AI In Trouble With Trump's Security

 Nadene Goldfoot                                          

                                What AI looks like

Fareed Zakaria just told us this morning about an AI company that was given 90 minutes to get their product off the market.  What power!!!  Last Friday, the U.S. government did something extraordinary. It forced one of America’s leading artificial intelligence companies to withdraw its most advanced product from the market. Anthropic, the maker of the frontier AI model Mythos and its commercially available cousin Fable, was given little warning and, according to reports, roughly 90 minutes to comply.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) does not have a physical body; it is a set of computer algorithms. In the physical world, AI looks like everyday technology—such as computer servers, microchips, or a blank text box on your screen. Visually, it is often represented by circuit boards, glowing blue tech graphics, or shiny humanoid robots.

Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable are highly advanced, "Mythos-class" frontier AI models engineered for demanding software engineering, scientific research, and complex reasoning. Frontier artificial intelligence models like Anthropic's Claude Mythos and Fable 5 are highly specialized for rigorous, dual-use scientific and technical fields. Because of their advanced capabilities and potential risks, access to these systems is heavily monitored or restricted to qualified experts.

The two models share the exact same underlying intelligence but serve distinct purposes: 

• Claude Mythos 5: An unrestricted version meant exclusively for cyber-security professionals, government entities, and trusted infrastructure providers (via the Anthropic Project Glasswing program) to proactively identify and patch critical software vulnerabilities. 
• Claude Fable 5: The commercially available version offered to enterprise clients and general subscribers. It features built-in safety classifiers that prevent the AI from generating functional cyber-attacks or addressing sensitive biology and chemistry queries. 

Doesn't a business who invents something unique, and even perhaps got the patent for it have rights?

Businesses and countries keep competitor inventions off the market by acquiring, suppressing, or legally protecting them. This anti-competitive behavior is primarily achieved using sleeping patents, patent thickets, or government invention secrecy acts. 

It could be done most nicely and secretly.  Get the inventor in their clutches, wine and dine them, treat them like a king and offer a great price to buy the patent-or give them the rights to ownership somehow.  Evidently Trump was in a 90 minute hurry. Here's what happened with the AI invention:  

The Trump administration issued this 90-minute ultimatum to the AI company Anthropic to take its advanced "Fable 5" and "Mythos 5" artificial intelligence models offline over national security and cybersecurity concerns.

The  dramatic standoff—and Fareed Zakaria's subsequent critique—unfolded with these key specifics:

• The Catalyst: Security researchers at Amazon found a "jailbreak" that allowed users to bypass the AI's safety guardrails. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy directly contacted U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to alert the administration, leading to an immediate federal crackdown. Jassy is the son of Margery and Everett L. Jassy of Scarsdale, New York. Of Jewish Hungarian ancestry, his father was a senior partner in the corporate law firm Dewey Ballantine in New York City,  Jassy joined Amazon as a marketing manager in 1997. Early in his Amazon career, he helped run the company's first marketing team and later its compact disc business. He subsequently served as Jeff Bezos's first technical adviser, or "shadow", a role in which he accompanied Bezos to meetings and discussed potential business opportunities with him.
•  In 2003, he and Bezos came up with the idea to create the cloud computing platform that became known as Amazon Web Services (AWS), which launched in 2006. Jassy headed AWS and its original team of 57 people.
• In 2015, Jassy and Amazon executive James Hamilton helped lead Amazon's acquisition of Annapurna Labs, an Israeli semiconductor company whose technology became part of Amazon's effort to design its own data-center chips. In 2016, Jassy was promoted from senior vice president to chief executive officer of AWS. 
• The Ultimatum: On Friday, the White House and Commerce Department gave Anthropic executives just 90 minutes to comply with orders to pull the models down. 
• The Shutdown: Anthropic initially pushed back but ultimately complied by disabling global access to the models for all users. 
• The Political & Media Reaction: The ad-hoc, hurried nature of the ban drew heavy criticism, notably from foreign policy and technology commentator Fareed Zakaria. 
• In his Washington Post column, Zakaria argued that critical AI regulation cannot be governed by a "grudge" or arbitrary weekend bureaucratic fights. 
• He stated: "In its 90-minute demand to Anthropic... America was telling partners around the world: If your economy becomes dependent on American AI infrastructure, Washington can arbitrarily, and without warning or explanation, use its on-off switch." 
• Zakaria has instead advocated for establishing an independent regulatory body—an "AI Fed"—similar to the Federal Reserve to properly manage the industry.
• I'm wondering how many inventors have been bypassed by the USA interests and have gone to China, instead, to be bought and kept off the market because of competition.  I suppose this has been happening even in the USA as well.  That may just be classified as business, something very Democratic.  Here the inventor thinks it will sell like hotcakes and  reality is that no one will ever see it.  
• Anthropic's new Mythos model has sparked significant concern regarding its fearsome AI power and the potential risks it poses to global security.⁠ Sounds like it's good security to get it off the market. It's too smart.
• However, Mythos can hurt other businesses by accelerating cyberattacks to "machine speed," autonomously exploiting hidden software vulnerabilities faster than human teams can patch them. This leaves businesses—especially those relying on older, unpatchable systems in industries like energy and finance—vulnerable to severe breaches, operational downtime, and massive data theft.

How About Our Civil Rights? Who Do They Benefit?

 Nadene Goldfoot   

                                                               

Trump Says DEI, Civil Rights Policies Hurt White People. Do they?

President Donald Trump’s approach to civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act, centers on rolling back policies designed to remedy systemic racism, which his administration contends constitutes "reverse discrimination". 

Judaism teaches respect for the fundamental rights of others as each person's duty to God. "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor" (Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a). Equality in the Jewish tradition is based on the concept that all of God's children are "created in the image of God" (Genesis 1:27). From that flows the biblical injunction, "You shall have one law for the stranger and the citizen alike: for I, Adonai, am your God" (Leviticus 24:22).

In the United States, Jewish people are protected from discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination based on race, color, religion, and national origin. Furthermore, federal courts have ruled that Jewish people are protected against racial discrimination in employment under these statutes, as Judaism constitutes a distinct ethnic and protected group.

Employment Discrimination: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate against Jewish employees regarding hiring, compensation, or terms of employment. Employers are also required to provide reasonable religious accommodations (such as time off for the High Holy Days) unless it causes undue hardship. 

Hate Crimes: The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act provides federal jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed against individuals because of their perceived religion or race.

Housing and Public Accommodations: The Fair Housing Act and Title II of the Civil Rights Act prohibit discrimination based on religion or race in housing, real estate transactions, and public spaces such as hotels, restaurants, and theaters.

Specific actions and legal challenges have reshaped the enforcement of these historic protections: 

                                 MEDDDLING

• Executive Actions on DEI: Trump has actively sought to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across federal agencies, contractors, and universities, arguing that modern equality programs violate longstanding civil rights statutes. 
• Challenging the Materiality Provision: The administration has moved to dismiss voting rights lawsuits that invoked the Civil Rights Act of 1964, specifically targeting provisions that prevent states from rejecting voter registrations based on minor, inconsequential omissions. 
• Federal Voting Restrictions: Trump issued executive orders to create a restricted federal voter list, limiting mail-in voting and imposing new requirements on registered voters. Civil rights organizations contend these restrictions violate equal protection guarantees. 
• Disparate Impact Reversal: The administration has targeted long-standing interpretations of the Civil Rights Act by de-prioritizing enforcement based on "disparate impact"—a legal theory utilized to combat policies that unintentionally discriminate against minority populations.
• Black People: Are protected primarily under the Race and Color categories of federal civil rights law.
• Upgrade:  Jewish People: Are protected as a religious group under the Religion category, and are also protected under the Race/Ethnicity category. U.S. courts have ruled that because Jewish people share historical, ancestral, and ethnic characteristics, they are protected against racial and ethnic discrimination (e.g., under Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866).
• The two groups have a deep history of interwoven civil rights struggles. Historically, Jewish activists and organizations played a significant role in helping found and fund the NAACP, and they had a prominent presence in the marches of the 1960s.
• While both groups rely on the same overarching civil rights framework to fight discrimination, the specific enforcement—such as arguing racial bias versus religious bias—depends on the nature of the incident.
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• Vote wisely this time, as Whoopi Goldberg advises.  "This is on us": She regularly uses this phrase to emphasize that the state of the country and the choice of leaders falls directly on the shoulders of the voters. The Problem With Whoopi  is Constant : This is on us refrain. 
• Updated:  2:55pm, 6/21/26

Length of Hezbollah War Leading To End Of Times of Justice and Peace

 Nadene Goldfoot                                          

                                                                              

From Israel War Room:  TRAGEDY

: Lt. Col. Dor Gedalia Ben Simhon, 32, was one of four IDF soldiers killed last night when a Hezbollah drone or anti-tank missile hit their tank in southern Lebanon.

Ben Simhon, from Kibbutz Beit Hashita, was a commander of the 52nd Battalion in the 401st Armored Brigade.

Dor is survived by two daughters and a wife who serves as a combat officer in the Border Defense Corps.

May his memory forever be a blessing.

And Trump doesn't want IDF to defend Israel.

Trump or Vance complained about fighting terrorists or an army or two ever since Israel's conception in 1948. Yes, fellows, as if we Jews aren't a little more tired of it than you could possibly be. Remember, this fight follows the Holocaust where 6 million of us Jews were slaughtered. Before that, it was quite a fighting history with Assyrians and Babylonians; even told about fighting to stay alive in our Tanakh (Old Testament).

It would help if you bothered to find out the goals of Lebanon and Hezbollah that are widely known through their own statements. Why do they want to destroy Jews?

Do you not care about the Americans who died under Hezbollah shootings? Hezbollah is responsible for the deaths of over 260 Americans, primarily through a series of high-profile suicide bombings and targeted attacks in the Middle East.

Beirut Marine Barracks: On October 23, 1983, a massive truck bomb detonated at the U.S. Marine compound. The blast killed 241 U.S. service members (220 Marines, 18 Navy sailors, and 3 Army soldiers).

U.S. Embassy in Beirut: On April 18, 1983, a suicide bomber drove an explosives-loaded pickup into the U.S. Embassy. The blast killed 63 people, which included 17 Americans (mostly embassy staff and CIA officers).

Saudi Arabia: Operatives tied to Hezbollah were implicated in the 1996 truck bombing of the Khobar Towers housing complex in Dhahran. The attack killed 19 U.S. Air Force personnel.

Other Incidents: Several other individual Americans—including U.S. officials, service members, and CIA personnel—were killed in various hijackings (such as TWA Flight 847 in 1985) and kidnappings throughout the 1980s.

END OF TIMES

While there is no exact census, all major Abrahamic religions and several other global faiths feature end-times (eschatological) frameworks. However, predicting exactly when the end occurs varies greatly, with some groups—like certain Protestant sects and Jehovah's Witnesses—actively interpreting modern events as signs of the imminent end.

Beliefs regarding the end of times differ notably across major traditions:

Christianity: Emphasizes a definitive end to history, culminating in the Second Coming of Jesus, the final judgment, and the defeat of evil (Armageddon). Many evangelical Protestants interpret contemporary events as omens that the "end times" are unfolding.

• Islam: The Quran and Sunnah provide detailed prophecies about the Day of Judgment (Yawm al-Qiyamah), preceded by specific signs and the arrival of the Mahdi. [
• Judaism: Centers on a belief in the coming of the Messiah who will usher in a Messianic Age of peace, though traditional Jewish eschatology focuses less on global destruction and more on the restoration of Israel and the world to divine order.
• Hinduism & Buddhism: Rather than a strict "end of the world," these faiths feature cyclical concepts of time. In Hinduism, the cosmos goes through repeating ages (Yugas), with the current age (Kali Yuga) culminating in the arrival of Kalki to destroy evil and restart the cosmic cycle.
• Islam is the primary religion with this belief of there being a false messiah. . Islamic eschatology features Al-Masih ad-Dajjal (meaning "the False Messiah" or "the Deceiver").
  According to this belief, the Dajjal will appear before the Day of Judgment, perform false miracles, and deceive many people into following him and eventually claiming to be God. Following the Dajjal's reign of terror, the real Messiah (known as the prophet ʿĪsā, or Jesus) will return to Earth and, alongside the Mahdi (the rightly guided one), will destroy the Dajjal and bring ultimate justice and peace.

Because "end of times" spans everything from literal imminent destruction to gradual cosmic renewal, the exact number of religions holding these beliefs is not fixed.

Resource:

https://www.reddit.com/r/religion/comments/1o2gqi0/looking_for_various_beliefs_about_the_end_times/