Tracy Mumford
speaker
8,408 appearances
117 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 5d ago
Tracy Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 109 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 22.
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The officials the Times talked to said Vance communicated those concerns in his private talks with President Trump, though they could not say whether that factored into the administration's decision to scale back its bombing campaign earlier this year.
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In response to questions from The Times about how Vance has gathered information on the war, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed that the vice president and other White House officials had been connected directly with commanders, quote, to ensure the president's team receives all available data points.
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Meanwhile, in the Middle East, an Iranian-backed militia made a major battlefield advance yesterday that could snarl global oil shipping even more.
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According to officials in Yemen, the Houthis there seized control of a strategic port city on the Red Sea, fighting off government forces backed by Saudi Arabia.
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With the Strait of Hormuz largely closed for months, the Red Sea has become a crucial alternative route for tankers and other ships.
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But the Houthis have been partially blockading it, firing on Saudi vessels.
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And this new victory puts an Iranian ally one step closer to controlling another critical maritime chokepoint.
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Also, amid all the disruption in the global energy trade, a new report from the International Energy Agency says that this year, the world is on track to burn more coal than it ever has before.
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For years, leaders in nearly every country had pledged to cut back on coal, which produces more air pollutants and more greenhouse gases than any other energy source.
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But with the current shortages of oil and gas, countries have been burning more and more coal to meet their power needs.
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The AI giant Anthropic released a report yesterday about the increasingly concerning ways people may be abusing the technology.
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The company outlined a number of incidents over the last few months where it said it stepped in to disrupt users whose actions set off alarms.
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That included Russian state media asking the chatbot Claude to generate online propaganda.
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suspected Chinese and Iranian government-linked actors using AI tools to try and target dissidents, and attempts to use Claude to design missiles, drones, and bombs.
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In one of the most troubling examples, Anthropic said it blocked possible efforts to use AI to build biological weapons.
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The report detailed how people located in regions that were supposed to be blocked from using the tech got around safeguards.
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In one case...
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A scientist asked for Claude's help with a project that involved mutating chikungunya, the mosquito-borne virus, in a way that would make it more harmful.
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The caveat to all this is that Anthropic says it couldn't determine what the user's motives were.
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That's especially hard when it comes to things like biological research, because the same kind of work that can lead to breakthroughs like vaccines can also help engineer dangerous pathogens.
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