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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ai\">Artificial intelligence\u003c/a> is making life easier for some — and a lot harder for others. San Francisco-based AI firm Anthropic — which also developed the chatbot Claude — earlier this month released Mythos, a powerful model \u003ca href=\"https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/\">developers claim\u003c/a> can identify and exploit “vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthropic has only given a few companies — among them JPMorgan Chase, cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike and fellow AI developers Google and Amazon — access to Mythos as part of what it’s calling “Project Glasswing.” The goal of this partnership, Anthropic \u003ca href=\"https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing\">said\u003c/a>, is to use Mythos to prevent hackers (who \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/11/13/anthropic-china-claude-code-cyberattack\">are using\u003c/a> their own powerful AI models) from targeting the weak spots in the software that helps these massive corporations run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the high level of secrecy surrounding its model, Anthropic confirmed to KQED on Thursday that it is currently investigating a report of “unauthorized access” to Mythos through one of the third-party vendors helping develop the software. The company has not found any evidence yet that Anthropic systems have been affected or that the reported activity extends beyond the third-party vendor environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before this latest incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/mythos-anthropic-ai-explainer-9.7171597\">multiple cybersecurity experts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bessent-powell-warn-bank-ceos-about-anthropic-model-risks-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-04-10/\">global leaders\u003c/a> raised concerns about the power of Mythos and the potential consequences if this software fell into the wrong hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, KQED’s Forum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101913607/anthropics-new-ai-mythos-is-a-cybersecurity-game-changer\">spoke with\u003c/a> Alex Stamos, computer science lecturer at Stanford University and chief product officer for San Francisco-based AI firm Corridor, to understand why developers still move forward with creating such powerful technology despite the potential risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for the takeaways from his conversation with KQED’s Mina Kim, including insights on how folks who are not software engineers can sift through all the buzz surrounding this quickly evolving technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip ahead to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#WhyarecybersecurityexpertssoworriedaboutMythos\">Why are cybersecurity experts so worried about Mythos?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#WhywouldAnthropiclimitwhocanusethistechnology\">Why would Anthropic limit who can use this technology?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#IsthefederalgovernmentalsousingMythos\">Is the federal government also using Mythos?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#Whyusesuchapowerfulbutunpredictabletechnologyatall\">Why use such a powerful — but unpredictable — technology at all?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mina Kim: What is Mythos capable of?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Stamos:\u003c/strong> Mythos is a model that Anthropic has not released publicly. They’ve provided it to a very small number of large companies to use privately, as well as to some very important open-source projects to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthropic believes Mythos marks a large-scale change from the AI capabilities that have existed in the past. They’ve now been able to find thousands of vulnerabilities instead of just dozens or hundreds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we’ve seen in the past is that these things are really good at finding bugs, and they’re much faster than humans. But now Mythos is even better than the best human security consultants and security engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081283\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AnthropicAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AnthropicAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AnthropicAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AnthropicAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Anthropic website and the company’s logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Feb. 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Patrick Sison/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"WhyarecybersecurityexpertssoworriedaboutMythos\">\u003c/a>You’re describing an incredible tool to find bugs, holes and issues that we have not seen before so that we can defend against them. So why is it scaring people so much?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s scaring people because the first step in attacking a system is finding flaws in that system. In the cybersecurity world, we use a term called the kill chain. This is a term we borrowed from the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the military uses it, it refers to discovering an asset, doing reconnaissance, and figuring out how to deliver a weapon on a target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the cyber world, the kill chain involves reconnaissance, finding a flaw in a system used by a target, weaponizing that flaw, delivering the exploit, establishing command and control of the system, exploring the network, moving through it, and then doing whatever you want — whether that’s stealing data, shutting down a system, or encrypting it for ransom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major AI companies, like Anthropic and OpenAI, have released threat reports — building on earlier efforts from companies like Facebook and Google— that show how people use these platforms for malicious activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those reports show that advanced threat actors are using AI to automate other parts of the attack process, like exploring networks, breaking in and establishing control channels.[aside postID=news_12076608 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Billboard-AI-Illustration_6.jpg']What we’re seeing is attackers taking tasks that used to require human effort — and therefore had limits — and using AI to make them faster and cheaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And I imagine that our ability to patch or defend against these activities pales in comparison, or am I wrong? Do the patches exist, and are they easy to implement?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where AI can help. AI can find flaws, and it can also write patches. That’s the good news. That’s why Anthropic is providing Mythos to companies and open-source maintainers — not just to find bugs, but to fix them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we’re trying to do as an industry right now is fix vulnerabilities before adversaries can exploit them. There’s a race underway. The most advanced models — what we call foundation models, like those from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google — are currently ahead of open-weight models, many of which are developed by Chinese companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A listener writes: ‘Anthropic is releasing their models as a warning, but there’s no federal or state guidelines on this. Are we close to government regulatory action at all?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/23/trump-picked-a-fight-with-anthropic-now-the-administration-is-backing-off-00889241\">came down on Anthropic\u003c/a> because they thought they were too ethical … Of the major AI labs, I think Anthropic is the one with the most deep-seated ethical frameworks. I think we’re fortunate that they have the models that are the best at bug-finding, and they’re setting a good standard here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"IsthefederalgovernmentalsousingMythos\">\u003c/a>Do you know the extent to which the federal government is also using Mythos to search for and patch its own security vulnerabilities?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My understanding is that U.S. Cyber Command has been testing Mythos. Now the fascinating question is: How is the U.S. government going to use it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the National Security Agency, after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded#section/1\">Snowden disclosures\u003c/a>, there is the creation of this thing called the \u003ca href=\"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/External%20-%20Unclassified%20VEP%20Charter%20FINAL.PDF\">Vulnerabilities Equities Process\u003c/a>, which is the process by which NSA and U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079281\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Hegseth-Side-by-Side-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1460\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Hegseth-Side-by-Side-c.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Hegseth-Side-by-Side-c-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Hegseth-Side-by-Side-c-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks at INBOUND 2025 on Sept. 4, 2025, in San Francisco, California. Right: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens during a Pentagon briefing on April 8, 2026, in Arlington, Virginia. \u003ccite>(Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cyber Command — which have both a defensive responsibility and an offensive responsibility — are supposed to think about if we know of a bug, do we use it against America’s enemies, or do we get it fixed to defend America?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are they only gonna use Mythos to find bugs to be used against America’s enemies, or are they going to use it for defensive purposes? And what is Anthropic’s response going to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Anthropic put restrictions so you can only use Mythos for defensive purposes —or will they allow Mythos to be used for offensive purposes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can they even control that once they let them have access to it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know. I don’t think so. For the most part, my understanding is Anthropic’s models that the NSA is using and Cyber Command are probably running in \u003ca href=\"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/\">Amazon Bedrock\u003c/a> … what’s called Amazon’s top secret cloud, which means that Anthropic’s employees — at least those without top secret clearance — will not have access to any of the logs there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"WhywouldAnthropiclimitwhocanusethistechnology\">\u003c/a>A listener writes: ‘If Anthropic lacks capacity to handle Mythos right now, why release it at all? If they want big companies to evaluate it, why publicize it? Seems fishy.’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think it’s fishy. This is a normal part of any release process is that you have a small set of testers. They’re also improving it by doing this. Anthropic gets feedback on this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These people find bugs. They also find false positives. If Mythos finds a bug and JPMorgan Chase says, ‘This isn’t a real bug,’ then that goes back into the training set for the next build of Mythos. Anthropic, I think, truly believes they’re doing the right thing here by getting these bugs fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Whyusesuchapowerfulbutunpredictabletechnologyatall\">\u003c/a>There’s really no going back once this tool is out there, right? But I can hear people asking, why even build these tools in the first place? Why are they even free to do this in the first place if they’re so dangerous and can create such havoc? Is it just inevitable?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re getting philosophical. This is the core conflict at the heart of Anthropic, but also other AI companies’ reason for existence … Part of the argument here is it’s just math. Once these ideas were released, it was inevitable people would have this progress.[aside postID=forum_2010101913607 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2026/04/GettyImages-2269887514-2000x1331.jpg']It’s not like the atomic bomb, where you have to have uranium and a huge industrial base. This just requires laptops and graphics cards. Other countries, other people, other companies will be doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you believe that you can build an ethical framework to do it well, then you believe that you should do it first and do it correctly. In this case, you could try to mitigate the harm by finding all these bugs and getting them fixed or fixing the software first before other people do it and actually do it harmfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A listener writes: ‘You’re talking about cyberattacks on a large scale with large companies or countries. But what about me? Should I be worried about people hacking into my personal computer or phone or something?’ What can we do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About Mythos, nothing. That’s not something that individual people should be dealing with. The way normal people are hacked in 2026 is the same way normal people were hacked in 2016, 2006 and maybe even 1996. The number one way normal people are hacked is they use the same password in every single website all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get a password manager and put all your passwords in there. Have it generate random passwords and then have one really good password, and then you can write it down. I know people say don’t write down passwords, but that’s really stupid because nobody can steal the password in your pocket from Russia. If it’s in your wallet or your purse, they can’t reach from five thousand miles away and take it out of your wallet or purse. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before this latest incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/mythos-anthropic-ai-explainer-9.7171597\">multiple cybersecurity experts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bessent-powell-warn-bank-ceos-about-anthropic-model-risks-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-04-10/\">global leaders\u003c/a> raised concerns about the power of Mythos and the potential consequences if this software fell into the wrong hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, KQED’s Forum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101913607/anthropics-new-ai-mythos-is-a-cybersecurity-game-changer\">spoke with\u003c/a> Alex Stamos, computer science lecturer at Stanford University and chief product officer for San Francisco-based AI firm Corridor, to understand why developers still move forward with creating such powerful technology despite the potential risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for the takeaways from his conversation with KQED’s Mina Kim, including insights on how folks who are not software engineers can sift through all the buzz surrounding this quickly evolving technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip ahead to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#WhyarecybersecurityexpertssoworriedaboutMythos\">Why are cybersecurity experts so worried about Mythos?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#WhywouldAnthropiclimitwhocanusethistechnology\">Why would Anthropic limit who can use this technology?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#IsthefederalgovernmentalsousingMythos\">Is the federal government also using Mythos?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#Whyusesuchapowerfulbutunpredictabletechnologyatall\">Why use such a powerful — but unpredictable — technology at all?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mina Kim: What is Mythos capable of?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Stamos:\u003c/strong> Mythos is a model that Anthropic has not released publicly. They’ve provided it to a very small number of large companies to use privately, as well as to some very important open-source projects to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthropic believes Mythos marks a large-scale change from the AI capabilities that have existed in the past. They’ve now been able to find thousands of vulnerabilities instead of just dozens or hundreds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we’ve seen in the past is that these things are really good at finding bugs, and they’re much faster than humans. But now Mythos is even better than the best human security consultants and security engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081283\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AnthropicAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AnthropicAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AnthropicAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/AnthropicAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Anthropic website and the company’s logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Feb. 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Patrick Sison/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"WhyarecybersecurityexpertssoworriedaboutMythos\">\u003c/a>You’re describing an incredible tool to find bugs, holes and issues that we have not seen before so that we can defend against them. 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This is a term we borrowed from the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the military uses it, it refers to discovering an asset, doing reconnaissance, and figuring out how to deliver a weapon on a target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the cyber world, the kill chain involves reconnaissance, finding a flaw in a system used by a target, weaponizing that flaw, delivering the exploit, establishing command and control of the system, exploring the network, moving through it, and then doing whatever you want — whether that’s stealing data, shutting down a system, or encrypting it for ransom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major AI companies, like Anthropic and OpenAI, have released threat reports — building on earlier efforts from companies like Facebook and Google— that show how people use these platforms for malicious activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those reports show that advanced threat actors are using AI to automate other parts of the attack process, like exploring networks, breaking in and establishing control channels.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>What we’re seeing is attackers taking tasks that used to require human effort — and therefore had limits — and using AI to make them faster and cheaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And I imagine that our ability to patch or defend against these activities pales in comparison, or am I wrong? Do the patches exist, and are they easy to implement?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where AI can help. AI can find flaws, and it can also write patches. That’s the good news. That’s why Anthropic is providing Mythos to companies and open-source maintainers — not just to find bugs, but to fix them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we’re trying to do as an industry right now is fix vulnerabilities before adversaries can exploit them. There’s a race underway. 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I think we’re fortunate that they have the models that are the best at bug-finding, and they’re setting a good standard here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"IsthefederalgovernmentalsousingMythos\">\u003c/a>Do you know the extent to which the federal government is also using Mythos to search for and patch its own security vulnerabilities?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My understanding is that U.S. Cyber Command has been testing Mythos. Now the fascinating question is: How is the U.S. government going to use it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the National Security Agency, after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded#section/1\">Snowden disclosures\u003c/a>, there is the creation of this thing called the \u003ca href=\"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/External%20-%20Unclassified%20VEP%20Charter%20FINAL.PDF\">Vulnerabilities Equities Process\u003c/a>, which is the process by which NSA and U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079281\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Hegseth-Side-by-Side-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1460\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Hegseth-Side-by-Side-c.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Hegseth-Side-by-Side-c-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Hegseth-Side-by-Side-c-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks at INBOUND 2025 on Sept. 4, 2025, in San Francisco, California. Right: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens during a Pentagon briefing on April 8, 2026, in Arlington, Virginia. \u003ccite>(Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cyber Command — which have both a defensive responsibility and an offensive responsibility — are supposed to think about if we know of a bug, do we use it against America’s enemies, or do we get it fixed to defend America?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are they only gonna use Mythos to find bugs to be used against America’s enemies, or are they going to use it for defensive purposes? And what is Anthropic’s response going to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Anthropic put restrictions so you can only use Mythos for defensive purposes —or will they allow Mythos to be used for offensive purposes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can they even control that once they let them have access to it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know. I don’t think so. For the most part, my understanding is Anthropic’s models that the NSA is using and Cyber Command are probably running in \u003ca href=\"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/\">Amazon Bedrock\u003c/a> … what’s called Amazon’s top secret cloud, which means that Anthropic’s employees — at least those without top secret clearance — will not have access to any of the logs there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"WhywouldAnthropiclimitwhocanusethistechnology\">\u003c/a>A listener writes: ‘If Anthropic lacks capacity to handle Mythos right now, why release it at all? If they want big companies to evaluate it, why publicize it? Seems fishy.’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think it’s fishy. This is a normal part of any release process is that you have a small set of testers. They’re also improving it by doing this. Anthropic gets feedback on this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These people find bugs. They also find false positives. If Mythos finds a bug and JPMorgan Chase says, ‘This isn’t a real bug,’ then that goes back into the training set for the next build of Mythos. Anthropic, I think, truly believes they’re doing the right thing here by getting these bugs fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Whyusesuchapowerfulbutunpredictabletechnologyatall\">\u003c/a>There’s really no going back once this tool is out there, right? But I can hear people asking, why even build these tools in the first place? Why are they even free to do this in the first place if they’re so dangerous and can create such havoc? Is it just inevitable?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re getting philosophical. This is the core conflict at the heart of Anthropic, but also other AI companies’ reason for existence … Part of the argument here is it’s just math. Once these ideas were released, it was inevitable people would have this progress.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s not like the atomic bomb, where you have to have uranium and a huge industrial base. This just requires laptops and graphics cards. Other countries, other people, other companies will be doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you believe that you can build an ethical framework to do it well, then you believe that you should do it first and do it correctly. In this case, you could try to mitigate the harm by finding all these bugs and getting them fixed or fixing the software first before other people do it and actually do it harmfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A listener writes: ‘You’re talking about cyberattacks on a large scale with large companies or countries. But what about me? Should I be worried about people hacking into my personal computer or phone or something?’ What can we do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About Mythos, nothing. That’s not something that individual people should be dealing with. The way normal people are hacked in 2026 is the same way normal people were hacked in 2016, 2006 and maybe even 1996. The number one way normal people are hacked is they use the same password in every single website all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get a password manager and put all your passwords in there. Have it generate random passwords and then have one really good password, and then you can write it down. I know people say don’t write down passwords, but that’s really stupid because nobody can steal the password in your pocket from Russia. If it’s in your wallet or your purse, they can’t reach from five thousand miles away and take it out of your wallet or purse. Nobody mugs you for your password.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are we likely to see in the next couple of years with these models rolling out? What should we be prepared for in this sort of initial period?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our product road map at Corridor is three months long right now. Because if you plan beyond three months, everything has changed in our industry. For the first time ever, technology is building technology. From a security perspective, a lot depends on which of two futures we’re living in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the optimistic future, the bug curve flattens out. The superhuman capabilities end up not inventing entirely new classes of vulnerabilities. At least the types of bugs are the kinds we’ve seen before. There’s a finite number of them, and we’re just draining the swamp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pessimistic future is that these new things invent things that I don’t know exist. The hard part is, I can’t really guess because I am predicting superhuman capabilities here. For superhuman models that are gonna be invented by the models that exist right now. In the pessimistic view, we are going to have to work with AI to rebuild the systems that our lives rely upon, using memory-safe and type-safe languages, using formal models.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/a> again has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101913163/ice-looks-to-expand-detention-centers-including-in-california\">expanded in California’s Central Valley,\u003c/a> activating a new 700-bed detention facility operated by the for-profit prison company GEO Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the agency began transferring immigrant detainees to the McFarland facility last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/central-valley-annex\">Central Valley Annex\u003c/a>, brings the total number of active detention centers in California to eight, up from six at the beginning of 2025. They are all operated by private companies and they have a total capacity of nearly 10,000 beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of the detention centers that opened since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> took office had been used as private prisons until \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911292/whats-driving-californias-shrinking-prison-population\">California’s incarcerated population\u003c/a> fell to a level that allowed the Newsom administration to end those contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest figures show an average of about 5,337 people are being held in California immigration detention facilities, according to \u003ca href=\"http://detentionreports.com\">DetentionReports.com\u003c/a>. That number is up 72% from the average daily population of about 3,104 individuals being held in California in April 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This newest facility is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/10/ice-detention-center-inspections/\">cluster of detention centers in Kern County\u003c/a>, which includes the Golden State Annex in McFarland. It is unclear if GEO obtained conditional use permits or business licenses from the city of McFarland to start detaining immigrants at Central Valley Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People detained inside the Golden State Annex, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility run by The GEO Group, in McFarland on March 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates for detained immigrants said they did not have an opportunity to raise their concerns at public hearings before ICE began using the new site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want another ICE detention center in California, or anywhere else for that matter,” said anti-ICE detention advocate Edwin Carmona-Cruz about the new Central Valley Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Valley Annex is adjacent to Geo Group’s Golden State Annex, which is holding an average daily population of 565 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until 2020, GEO Group operated a cluster of private prisons in McFarland for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The writing was on the wall for their closure as private prisons because Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2019/09/27/california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation-ends-contract-with-private-prison/\">had committed to ending those contracts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democrats in 2019 tried to stop GEO Group from turning the sites into immigrant detention facilities by \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/11/governor-newsom-signs-ab-32-to-halt-private-for-profit-prisons-and-immigration-detention-facilities-in-california/\">passing a law to prohibit that use\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE signed a 15-year contract worth $1.5 billion with GEO for two McFarland sites and one in Bakersfield just weeks before the law went into effect. In 2023, a federal court found the state law unconstitutional, ruling it infringed on federal authority to enforce immigration law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the McFarland mayor resigned because the city’s planning commission deadlocked on GEO’s proposal to convert two of its sites there into immigration detention facilities. Then-Mayor Manuel Cantu Jr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2020/02/19/mcfarland-denies-geo-plan-convert-prisons-into-immigration-detention-centers/4792122002/\">told the Desert Sun the day after the vote\u003c/a> that the small city relies on the approximately $2 million annually that GEO pays in property taxes and utility fees to provide vital municipal services like water, sewer and public safety. [aside postID=news_12072450 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty.jpg']The private prison company appealed, though, and eventually was able to move forward in 2020 with opening Golden State Annex for its work with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GEO told the planning commission in 2020 that opening both the Golden State and Central Valley annexes would bring the town $511,000 annually in mitigation payments, along with well-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB29\">state law requires\u003c/a> a city or county to provide a 180-day notice and hold public hearings before approving or allowing the reuse of a facility for immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city clerk and city manager of McFarland, a small agricultural town with a population of about 15,000, did not immediately respond to phone calls and questions from CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Sweeney, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the facility opened “under an existing intergovernmental services agreement” that “has been in place for several years.” He said the Central Valley Annex began housing detainees within the last two weeks and that the agency would add the new site to its bi-weekly reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s newest detention centers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last year, CoreCivic, another private prison operator, opened a 2,560-bed immigrant detention center in California City, in eastern Kern County, on the site of another shuttered state prison. It’s the largest ICE detention center in the state. The company began detaining immigrants there in late August 2025 without acquiring necessary paperwork from California City, contributing to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/11/ice-california-city-detainee-lawsuit/\">legal and community opposition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to GEO Group’s website, the newly activated Central Valley Annex facility is accredited by the American Correctional Association and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. It previously housed detainees from the U.S. Marshals Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not immediately respond to a question about whether the facility is now holding both U.S. Marshal and immigrant detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unprecedented growth in people being held in ICE detention centers nationwide has been fueled by an influx of $45 billion delivered through the spending law Trump signed last year that he referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The Trump administration is aiming to hold more than 100,000 immigrant detainees on any given day as part of his massive deportation campaign. When he took office in 2025, ICE was holding an average of about 40,000 people per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State oversight of conditions inside\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Carmona-Cruz, the co-executive director of the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, said people being sent to Central Valley Annex “are at risk of the same terrible abuses and inhumane conditions that people in the ICE detention center next door have faced for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, detainees at the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex facilities — the others under the same contract as Central Valley Annex — have alleged abuse and dangerous conditions, including medical neglect, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/07/detainees-immigrants-labor-rights/\">being paid only $1 a day for labor\u003c/a>, being held in solitary confinement after reporting sexual abuse and inadequate food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to some of those previous allegations, Chris V. Ferreira, the spokesman for GEO Group, has previously told CalMatters that his company “strongly disagrees with these baseless allegations, which are part of a long-standing, politically motivated, and radical campaign to abolish ICE and end federal immigration detention by attacking the federal government’s immigration facility contractors.” He did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people being sent there are our community members, neighbors, family members,” Carmona-Cruz said. “ICE and GEO Group are incapable of meeting the human needs of the people they detain. ICE detention is not only unjust and unnecessary — it is deadly. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The private prison company appealed, though, and eventually was able to move forward in 2020 with opening Golden State Annex for its work with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GEO told the planning commission in 2020 that opening both the Golden State and Central Valley annexes would bring the town $511,000 annually in mitigation payments, along with well-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB29\">state law requires\u003c/a> a city or county to provide a 180-day notice and hold public hearings before approving or allowing the reuse of a facility for immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city clerk and city manager of McFarland, a small agricultural town with a population of about 15,000, did not immediately respond to phone calls and questions from CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Sweeney, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the facility opened “under an existing intergovernmental services agreement” that “has been in place for several years.” He said the Central Valley Annex began housing detainees within the last two weeks and that the agency would add the new site to its bi-weekly reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s newest detention centers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last year, CoreCivic, another private prison operator, opened a 2,560-bed immigrant detention center in California City, in eastern Kern County, on the site of another shuttered state prison. It’s the largest ICE detention center in the state. The company began detaining immigrants there in late August 2025 without acquiring necessary paperwork from California City, contributing to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/11/ice-california-city-detainee-lawsuit/\">legal and community opposition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to GEO Group’s website, the newly activated Central Valley Annex facility is accredited by the American Correctional Association and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. 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"content": "\u003cp>The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed by President Donald Trump last year, will cut an estimated $900 billion to $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade. Between funding cuts and big changes to enrollment and eligibility requirements, residents who rely on Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, are bracing for impact. 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And lately, Sejal has been thinking a lot about big changes coming to health insurance for low-income residents in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:21] \u003c/em>My personal fear is that patients in general, people in general don’t get the care they need as their health worsens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:32] \u003c/em>Californians who have Medicaid are bracing for big changes. And in Contra Costa County alone, up to 93,000 residents could lose their health insurance as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Donald Trump signed into law last year. 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And we get the state plan called Medi-Cal, which was administered by the State Department of health care services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:47] \u003c/em>So when we are talking about Medicaid in California, we’re going to be referring to it as Medi-Cal. And you spoke with folks who rely on this program, including a woman named Lisa. Can you tell me a little bit about her and where she lives and what’s her story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:05] \u003c/em>Yeah, Lisa lives in Richmond, she’s 58. She relies heavily on Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:11] \u003c/em>I am approved for cancer treatment at UCSF, which I know is probably very expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:18] \u003c/em>So we’re only using Lisa’s first name for privacy concerns. She has a lot of health conditions she doesn’t want others to know about. And so she requested for privacy that we only use her first name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:28] \u003c/em>I’ve been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which is very well controlled with really good, but very expensive medication. I have autoimmune disease, Hashimoto’s, thyroiditis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:46] \u003c/em>She has several different health conditions, including a blood cancer, chronic back pain, several other issues, autoimmune issue affecting her thyroid. And so she needs to see a lot of doctors, get blood tests regularly, and is on many medications. And so for all of this, she relies on Medi-Cal coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:07] \u003c/em>I see a hematologist, oncologist, cancer specialist at UCSF as well. So I am really praying I can continue to get my care there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:21] \u003c/em>If she were to lose Medi-Cal, Lisa would have to figure something out, maybe she would have to move, maybe should have to find some other plan she’s covered under. But when I first talked to Lisa she told me in no uncertain terms that losing Medi Cal would be kind of the difference between life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:37] \u003c/em>It’s not an option for me to just go get a job, even though I did work for 45 years, I’m just not able to. I definitely need to sleep 12 to 14 hours a day just to function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:52] \u003c/em>Of course, we’re talking about this now because a lot of changes are coming to Medi-Cal under Trump’s big, beautiful bill. What is changing for MediCal patients exactly? 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Without intervention, our hospitals and clinics across the country will be in dire straits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:06] \u003c/em>In public hearings, such as the Board of Supervisors meeting in December 2025, Grant Colfax, who’s the health director, said the changes coming through were unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Grant Colfax: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:17] \u003c/em>And by the numbers, while difficult to predict, EHSD estimates that as many as 93,000 people in Contra Costa County will be subject to these new rules implemented by HR 1 and the state changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:33] \u003c/em>Changes happen to the county kind of a couple of different ways. One is that the county is required now to process all of these every six month eligibility kind of packets. So that’s doubling the work that they have to do. So there’s an increase in the amount of resources the county needs to just implement these changes. There’s also a fear that the more people that lose the Medi-Cal, those people don’t stop using health services. If you break a leg, you break leg. And so there’s a concern that, with a lot of people potentially losing MediCal, they’re still gonna need the same ER services and the hospital services, but who’s gonna pay for that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:18] \u003c/em>Coming up, what’s happening inside local clinics in Contra Costa County as they brace for changes to Medi-Cal. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:21] \u003c/em>And I know you’ve actually talked with folks at local clinics in Contra Costa County about what they’re already seeing. How is it trickling down to these clinics now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:32] \u003c/em>Yeah, great question. So I talked with Amit Randhawa, who is the clinic manager for RotaCare West Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amit Randhawa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:39] \u003c/em>We are part of a larger organization called RotaCare Bay Area, serving uninsured folks throughout the Bay Area as far north as San Rafael and as far down south as Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:51] \u003c/em>And it’s a free clinic that he runs with volunteer doctors and other health care professionals and some social workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amit Randhawa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:58] \u003c/em>And we will serve anyone who is uninsured for any reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:03] \u003c/em>And so he said that in the first couple of months of 2026, he’s seen a big increase in the number of people asking about changes to Medi-Cal if they’re going to be eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amit Randhawa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:14] \u003c/em>And I’ve got to say some of the calls are just a bit distressing, you know, there’s a lot of people with fear and despair, it’s very scary, you don’t really know how to navigate the systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:25] \u003c/em>He sees a lot of fear in the community of not wanting to even mention anything about immigration status. He also mentioned that as much free care as he and the clinic want to offer, it’s not gonna be able to keep up with the number of people who are gonna lose their Medi-Cal insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amit Randhawa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:42] \u003c/em>I would hate to think that folks are going to be utilizing the emergency department more, but that is most likely what’s going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:53] \u003c/em>When I asked him at, you know, how ready, willing, and able are you to deal with this? He said, we’re willing, but we’re not able.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amit Randhawa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:02] \u003c/em>If folks don’t have any other way to access preventive care or seek treatment for things that could be managed. You know, ahead of time, they may just wait until things cannot be managed anymore and they end up in an emergency department. Who’s going to support all of these uninsured people and who’s going pay for the medical providers to provide that care? I wish I had an answer, but we’re all kind of in this together to figure out what’s gonna be next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:35] \u003c/em>One of the things that’s been tough is that you may not know if you’re going to be affected by these upcoming changes to Medi-Cal. And that’s because a lot of this is handled by the state, by the Department of Health Care Services. And they’re kind of in the process of figuring out who’s going to affected and who’s not. And does that mean that you get a letter in the mail saying, hey, just so you know, you’re going to to be effected? So a lot patients, especially the patients I talk to, were fearful that they were gonna lose their medical, but they didn’t actually know if they were going to be affected or not. And that contributes to, you know, an atmosphere of fear and concern and maybe not seeking the healthcare that you need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:14] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, I can only imagine the anxiety that that creates, which I guess to that point, I wanna come back to Lisa, who is someone who relies very heavily on Medi-Cal. I mean, has she been told anything about what these potential changes could mean for her specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:33] \u003c/em>She has not heard from the state if she’s gonna be affected, and I think that adds to her anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:39] \u003c/em>Even with a good RX, one of my psychiatric medications is about $4,000 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:46] \u003c/em>She told me that other people on Medi-Cal might start hoarding their medications, refilling their medications on the first date it’s available, even if they haven’t run out of the medication yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:56] \u003c/em>Even if I’m not out, I am cutting some of my medications in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:02] \u003c/em>And I don’t think anyone wants to do that. I think this is a response out of fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:07] \u003c/em>Just fear that she doesn’t know that she’ll be able to get access to those medications on the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:12] \u003c/em>Exactly, exactly.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:16] \u003c/em>Just trying to do the best I can with what I have, knowing what could be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:27] \u003c/em>I mean, how is Contra Costa County responding to all of this? It seems like there’s a lot of anticipation on their end. How are they responding to these changes at the federal level?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:40] \u003c/em>I think the best way to characterize it right now is that they’re taking these changes seriously. They’re also in a tough spot, because for example, they need a lot more funding for eligibility workers to check everyone’s paperwork every six months, right? And some of that also has to do with the state budget. They have started hiring more eligibility workers. They’re starting to prepare estimates for the hospital of what financial changes are coming up. And I would say the most notable thing they’re doing is there’s a ballot measure coming up in November, measure B, which would be, I think, 5 eighths a cent sales tax on goods sold in Contra Costa County. Theoretically, this money would be specifically for kind of shoring up the health care infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:24] \u003c/em>So, trying to fill in the gaps left by these federal cuts, essentially\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:30] \u003c/em>It could be a stopgap measure, but there’s no way it would replace lost federal dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:36] \u003c/em>I mean, Sejal, I feel like you’re describing so many trickle-down impacts as a result of these federal cuts, this squeeze on the county healthcare system, but also this like very personal everyday impacts to people’s health. Looking ahead as you cover health as a journalist, but also as a doctor yourself, like what is your fear moving forward for? Your patients are just people seeking care who could be impacted by these cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:09] \u003c/em>My personal fear is that patients in general, people in general don’t get the care they need and their health worsens. For example, for me as a pediatrician, I worry that if one of my patients who loses their health insurance doesn’t come to me for their cold that it turns into an asthma attack and then they need to be hospitalized. Another example for preventative care is mammograms. If there’s breast cancer that’s caught early, there may be an option to have quicker treatment versus if breast cancer spreads, there might not be a surgical option. Patient might have to go through chemo and radiation. I think that changes like this erode trust in the health care system, erode trust that I can just go to the hospital, I’m going to get what I need, I am going to be okay. There’s a lot of calculations people make of, well, am I going to afford my medications this month? Am I going afford rent this month. And so it creates a culture in which there’s so much uncertainty that that itself can also negatively impact people’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:20] \u003c/em>Well, Sejal, thank you so much for sharing your reporting with us and for joining me on the show. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:25] \u003c/em>Thank you so for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"\" title=\"\">\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And in Contra Costa County alone, up to 93,000 residents could lose their health insurance as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Donald Trump signed into law last year. Today, doctor and journalist Sejal Parekh explains how Contra Costa County is bracing for impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:11] \u003c/em>First, what exactly was Medicaid set up to do, and who is it supposed to serve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:17] \u003c/em>Medicaid was originally set up as a safety net, as a place where low-income people can get health insurance and so that their services can be appropriately paid for, that there’s not a lot of people without health insurance not getting the care that they need. Medicaid is this federal program, which is kind of a federal-state partnership, in which the federal government gives X amount of dollars and California chips in X amount of dollars. And we get the state plan called Medi-Cal, which was administered by the State Department of health care services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:47] \u003c/em>So when we are talking about Medicaid in California, we’re going to be referring to it as Medi-Cal. And you spoke with folks who rely on this program, including a woman named Lisa. Can you tell me a little bit about her and where she lives and what’s her story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:05] \u003c/em>Yeah, Lisa lives in Richmond, she’s 58. She relies heavily on Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:11] \u003c/em>I am approved for cancer treatment at UCSF, which I know is probably very expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:18] \u003c/em>So we’re only using Lisa’s first name for privacy concerns. She has a lot of health conditions she doesn’t want others to know about. And so she requested for privacy that we only use her first name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:28] \u003c/em>I’ve been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which is very well controlled with really good, but very expensive medication. I have autoimmune disease, Hashimoto’s, thyroiditis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:46] \u003c/em>She has several different health conditions, including a blood cancer, chronic back pain, several other issues, autoimmune issue affecting her thyroid. And so she needs to see a lot of doctors, get blood tests regularly, and is on many medications. And so for all of this, she relies on Medi-Cal coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:07] \u003c/em>I see a hematologist, oncologist, cancer specialist at UCSF as well. So I am really praying I can continue to get my care there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:21] \u003c/em>If she were to lose Medi-Cal, Lisa would have to figure something out, maybe she would have to move, maybe should have to find some other plan she’s covered under. But when I first talked to Lisa she told me in no uncertain terms that losing Medi Cal would be kind of the difference between life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:37] \u003c/em>It’s not an option for me to just go get a job, even though I did work for 45 years, I’m just not able to. I definitely need to sleep 12 to 14 hours a day just to function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:52] \u003c/em>Of course, we’re talking about this now because a lot of changes are coming to Medi-Cal under Trump’s big, beautiful bill. What is changing for MediCal patients exactly? What do we know about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:04] \u003c/em>Big cuts are coming. I think that’s the biggest point. The amount people estimate might be between $900 billion to $1 trillion. This will be over the next 10 years. Another big change is going to be work requirements for those aged 18 to 64. That might mean working a certain number of hours a week, studying some hours a weak, volunteering some number of hour, but the work requirements are going to new and required in starting 2027. There’s this new determination that those with unsatisfactory immigration status will no longer be able to sign up for new Medi-Cal. What does that mean? That unsatisfactorily immigration status loosely refers to undocumented immigrants. I don’t know if you remember, but a couple of years ago, Governor Newsom made a big deal about extending MediCal to all undocumented immigrants, and so this is clearly seen as a rollback of that policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:03] \u003c/em>Other changes coming to Medi-Cal are seen as new barriers to enrollment. Starting next year, enrollees will have to renew their benefits more frequently, every six months instead of every year. That’s expected to create more paperwork for personnel, too. And in Contra Costa County, new federal restrictions and state budget cuts could mean $307 million in losses for Medi-Cal patients there by 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:40] \u003c/em>This is something that Contra Costa County and really counties around the state and the Bay Area have really been preparing for these changes to Medi-Cal. 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So there’s an increase in the amount of resources the county needs to just implement these changes. There’s also a fear that the more people that lose the Medi-Cal, those people don’t stop using health services. If you break a leg, you break leg. And so there’s a concern that, with a lot of people potentially losing MediCal, they’re still gonna need the same ER services and the hospital services, but who’s gonna pay for that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:18] \u003c/em>Coming up, what’s happening inside local clinics in Contra Costa County as they brace for changes to Medi-Cal. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:21] \u003c/em>And I know you’ve actually talked with folks at local clinics in Contra Costa County about what they’re already seeing. 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So I talked with Amit Randhawa, who is the clinic manager for RotaCare West Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amit Randhawa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:39] \u003c/em>We are part of a larger organization called RotaCare Bay Area, serving uninsured folks throughout the Bay Area as far north as San Rafael and as far down south as Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:51] \u003c/em>And it’s a free clinic that he runs with volunteer doctors and other health care professionals and some social workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amit Randhawa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:58] \u003c/em>And we will serve anyone who is uninsured for any reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:03] \u003c/em>And so he said that in the first couple of months of 2026, he’s seen a big increase in the number of people asking about changes to Medi-Cal if they’re going to be eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amit Randhawa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:14] \u003c/em>And I’ve got to say some of the calls are just a bit distressing, you know, there’s a lot of people with fear and despair, it’s very scary, you don’t really know how to navigate the systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:25] \u003c/em>He sees a lot of fear in the community of not wanting to even mention anything about immigration status. 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They’re also in a tough spot, because for example, they need a lot more funding for eligibility workers to check everyone’s paperwork every six months, right? And some of that also has to do with the state budget. They have started hiring more eligibility workers. They’re starting to prepare estimates for the hospital of what financial changes are coming up. And I would say the most notable thing they’re doing is there’s a ballot measure coming up in November, measure B, which would be, I think, 5 eighths a cent sales tax on goods sold in Contra Costa County. Theoretically, this money would be specifically for kind of shoring up the health care infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:24] \u003c/em>So, trying to fill in the gaps left by these federal cuts, essentially\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:30] \u003c/em>It could be a stopgap measure, but there’s no way it would replace lost federal dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:36] \u003c/em>I mean, Sejal, I feel like you’re describing so many trickle-down impacts as a result of these federal cuts, this squeeze on the county healthcare system, but also this like very personal everyday impacts to people’s health. Looking ahead as you cover health as a journalist, but also as a doctor yourself, like what is your fear moving forward for? Your patients are just people seeking care who could be impacted by these cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:09] \u003c/em>My personal fear is that patients in general, people in general don’t get the care they need and their health worsens. For example, for me as a pediatrician, I worry that if one of my patients who loses their health insurance doesn’t come to me for their cold that it turns into an asthma attack and then they need to be hospitalized. Another example for preventative care is mammograms. If there’s breast cancer that’s caught early, there may be an option to have quicker treatment versus if breast cancer spreads, there might not be a surgical option. Patient might have to go through chemo and radiation. I think that changes like this erode trust in the health care system, erode trust that I can just go to the hospital, I’m going to get what I need, I am going to be okay. There’s a lot of calculations people make of, well, am I going to afford my medications this month? Am I going afford rent this month. And so it creates a culture in which there’s so much uncertainty that that itself can also negatively impact people’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:20] \u003c/em>Well, Sejal, thank you so much for sharing your reporting with us and for joining me on the show. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sejal Parekh: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:25] \u003c/em>Thank you so for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a>’s Civil Rights Department is warning that the Trump administration’s crackdown on federal housing assistance for families with mixed immigration status could leave up to 30,000 people in the state at risk of eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter this week, the state agency called on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to walk back the proposal, which it said would force thousands to confront “inhumane choices” between facing eviction or separating from their loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘We want them to withdraw this rule in its entirety,” CRD Director Kevin Kish said. “It doesn’t make sense. It’s going to harm people. It’s not going to help anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, HUD proposed a change to federal housing policy requiring that every person in housing that receives the assistance submit proof of U.S. citizenship or of their eligibility as a noncitizen (as a refugee, asylum seeker or lawful resident). Those unable to do so could be evicted from HUD-supported programs, like public housing or Section 8 vouchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have zero tolerance for pushing aside hardworking U.S. citizens while enabling others to exploit decades-old loopholes,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said at the time, adding that currently, only about a quarter of eligible Americans have access to HUD resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, a coalition of nearly 20 U.S. cities and counties, including San Francisco, Oakland and Marin County, also submitted a comment opposing the change, warning it would destabilize affordable housing operations. The National Housing Conference, which also submitted a letter, said the proposal “doesn’t fix a problem — it creates one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11738375 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36430_GettyImages-978854834-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl holds a sign during a demonstration outside of the San Francisco office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on June 19, 2018 in San Francisco over the Trump administration family separation policy.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36430_GettyImages-978854834-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36430_GettyImages-978854834-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36430_GettyImages-978854834-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36430_GettyImages-978854834-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36430_GettyImages-978854834-qut-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young girl holds a sign during a demonstration outside of the San Francisco office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on June 19, 2018, in San Francisco over the Trump administration’s family separation policy. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a step backward that undermines decades of policy precedent that already balanced statutory compliance, family stability, administrative feasibility, and prudent stewardship of scarce federal housing resources,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD policy already prorates housing subsidies for mixed-status households to ensure that the benefit only applies to family members who have confirmed their immigration status. Eliminating those prorated subsidies, Kish wrote in the CDR letter on Tuesday, would cause the number and quality of public housing units to decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HUD says that the goal is to make more housing available to eligible people, but its own analysis shows that won’t happen,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, household members who aren’t eligible for HUD assistance still contribute to the cost of housing. Kish said that HUD has estimated the proposed rule would require spending an additional $2,100 per household, which it anticipates would be paid for by reducing the number of households served by federal housing programs or by reducing the average spending on housing assistance.[aside postID=news_12079829 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/ImmigrantTaxes-GilsTaxServices.jpg']California has the highest percentage of mixed-status households in the U.S., accounting for about 36% of those that could be impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three-fourths of those families consist of children who are of eligible status, and parents who are not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Separation is not a viable option for these families, and they will therefore be forced out of their homes,” the letter continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, of an estimated 645 tenants who could be affected, about 210 are children and 40 are seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government should be helping to prevent homelessness, not making it worse,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said. “This rule would destabilize affordable housing nationwide, increase homelessness, and punish eligible people simply because of who lives in their household.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 70% of residents in mixed-status households have an eligible immigration status, the letter from the cities argues that the policy would be most harmful to people who are eligible for housing assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CRD also alleges that the proposed rule could lead to eligible seniors and people with disabilities losing their access to housing assistance, since all family members will have to submit to new verification procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Significant numbers of senior citizens, citizens of color, citizens with disabilities, transgender citizens, and citizens with low incomes may be disproportionately affected,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888806 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1031228044-scaled-e1776901494677.jpg\" alt=\"A man and young boy hold hands as they walk in silhouette on an urban sidewalk in early morning sun.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Honduran father and his 6-year-old son walk to Sunday Mass on Sept. 9, 2018, in Oakland, California. They were one of almost 2,600 families separated due to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kish said that the department’s intent in filing the letter is to establish a record of opposition — and require HUD to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to hear what they have to say in response to our arguments,” he said. “And then if the rule goes forward, our letter helps us set up a challenge because we also believe that the rule is unlawful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kish wrote in his letter that the rule is unlawful under intentional discrimination and disparate impact analyses. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“So I think that understanding will make all the difference,” said Christine Lehnertz, CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, which works closely with the Presidio Trust. “There’s not a budget to cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, San Francisco Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, whose district includes the Presidio, said he is surprised the president didn’t fire the board sooner, as half of their terms were set to expire nearly a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it’s thanks to work by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who helped create the Presidio Trust, that the organization can survive Trump’s budget attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi wrote in a statement to KQED that she is disappointed by the firings but said “previous Republican appointees to the Board have respected the Presidio,” and she hopes Trump’s will do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of any new Board’s composition, I have every confidence that the Presidio Trust will continue to be protected by the strength of the legislation which created it,” Pelosi wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new members of the board have yet to be appointed, but according to Petrie, the park’s operations will not be affected by being without a board temporarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The park and the agency will continue to run normally,” Petrie wrote. “The board provides overall governance and major policy decisions, but staff manage daily park operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherrill said he plans to hold the new board members accountable, whoever they may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to see people who love the Presidio, who believe in conservation, who have strong fiscal management, and who really love San Francisco and understand the importance of the Presidio to not only San Franciscans, but to the 7 million visitors nationwide who come through the gates,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House did not commit to a timeline for the appointment of new board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>House Democrats raised alarms about what they call President Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine the November elections in San Francisco on Thursday — while simultaneously reassuring voters that there will be free and fair elections this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Nancy Pelosi, along with four other Democratic members of Congress, held a “shadow” hearing with experts to push their message that Americans should trust local and state election officials and the electoral system in general. They also encouraged Americans to vote as early as possible this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I travel the country, what I hear the most from people, ‘Is there going to be an election?’” Pelosi said after the 90-minute hearing. “Of course, there’s going to be an election. There’s always been an election, even during the Civil War. But we anticipate a set of challenges now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi and New York Rep. Joe Morelle, the ranking member of the Committee on House Administration, said they are worried by both Trump’s rhetoric and his actions, including his ongoing, debunked claims of widespread election fraud and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/03/election-2026-midterms-trump-administration-federal-government/\">threats\u003c/a> to send immigration and other federal law enforcement to polling locations; his recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-03-31/trump-signs-executive-order-limiting-mail-in-ballots-california-leaders-say-theyll-fight\">executive orders \u003c/a>seeking to eliminate or curb voting by mail; and his support for legislation that would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5361192/house-elections-save-act-voting-rights\">make it more difficult to register to vote\u003c/a>; and his administration’s recent attempts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-09-25/justice-department-sues-california-other-states-that-have-declined-to-share-voter-rolls\">interfere with state voter rolls\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/02/10/nx-s1-5710649/fulton-county-2020-election-affidavit-fbi\">seize\u003c/a> election records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s hearing followed a similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-04-07/la-election-shadow-hearing-democrats-experts-defend-voting-systems\">forum \u003c/a>on Tuesday in Los Angeles. The events are considered “shadow” hearings because they are being held by the minority party on issues that Republicans won’t schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079333\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2269707908.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2269707908.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2269707908-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2269707908-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congressman Joseph Morelle speaks at an election hearing held at the Japanese American National Museum on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. The hearings, one in LA and one in San Francisco, were being held to address midterm elections under a Trump administration. Democrats have accused President Trump and Republicans of attempting to “take over our elections and attack our democracy. \u003ccite>(Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The panel said they believe most of Trump’s attempts to seize control of election administration from the states or change the rules governing voting are illegal, but still stand to confuse and intimidate voters. They noted that voter fraud is exceedingly rare and that American elections are considered incredibly secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take these threats seriously,” Morelle said. “Our job here isn’t to tip the scales for the Democrats. Our job is to make sure that the American people have their voice heard.[aside postID=news_12078913 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1697759766-1020x665.jpg']The problem is the president is unwilling and is afraid of the verdict that’s going to be delivered. … and that’s why he’s trying to change the rules to stop so many people from casting their ballot and exercising their franchise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco event, held at UC Law San Francisco, included Bay Area Reps. 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The Senate is planning to debate and vote on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, called the SAVE America Act. \u003ccite>(Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Little, the law professor, took aim at legislation championed by Trump and House Republicans, which would require voters to prove citizenship in person when they register and require states to submit their voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the measure, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act or SAVE Act, would do nothing to promote election security but would disenfranchise voters —particularly those without birth certificates or whose birth certificates don’t match their current name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current sponsors of the so-called Save America Act should be constitutionally ashamed,” he said. “There’s no demonstrated problem of noncitizen voting in this country. 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"content": "\u003cp>A federal appeals court in Washington on Wednesday\u003ca href=\"http://www.apple.com\"> denied\u003c/a> Anthropic’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72380208/01208838678/anthropic-pbc-v-united-states-department-of-war/\"> request for relief\u003c/a> from the Defense Department’s declaration that the company is a supply-chain risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling is the latest battle in the multi-front war the U.S. government and one of the country’s leading AI companies are waging with each other — even as they’re also reportedly working with each other in the war with Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A\u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/gov.uscourts.cand.465515.113.0_1.pdf\"> separate court\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/26/nx-s1-5762971/judge-temporarily-blocks-anthropic-ban\"> recently\u003c/a> blocked President Donald Trump’s broader ban on government use of Anthropic’s model, Claude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin said the ban “looked like an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/24/nx-s1-5759276/anthropic-pentagon-claude-preliminary-injunction-hearing\">cripple\u003c/a> Anthropic,” after the company went public about its dispute over the use of Claude by the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing … supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government,” Lin wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the three-judge panel in Washington wrote that “the equitable balance here cuts in favor of the government,” though it acknowledged Anthropic will continue to be excluded from new contracts and Pentagon systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079282\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2233287472.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2233287472.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2233287472-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2233287472-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Salesforce Tower is seen reflected in windows of 500 Howard Street, where AI firm Anthropic subleased Slack’s office, in downtown San Francisco, California on Oct. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The appeals court said that granting a stay would “force the United States military to prolong its dealings with an unwanted vendor of critical AI services in the middle of a significant ongoing military conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court set oral arguments in the case for May 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feud between Anthropic and the Trump administration publicly escalated in February. Following tense behind-the-scenes negotiations and an announcement from CEO Dario Amodei that he would not allow Claude to be used for autonomous weapons or to surveil American citizens, Defense Department officials responded with a series of punishments.[aside postID=news_12078982 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2264783645.jpg']Anthropic’s complaints lean heavily on statements by Pentagon officials on social media, including posts by \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116144552969293195/\">Trump\u003c/a>, Defense Secretary \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070\">Pete Hegseth\u003c/a> and others, as “evidence of ideological motivation,” as well as “arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of discretion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/gov.uscourts.cand.465515.1.1_4.pdf\">called\u003c/a> Anthropic “a radical left, woke company” populated by “leftwing nut jobs,” and Hegseth attacked the company as arrogant and duplicitous. Anthropic’s lawyers argued these posts expose the ideological, rather than national security, motivation behind the government’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-strikes-in-middle-east-use-anthropic-hours-after-trump-ban-ozNO0iClZpfpL7K7ElJ2?mod=article_inline\">\u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported that the Defense Department continues to use Claude in the war in Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re grateful the court recognized these issues need to be resolved quickly and remain confident the courts will ultimately agree that these supply chain designations were unlawful,” an Anthropic spokesperson wrote KQED following the appeals court decision in Washington on Wednesday. “While this case was necessary to protect Anthropic, our customers, and our partners, our focus remains on working productively with the government to ensure all Americans benefit from safe, reliable AI.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noted AI scientist and skeptic Gary Marcus said he favored Anthropic’s chances, and that the government’s supply chain risk designation “made no sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079283\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2268688942.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2268688942.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2268688942-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2268688942-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Anthropic logo is displayed on a smartphone screen on March 31, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At the moment Anthropic seems to have something of a technical lead, and it would just be cutting off DoD’s nose to spite their face to exclude them. Especially in wartime, that’s just ridiculous,” he told KQED by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/openai-wins-200-million-us-defense-contract.html\">OpenAI\u003c/a> swooped in to claim the $200 million contract Anthropic was negotiating for with the Defense Department. But the deal likely cost Anthropic’s rival more than that in subscriber defections alone. A \u003ca href=\"https://quitgpt.org/\">website \u003c/a>where people pledged to cancel their subscriptions claims OpenAI lost 1.5 million paying users, as the company faces an estimated $14 billion loss in operational costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The DoD contract is small potatoes in itself,” UC Berkeley AI pioneer Stuart Russell wrote. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>[This column was reported for Political Breakdown, a bi-monthly newsletter offering analysis and context on Bay Area and California political news. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.]\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend in San Diego, the California Republican Party’s worker bees, also known as grassroots volunteers, will gather for a statewide convention named “\u003ca href=\"https://cagop.org/convention/\">Turning the Tide, Together\u003c/a>,” and it will do so after a tsunami of bad news has washed over the party, dimming its prospects for the midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It kind of reminds me of the movie \u003cem>Rocky\u003c/em>,” said Jon Fleischman, a former executive director of the state Republican Party. “The first half of the movie just gets worse for him and worse and worse, and worse. And then he turns it around and wins in the end because he had come from such a low point. We’re still in the part of the movie for California Republicans where we’re trying to find the lowest point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surely one low point is Proposition 50. After Texas redrew its congressional maps at President Donald Trump’s insistence to benefit Republicans, California voters punched back — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062781/proposition-50-passes-in-california-boosting-democrats-in-fight-for-us-house-control\">overwhelmingly passing\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Prop. 50, which redrew the state’s lines to favor Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 50 was pretty, pretty harsh for Republicans,” Fleischman acknowledged. It’s not just the loss of their few remaining congressional seats. When more districts were competitive, “there was a lot of money coming into California to fight for House seats that is now not going to come to California at all,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other than a place to raise campaign cash, the national GOP, Fleischman noted, barely needs California anymore: “They don’t need to go through California to win the White House … [or] to have a majority in the Senate. And now they don’t really need to compete in California to have a majority in the House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came Sunday night’s Trump endorsement. Democrats had been fretting that nine of their candidates might divide the vote so badly that two Republicans — Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and former Fox News host Steve Hilton — could lock them out of the top two spots in the June primary. Trump throwing his support behind Hilton changes that math, and sends a strong signal to Republican voters choosing between him and Bianco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it definitely can help rally the base behind a candidate and generate some noise and some enthusiasm,” said California Republican Party communications director Matt Shupe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12078808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12078808\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SteveHiltonAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SteveHiltonAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SteveHiltonAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/SteveHiltonAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Hilton speaks during the California gubernatorial candidate debate on Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. He was endorsed by President Donald Trump. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While that might help seal the deal for Hilton, it could sink the ship for Bianco, a loyal Trump supporter who has plenty of support among California Republican Party insiders.\u003cbr>\nSince February, Bianco has seized more than 1,400 boxes of ballots from Riverside County – about 650,000 ballots – from the November special election in which voters approved Prop. 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/bonta-vs-bianco-petition.pdf\">sued\u003c/a> to block Bianco’s actions. 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