocks have been soaring, but polls show there's growing public concern about AI and the effect it'll have on society. John Rewitch, NPR News. Local law enforcement in 11 U.S. cities are making |
| 1:56.0 | final preparations for the FIFA World Cup starting in 10 days. As NPR's Martin Kosti reports a tournament, |
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