Anthropic has launched Claude Code Security, an AI-powered vulnerability scanner built into Claude Code on the web, now available in a limited research preview for Enterprise and Team customers.
The tool is designed to flag subtle logic flaws that are difficult to detect through manual inspection. Its launch triggered an immediate and sharp sell-off across the cybersecurity sector.
The announcement marks a turning point in how security teams find and fix software flaws. Until now, identifying hidden vulnerabilities meant relying on experienced researchers to comb through thousands of lines of code. That method is no longer the only option and, in many cases, it is no longer the most efficient one. Security tools like Claude Code Security are beginning to upend these traditional systems.
Elliott Broidy, who leads Broidy Capital Holdings and invests in AI-driven capabilities for public safety and defense, believes that Claude Code Security represents a fundamental shift in how we achieve accurate vulnerability detection. “Instead of waiting for a breach to expose a weakness, security teams can now get ahead of threats before they are ever exploited,” he said.
Anthropic’s February 20 blog post, “Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders,” highlighted this evolution: “Security teams face a common challenge: too many software vulnerabilities and not enough people to address them. Existing analysis tools help, but only to a point, as they usually look for known patterns. Finding the subtle, context-dependent vulnerabilities that attackers often exploit requires skilled human researchers, who are dealing with ever-expanding backlogs. AI is beginning to change that calculus.”
Broidy also sees both sides of the equation clearly. “AI gives human researchers a force multiplier they’ve never had before, which is a game-changer for national security and the private sector alike,” Broidy said. “However, the same capabilities that can find a vulnerability in seconds can be weaponised to exploit one just as fast. Tools like Claude Code Security enable defenders to move at the speed of the threat for the first time.”
Unlike conventional scanners that flag known patterns, Claude Code Security uses reasoning to understand how software components interact with one another. Any vulnerability it identifies undergoes a multi-stage verification and reexamination process before reaching a human reviewer. Validated findings are then assigned a confidence rating to help security teams inspect and approve necessary fixes.
“Claude Code Security is meant to simulate the real process a human security researcher would follow when evaluating code,” said Broidy. “It can read the company’s software, flag potential issues and draft fixes. Ultimately, though, humans should make the final decisions.”
Markets responded swiftly following the announcement. According to Bloomberg, Crowdstrike Holdings fell 8%, while Cloudflare Inc. dropped 8.1%. Zscaler declined 5.5%, SailPoint tumbled 9.4% and Okta Inc. fell 9.2%. The broader selloff dragged down the Global X Cybersecurity ETF by 4.9%, leaving it at its lowest close since November 2023.
The selloff reflects a broader investor concern: that AI platforms capable of detecting and remediating vulnerabilities at machine speed could compress demand for legacy suites.
“The message from markets was hard to miss,” Broidy said. “Investors are now asking an important question. As AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI continue rolling out tools that can write and scan software code, the pressure on traditional security vendors will only grow.”
Investor concerns have been brewing. The tool builds on over a year of internal research and testing. Claude Opus 4.6, released earlier this month, helped the team find hundreds of previously undetected vulnerabilities. It also stirred up panic and triggered broad selloff across enterprise software stocks as investors fear the sustainability of traditional enterprise software companies.
As an AI code vulnerability scanner, Claude Code Security is a signal of where the industry is heading. The models are only becoming more advanced as the race to give defenders the edge in an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape accelerates.
“There’s no question that AI is becoming the backbone of how we protect critical infrastructure,” Broidy said. “We should be excited to integrate these capabilities while remaining hyperaware of the continued risks it poses.”
How the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization (ARCHER) is combining artificial intelligence, digital forensics, and philanthropy to identify, expose, and disrupt extremist networks before they spread.
In recent years, the fight against extremism and hate has become more urgent than ever. With rising antisemitism, violent extremism, and radical ideologies, the old methods of combating hate are insufficient in today’s hyper-connected world. As an entrepreneur I focus on investing in businesses that advance public safety and national security. I’ve come to realize that to effectively fight the forces of hate and irrationalism, we must innovate and combine cutting-edge technology with philanthropy.
The Changing Face of Extremism
Historically, extremism was something seen in isolated pockets of society: radical groups operating underground, often in the shadows. Today, however, the rise of social media, encrypted messaging apps, and global connectivity have brought extremist ideologies to the forefront. Radical, violent extremism, including virulent antisemitism which incites the susceptible and misinformed to violence, are no longer confined to hidden extremist groups; they thrive online, in the dark corners of the internet, and increasingly in public view.
ARCHER at House 88: A New Approach to Fighting Extremism
That is precisely why I decided to support the creation of the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization (ARCHER) at House 88, an initiative of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a non-profit, non-partisan organization that was founded in 2014 by Ambassador Mark Wallace, Senator Joseph Lieberman, and former Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend.
With my help, alongside philanthropist Dr. Thomas Kaplan, CEP purchased the former home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss at 88 Legionów Street (“88” was code for Heil Hitler because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet) in Oswięcim, Poland. The house, adjacent to the concentration camp, has been transformed into ARCHER, which represents a paradigm shift in how we combat antisemitism.
What sets ARCHER apart from other organizations fighting antisemitism is its relentless focus on action. ARCHER doesn’t just create programs that describe the horrors of the past or organize remembrance events, as important as those are, or research how many violent extremist or antisemitic incidents occur around the world. ARCHER develops AI-driven software tools to track violent extremist content on the internet, expose extremist networks, and disrupt the funding of terrorist and extremist organizations. The leadership and staff consist of former government intelligence officials, subject matter experts, and researchers who write important reports about existing an developing threats, and advise governments, multi-government commissions, and tech companies about how to counter these threats.
CEP and ARCHER use real-time data to identify hate before it spreads and strategically mobilize resources to stop it. In the fight against extremism, technology has proven to be both a weapon for hate and a tool for combating it. We expose extremist networks in reports, webinars, podcasts, social media, and traditional media to ensure that hate speech is no longer tolerated and allowed to proliferate under the guise of free expression. We are expert at finding all extremist content on the internet thanks to our partnership with the father of digital forensics, Dr. Hany Farid of the University of California at Berkeley. In 2016, Dr. Farid adapted his PhotoDNA software—designed to find missing and exploited children content on the internet—to create “eGlyph technology,” which enables social media platforms and governments to track where a particular piece of violent, inciting, extremist video, audio, or image has been uploaded and by whom. ARCHER is currently updating this software to enable platforms and governments to use general natural language queries to find all newly uploaded or downloaded extremist content, rather than searching for each identified piece individually.
Getting harmful and inciting extremist content off the internet, tracking terrorism finance globally, and teaching governments how to find and eliminate such material are all part of the arsenal ARCHER will use to counter the proliferation of extremist ideologies. Social media platforms like X, Instagram, and TikTok play an enormous role in the radicalization process, so it’s imperative that we hold tech companies accountable for the content being spread through their platforms. To help achieve that mission, CEP helped craft the language for the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act 2023, which requires platforms to take down violent extremist content or face severe fines. The law also requires platforms to use the type of technology that CEP developed to find such content.
Philanthropy in the Fight Against Hate
Philanthropy has always played a critical role in shaping our societies. As someone who has been privileged to support initiatives that promote public safety, security, and education, I’ve come to believe that fighting extremism requires not just government or military intervention, but active philanthropic engagement.
That belief is reflected in my work with The Fund to End Antisemitism, Extremism and Hate, which I co-chair with Dr. Kaplan. The Fund was created to support ARCHER at House 88 and ensure that the initiative has the resources necessary to develop its research, technology, and global partnerships over the long term. Initiatives of ARCHER’s scale require sustained investment, and philanthropy can play a unique role in helping ensure that organizations working to counter extremism have the independence and resources they need to act decisively.
That same sense of responsibility also guided my decision to acquire the original architectural whiteprint for the crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The document is a chilling reminder of how bureaucratic systems and meticulous technical expertise were mobilized in service of genocide. I acquired the document for $1.5 million to honor the memory of the 1.5 million Jewish children who were murdered during the Holocaust, many of them in crematoria like the one depicted in the whiteprint. That money will support the creation of a global early-childhood curriculum that teaches altruism and empathy—precisely the traits necessary to inoculate young children against extremism and hate.
I want the document to be studied and used as a powerful educational tool. It is irrefutable evidence of the Nazis’ genocidal intent and the thought and purposefulness that went into their attempt to wipe Jews from the face of the earth. My plan is to exhibit it at institutions dedicated to Holocaust commemoration and combating antisemitism before donating it permanently to such an institution.
Through education, action, and thoughtful philanthropy, we can make a profound difference in the world.
A Call to Action
We cannot do this work alone. These are global, whole-of-society problems and they require global, whole-of-society solutions. Each of us must take responsibility. As business leaders, philanthropists, and citizens, we have a duty to combat hate wherever it resides—whether it’s in our own communities, on the internet, or in the policies of other nations.
As we move forward in this battle, I’m reminded of a cry that has been seared into my consciousness from a young age: “Never Again.” The phrase was popularized by Elie Wiesel, the author of so many important works that described the horrors of the Holocaust and the genesis of the hate that led to it. But in his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech he added, “Sometimes we must interfere.” Hate doesn’t disappear of its own accord. We must fight to ensure that it cannot find fertile ground in which to grow.
In Conclusion
The future of global security and peace depends on our ability to work together—to harness the power of technology, philanthropy, and international cooperation to fight against the forces that threaten our shared values of tolerance, freedom, and human dignity. Only by working together can we arrive at a safer, more just world, one free from hate and the horrors that flow from it.
Elliott Broidy is an entrepreneur who has used his extensive experience and talent to found, invest, and in some cases, manage as CEO, more than 160 companies over his four-decade career. Since 2014, he has focused on technology businesses (including, more recently, AI) in the defense intelligence, homeland security, public safety, and law enforcement sectors.
At the end of 2025, an eye-catching headline appeared in several major news outlets: Robin and Elliott Broidy had paid $ 1.5 million for an original architectural drawing of the Auschwitz-Birkenau crematoria.
The fact behind the news was both significant and unusual. Private individuals rarely spend such a substantial amount on a single artifact, particularly one of such grave nature. In my 35 years working in this field, I can recall very few comparable acts. I wanted to understand the decision behind it in more detail.
It is known that only two original versions of this document exist: the one recently acquired by Robin and Elliott Broidy for philanthropic and Holocaust-education purposes, and another that was seized by the Soviet Army when it liberated Auschwitz in January 1945. The latter has been sealed in a Russian state military archive ever since, aside from a brief de-classification period in the mid-1990s when researchers were allowed limited access. It has not been available for review since.
Importantly, the amount the Broidys paid for the whiteprint was chosen to honor the one and a half million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust. This dedication tells you everything about the significance of their acquisition.
The above photograph of murdered Jewish children hangs in the centre of my husband, artist Michael Rogatchi’s studio, and always will. The children are at his side as he works, and he spends most of his time there. They are always with him.
So we understand the power of Elliott and Robin Broidy’s gesture completely.
White-print of mass murder
Before me lies a typical product of a European architectural bureau or engineering office from the 1940s: clean, sophisticated, precise, confidently drawn lines, all executed by hand, lending the document an unsettling authenticity.
You look casually at the document, yellowed with age. It appears to be a precise drawing of an ordinary house. Then your eyes reach the two vertical lines at its centre, and your heart stops: a chimney, disproportionally large.
No wonder the Nazis tried to destroy all material evidence of their unspeakable crimes. Yet according to first-hand accounts I studied in the Simon Wiesenthal Archive, Soviet troops approaching Auschwitz in January 1945 were guided by the stench of burning bodies. The crematoria were operating until the very end.
Once you recover your breath, you notice the German bureaucratic stamps surrounding the carefully drawn structure with its heartrending vertical lines. The images become much more than an architectural plan.
As it is known, the first large-scale Zyklon B gassing experiment occurred on September 3, 1941, when 600 Soviet prisoners of war and 250 sick Polish prisoners were murdered in the basement of Block 11 at Auschwitz. Following the gassing, it became evident that the existing crematorium at the Auschwitz site could not adequately dispose of the bodies. Within seven weeks, SS architects from Berlin arrived in Auschwitz to address this ‘problem’.
Architect Walter Dejaco and others spent two days – October 22 and 23 – with Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and others to determine the necessary scale of the new crematoria. The white-print in question is dated October 24, 1941. It is also known that the plans were later amended and expanded and presented at the Wannsee Conference on January 20th, 1942, as proof that their plan to eliminate all the Jews of Europe – the “Final Solution” – was feasible.
The aged white-print produced 85 years ago is clear evidence of the careful planning that made the worst crimes in human history possible.
Today, sadly and alarmingly, the historic evidence of the crimes against humanity is seen with an additional gravity in a new context of the unleashed hatred that intensified after October 7th, 2023.
We are now living in a time when irrational hatred of Jews is being normalized and spreading rapidly. Within days of the October 7, 2023 massacre – the worst mass-murder of Jews since the Holocaust – virulent antisemitic lies were spread across traditional and social media by the antisemitic zealots and those who are orchestrating the new “normality”.
Within one year of the attacks, antisemitic incidents reached their highest level since the end of the Second World War.
One recent disturbing example: at the 2026 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee ordered, produced, and sold merchandise featuring imagery from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which were a triumph of Nazi propaganda. This is a profound insult to the victims of Nazism and their families. Yet today it is a new normal, or rather an old one returning, because we have seen it before.
Personal dimension
I have been to Auschwitz many times, to work, observe, film, and think. It is a difficult place to be, as is any Nazi camp. Without being there, one cannot grasp the meaning of Nazism. The horrors of what happened there are beyond rationality. They can only be understood through raw feeling after having seen such a place firsthand.
It is for that reason that I worked with colleagues at the European Parliament to propose mandatory school visits to Auschwitz and the other extermination Nazi camps. The proposal failed, officially due to parental objections, although perhaps some countries were simply unwilling or uninterested.
I work in Auschwitz, I think about the camp orchestras. Three large ensembles: two male orchestras and one female orchestra. The latter was led for a time by my great-aunt Alma Rosé. So, Auschwitz is personal to me.
Prisoners recalled that the orchestras were forced to play, among the other grim compulsions, during selections, when SS men decided at a moment’s notice who would live and who would die. Who could forget such a thing?
Professionals such as doctors and architects planned and implemented the extermination of millions of people. Many architects were never held accountable for their crimes, or were acquitted at their trials, despite knowingly designing facilities whose purpose was mass murder.
An Acquitted Holocaust perpetrator
The white-print’s author was Walter Dejaco, an Austrian architect with no notable career before the Second World War. An enthusiastic Nazi, he joined the SS in 1933, when it was still illegal in Austria, five years before the Anschluss.
This unremarkable man – so many of them were unremarkable, including Rudolf Höss – thrived for the first time in his life during Nazi rule, and he proceeded with his tasks happily. He even joked on his architectural plans, writing ‘Auschwitz’ as ‘Au / Schwitz’ , a pun suggesting sweat. Such ‘humor’ tells you a great deal about the atmosphere in which the Auschwitz-Birkenau crematoria were planned.
My dear friend Simon Wiesenthal told me about Dejaco many years ago. Together with Auschwitz prisoner and writer Hermann Langbein, Wiesenthal tracked Dejaco for years. Dejaco had been held by the Red Army as a prisoner of war from 1945 in the camp in the USSR until 1949 or 1950, when he was inexplicably released.
So, one of just four architects who had planned and constructed the Auschwitz-Birkenau crematoria returned home and resumed his profession. He built parish buildings and was thanked and rewarded by local clergy.
After persistent efforts by Wiesenthal and Langbein, the investigation started in 1962. It took ten years before it reached the courtroom. Dejaco and two of his assistants were finally brought to trial in 1972.
It was a fiasco. One assistant’s case was dropped, and Dejaco and Fritz Ertl were acquitted on the grounds that they had acted under “duress”.
Dejaco died peacefully in his bed in 1978.
One detail from the trial still haunts me. The trial was public, but nobody attended it.
“The hall was empty”, Simon Wiesenthal told me. “ Just empty. You understand?”
I did. And I did not. I still do not.
“We did it for ourselves” – a couple ensures remembrance
But the acquisition of the crematoria whiteprints was a personal decision for the Broidys.
“We wanted to find a way to use the money spent on this terrible, but historically important, document for something good”, Elliott Broidy told me. “In conversations with Rabbi David Baron of the Temple of Arts in Beverly Hills, we decided to dedicate the sum, honoring the one and a half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis, to fund the Temple’s creation of a global curriculum that would teach empathy and altruism to children under five, inoculating them against the scourge of extremism”.
Michael Rogatchi (C). Faces of the Holocaust. 1991-1992.
I hope this new curriculum, teaching altruism, understanding, tolerance and humanity, will flourish. This is one of those rare stories showing that even the darkest history can, through human will, be transformed into something constructive.
Evil can, and must, be answered and overcome by good, even generations later. It can prompt us to rethink, revisit, and reckon with the most painful lessons of history and to draw from them, against all odds, understanding and moral clarity.
It is never too late, so long as the memory of every soul lost in the Holocaust remains alive.
This is a tribute to Judea Pearl, the father of Daniel Pearl, a reporter with the Wall Street Journal who was murdered in January 2002 by Islamist terrorists in Pakistan. Judea is also a world-renowned professor of computing at UCLA, where a lecture in honor of Daniel — to have been delivered today, Feb. 27 — has been canceled as a consequence of anti-Israel protests.
I’ve never had the honor of meeting Judea, but I’ve admired him from afar for more than two decades. He is among the bravest of men, and the finest of Jews.
Judea’s son Daniel was murdered because he was American, but most particularly because he was Jewish. His was the ritual execution of a Jew by evil men to whom all Jewish life was an affront. His murderers filmed Daniel’s killing, releasing a video titled “The Slaughter of the Spy-Journalist, the Jew Daniel Pearl.”
Imagine the lifelong anguish of his father, Judea, now 89. But imagine also his strength, his untiring resilience, and his refusal to lay down his weapons in the battle against antisemitism — or “Zionophobia,” the word wants us all to use instead.
In “Coexistence and Other Fighting Words,” an anthology of his writings published in December, Judea asserts that racist “anti-Zionism, not antisemitism, is the issue plaguing Jews today.” And he says that anti-Zionism, or Zionophobia, “earns its racist character from denying Jewish people what it grants to other collectives, namely the right to nationhood and self-determination.”
Zionophobia is particularly acute on American campuses, including his own at UCLA, where he has taught with distinction for 55 years. Judea had a bitter personal taste of it with the cancellation of today’s annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA after vociferous threats by students to disrupt the event. These promises of disruption were accompanied by threats by political science Prof. Margaret Peters to resign if the lecture went ahead.
The lecturer in question, Bari Weiss — editor in chief of CBS News — drew the ire of hostile UCLA students for her support of Israel. Agitators warned they wouldn’t let the lecture, on “The Future of Journalism,” occur.
UCLA has disgraced itself in the last two years, being among the universities that have let anti-Jewish campus protests spiral out of control after Oct. 7, 2023 and it was sued this week by the Department of Justice for allowing antisemitism on campus. In July, it agreed to pay $6 million to settle discrimination complaints brought by Jewish faculty and students. One centered on UCLA’s allowing the creation by activists of a “Jew Exclusion Zone” on campus.
Perhaps chastened by these legal consequences, university authorities said that they would “implement a comprehensive security plan” for the Pearl event.
But Weiss’ security team wasn’t reassured. She canceled out of an abundance of caution. And who can blame her? In the climate of unhinged hysteria in anti-Israel circles, who can be sure she wouldn’t be attacked?
In all of this, our hearts break for Judea Pearl. His son was killed for being a Jew in 2002. Yet 24 years later, at the very university to which Judea has dedicated a lifetime of teaching and toil, a lecture in honor of his slain son can’t proceed because the speaker wasn’t hostile to Jews.
Shame on UCLA for treating Judea Pearl in this way.
If anything was to be gleaned from last week’s Super Bowl ads, it’s that the AI war has officially become mainstream. Only days after launching new products (on the very same day, no less), both Anthropic and OpenAI aired primetime spots during the most important advertising moment of the year — a reminder that this race is now measured in hours, not quarters.
As artificial intelligence continues to reach and reshape global markets, the gap between rapid innovation and investor unease is becoming increasingly apparent. That tension was on full display last week as Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.6, its most advanced AI model to date, even as concerns over AI disruption, valuation risk, regulation, and economic volatility ripple through public markets.
Anthropic describes Opus 4.6 as its “most capable” model for business and knowledge work, emphasizing improvements in reasoning, reliability, and the ability to handle complex, multi-step tasks. The launch draws attention to a broader trend, as AI development continues to gain momentum even amid market volatility and investor uncertainty
Still, the market backdrop has become harder to ignore. Investors have increasingly questioned whether escalating AI infrastructure spending will translate into near-term earnings, especially as companies guide to higher capital expenditures for data centers and AI workloads. At the same time, regulatory compliance costs and liability questions are coming into sharper focus, particularly in the EU, where the AI Act introduces tiered obligations and significant potential fines for certain violations, adding another layer of uncertainty to how quickly and broadly frontier models will be deployed in high-stakes settings.
For Elliott Broidy, who leads Broidy Capital Holdings and invests in AI-driven capabilities tied to public safety and defense, the moment is indicative of a larger trend of rapid technological progress moving ahead, even as markets reassess the risks.
“Every major technological shift brings uncertainty to markets,” Broidy explains. “But uncertainty has not led to retreat. The technology continues to reshape fundamental work processes.”
According to Broidy, models like Claude Opus 4.6 represent a maturation of AI from experimental tools into enterprise-grade infrastructure.
“Businesses have moved beyond seeking novelty,” he says. “They demand dependable systems that can reason, synthesize information, and support real decision-making at scale.” Anthropic’s positioning of Opus 4.6 squarely toward business and knowledge work reflects the industry’s move from demos to deployment. The company has increasingly prioritized enterprise customers over consumer-facing applications to enterprises that rely on large volumes of data, complex analysis, and high-stakes judgment. These include industries such as finance, law, logistics, government, and national security.
“When an AI model can assist analysts, operators, and leaders in making faster, better-informed decisions, it becomes a strategic asset,” Broidy noted.
The launch also spotlights a growing divide between short-term market reactions and long-term technological developments. While investors worry about overvaluation, job displacement, and regulatory risk, companies and governments are steadily embedding AI deeper into their core operations.
“In national security and public safety, hesitation is not an option,” Broidy says. “Adversaries continue to adopt AI aggressively regardless of market sentiment, compelling the United States and its allies to maintain pace.”
Broidy points out that many of the most impactful AI deployments occur far from public view. Advanced language models are already being used to assist intelligence analysis, process vast streams of open-source information, generate operational reports, and support training simulations. In defense contexts, reliability and controllability are central concerns because official guidance stresses responsible and secure deployment.
“Instilling confidence is essential,” Broidy explains. “Whether it’s a defense analyst or a corporate executive, the user needs to be certain that the system is accurate, explainable, and aligned with human intent.”
The broader lesson of Anthropic’s launch is that AI fears and AI adoption can coexist, and often do. Market volatility may dominate headlines, but behind the scenes, organizations are making long-term bets on platforms that can deliver durable advantages.
“We are witnessing the industrialization of artificial intelligence,” Broidy says. “Models like Claude Opus 4.6 represent a shift toward embedding intelligence into the fabric of institutions.”
Looking ahead, Broidy believes the companies that succeed will be those that balance innovation with discipline. “Success will come to those building systems that businesses, governments, and societies can rely on when the stakes are high,” he says.
The launch of Claude Opus 4.6 signals this transition. AI’s role as foundational infrastructure is no longer theoretical. It is here, evolving rapidly, and reshaping how decisions are made, regardless of how rattled markets may feel at the moment.
This piece was originally published on JNS on February 18, 2026.
When I first saw the faded whiteprint, an architectural drawing of the earliest design concept for what became Crematoria II and III at Auschwitz-Birkenau, I felt the crushing weight of evil. This piece of paper with its neat geometric lines—so professional, so precise—was proof of the intent to incinerate the corpses of hundreds of thousands of Jewish men, women and children who would be murdered on an industrial scale.
I have dedicated much of my philanthropic work to support Jewish organizations and to combat antisemitism. I knew immediately that this artifact had to be brought to light, especially in our era of surging Holocaust denial and resurgent antisemitism.
That’s why I acquired the whiteprint for $1.5 million, a sum chosen to honor the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
The document, drawn by SS architect Walter Dejaco in October 1941, has been authenticated by Robert Jan van Pelt, one of the world’s leading experts on Auschwitz. Van Pelt has called it “quite literally irreplaceable.”
The whiteprint represents crucial architectural evidence of Nazi extermination infrastructure. It is a tangible link to the systematic planning behind the Holocaust and an irrefutable record of genocidal intent. Physical artifacts such as this provide enduring evidence of the Nazi pursuit of the “Final Solution.”
Yet preservation by itself isn’t enough. The whiteprint must be seen, studied and understood.
For that reason, I intend to exhibit it at various Holocaust museums and institutions dedicated to fighting antisemitism before permanently donating it to one such institution. Each viewing will be an opportunity to educate, to remember and to inoculate future generations against denial and distortion.
The proceeds from the acquisition will support an early-childhood curriculum designed to combat extremism and hate before they take root. By emphasizing altruism and empathy in young children, we can build immunity against the dehumanization that makes hatred and ultimately violence possible.
‘A particular responsibility’
The whiteprint acquisition is part of a broader commitment.
Working with the Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, I helped fund the purchase of the former home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss. At 88 Legionów Street in Oświęcim, Poland, the house sits directly adjacent to the camp where he oversaw mass murder on a scale that will forever be incomprehensible.
CEP has transformed the house into the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization (ARCHER) at House 88, which uses the very latest technology to disrupt the shadowy financial networks that extremists use to foment antisemitism, extremism and terrorism. What was once the home of a principal architect of genocide now houses scholars, researchers and activists working to fight against the mainstreaming of the evil Höss embodied. I serve as co-chair of the Fund to End Antisemitism, Extremism and Hate, which helps enable ARCHER’s vital work.
We are living in a time of acute danger. Antisemitic incidents have reached levels not seen in generations. Holocaust denial proliferates online, often cloaked in the dishonest guise of “just asking questions,” as it edges ever closer to the mainstream—a harrowing development. The survivors who bore witness to history’s greatest crime will not be alive much longer. And when they are gone, artifacts like the whiteprint, Holocaust museums and organizations like ARCHER will become our primary vehicles for transmitting memory and combating lies.
The Jewish philanthropic community carries a particular responsibility. We cannot shirk it. We must support education that cultivates moral responsibility and seriousness; fund research that exposes and disrupts contemporary forms of antisemitism; preserve and display evidence of the Holocaust (in addition to the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the most devastating massacre since the Holocaust); and build communal institutions that will outlast our lifetimes.
We must confront the most dangerous form of contemporary antisemitism: the systematic delegitimization of the State of Israel.
We must push back against those who accuse Israel of committing genocide, a modern-day blood libel that was once confined to the fringes of radical academia, but has escaped containment into the broader discourse around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
We must proudly support Israel and champion a strong U.S.-Israel relationship. We can differ in our views of particular Israeli policies, but we must never lose sight of what is at stake: the survival and security of the world’s only Jewish state, home to nearly half the Jews on the planet.
For a small people—there are only about 16 million Jews in the world today, fewer than on the eve of World War II—this work is not optional.
Elie Wiesel moved beyond vowing “Never Again” in his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, insisting instead: “Sometimes, we must interfere.”
Fighting antisemitism must be a sustained commitment expressed through action, scholarship and memory.
Florida-based philanthropist and businessman Elliott Broidy, joined by his wife, Robin, speaks with The Baltimore Sun about acquiring for $1.5 million an original 1941 whiteprint of the Auschwitz-Birkenau crematoria, a document that embodies the calculated architecture of genocide during the Holocaust.
The preservation of this whiteprint is more than historical stewardship. It is an act of resistance against denial, distortion and forgetfulness. Primary evidence anchors collective memory, and a healthy democracy depends on shared facts. The interview has been edited for length and clarity
What is the historical significance of this original whiteprint?
Elliott Broidy: This document is the front elevation of the crematoria building at Auschwitz-Birkenau, dated Oct. 24, 1941. It was created by SS architect Walter Dejaco under the direction of commandant Rudolf Höss. It shows the size, scale and smokestack of the structure — the physical infrastructure that would become central to industrialized murder.
This was not spontaneous evil. It was engineered: deliberate, technical, bureaucratic. It reflects the earliest architectural conception of how a prison complex evolved into a mechanized killing site. That precision is what makes it so chilling.
Why did you feel compelled to secure it?
EB: Only two such documents are known to exist. One was last documented in Russia in 1991. When this surfaced, I believed it needed to be preserved, not hidden or lost to private hands.
It demonstrates the intentionality behind genocide, how ideology became design and design became machinery. It exposes the cold, administrative nature of what occurred. It is proof not only of horror, but of planning.
How did it survive from 1945 until now?
EB: A rabbi in California received it years ago. It had reportedly been purchased at a neo-Nazi gathering in Germany, without full awareness of its historical weight.
We believe someone originally removed it from an architectural office at Auschwitz and concealed it. Decades later, it resurfaced. When it was examined by a former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the October 1941 date immediately signaled its importance; it placed the design at a critical early phase of the camp’s transformation.
In November, Elliott and Robin Broidy of Boca Raton paid $1.5 million for an old drawing. Not a piece of fine art, but an architectural sketch drawn on cheap newsprint dated Oct. 24, 1941.
The landscape-oriented drawing, about 3 feet long and 2 feet wide, is sepia-toned with age and protected by plastic; it depicts a house of horrors: the crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where millions of Jews were systematically exterminated.
What the Broidys now own is one of only two known original drawings produced in preparation for meetings where the logistics of killing Jews on an industrial scale would be discussed.
“The drawing we have is clear proof of genocidal intent,” Elliott Broidy wrote in a Nov. 21 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. “To behold it is to confront the deliberate design of evil. My most sincere wish is for this whiteprint to be memorialized as part of an irrefutable body of evidence that negates Holocaust denial and helps to forever silence malevolent revisionists while also educating new generations about the lessons of the Holocaust.”
Robin Broidy recalled the first time she stood before the drawing:“It’s a horrible feeling. You’re standing so close to evil. These people created this document that you’re holding in your hands with the purpose of murdering, exterminating, terminating mass numbers of people. And you’re just, you’re sad.”
The document itself is nothing special: “The paper isn’t premium,” Robin Broidy said. In wartime paper is expensive. “They were doing as much as possible on very cheap paper, so all the blueprints are on low-quality paper.”
The significance of the document lies in the date. Drawn by SS architect Walter Dejaco under the authority of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, it’s the snapshot of the moment when the men who planned the execution of millions of Jews actually put pen to paper and drew up the plan for the place the extermination would happen. The whiteprint is stark and irrefutable proof that the Shoah, the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, was conceived months before the announcement of the “final solution” in January 1942 at the Wannsee Conference.
The Broidys purchased the artifact from Rabbi David Baron of Temple of the Arts Synagogue in Beverly Hills, who had received it from a friend of a congregant who had bought it at a Nazi memorabilia auction in Germany. Neither the buyer nor seller was aware of its historical significance. According to journalist Benjamin Raziel of Forbes, the Nazis understood the power of documentation and they tried to destroy as many records as possible as the Allies approached, so finding artifacts of this import is rare.
Professor Robert Jan van Pelt, the foremost expert on Auschwitz architecture, authenticated the document, but when asked to place a value on it, Robin Broidy said, “He couldn’t. He said, ‘I can’t value it. It’s priceless.’”
In an act of remembrance and reverence, the Broidys agreed to pay $1.5 million to the Temple of the Arts for the drawing. The money would be earmarked for Baron to use to create a global early-childhood curriculum promoting empathy and altruism. The rabbi’s curriculum aims to reach children when they are young, long before extremist ideologies can take root.
“He has done research that indicates that children’s values are formed between zero to 5,” Robin said. “Therefore, if you can teach children altruism, empathy and listening to another person’s point of view then, they will be less likely to become an extremist and less likely to create hateful attitudes.”
That you become what you are taught isn’t a new idea, but Robin said, “Education is always the key. Education is the key to succeeding in life and to being a good person, getting your values straight.”
It’s also quite simple. Robin likes to tell the classic story of Rabbi Hillel, who was asked, “Can you teach the entire Torah standing on one foot?” Robin says his answer is the answer: “Sure I can. Whatever is hateful to you, do not do unto others. That’s what Jews are taught from their infancy.”
Baron told the Broidys how much money he would need to start his program, and they settled on a number. “It was a number that had some meaning,” Elliott said, “because out of the 6 million that died, 1.5 million were children.”
It’s not the first time the Broidys have stepped up like this. They’ve been actively fighting antisemitism and extremism for years. Their support turned “hell-on-earth” into a symbol of truth and light when the Counter Extremism Project transformed Rudolf Höss’ residence at 88 Legionow St. into the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization (ARCHER) at House 88.
The lovely private villa with its gardens and swimming pool where the Höss family lived in comfort and affluence — Höss’ wife called it “paradise” — sits just outside the fence of Auschwitz. The Höss children played under skies darkened by the smoke rising from the crematoria next door. While they hosted lavish parties with decadent food, Jews starved just feet away.
Today the property has a mezuzah on its front door. ARCHER at House 88’s goal and message are to turn a site of mass murder into a global center dedicated to exposing the machinery of hate and educating the world. Education must begin with children, but it has to continue through adulthood. Truly, no dog is too old to learn.
Today’s battle is against misinformation and how easily it spreads. Researchers and educators, policymakers and activists work to prevent the spread of online extremism, promote safety on digital platforms and counter misinformation and radicalization.
“What ARCHER is fighting against is the mainstreaming of extremism — the same propaganda, the same misinformation, the same lies that enabled the Germans and the SS to be able to do this without a second thought, without remorse, without thinking,” Robin Broidy said. “That is the message that we are trying to send to today’s young people. Anytime somebody tries to tell you that the other someone else is less than human, don’t believe them.”
The fight continues right in our own backyard.
In January, several news agencies, including WPEC CBS12, reported that Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies had investigated a swastika and racial slurs painted on the pavement outside Florida Cancer Specialists, a medical office plaza in West Boca. An employee discovered the white lettering which targeted both Jewish and Black communities. A discarded paintbrush and empty paint can were recovered nearby but no usable fingerprints were found. The damage was estimated at about $500, and the graffiti was quickly removed. But the implications will last.
Antisemitism is part of being a Jew, but Jews don’t fight hate with hate, Robin says: “You move on, and you try to show the world that you’re decent, wonderful human beings. You try to be positive, try to educate.”
To that end, the Broidys plan to display the whiteprint at institutions and organizations dedicated to combating antisemitism and preserving the memory of the Holocaust, before making a long-term gift of it to one institution. “Probably the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum,” Elliott said.
The Broidys relocated to Boca Raton from Los Angeles to be closer to their children, grandchildren and about three dozen of Robin’s relatives. Elliott, chairman and CEO of Broidy Capital Holdings, is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist with a career spanning four decades. Robin is a former film producer and movie executive who with Elliott has been devoted to the fight against antisemitism — they call it “our major fight” — for decades.
Philanthropically, the Broidys support organizations dedicated to countering antisemitism, hate and extremism, including the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab (CELL), the George Washington University Program on Extremism, and StandWithUs.
“This document is our way of changing the world a little bit, if possible, and that’s no small feat,” Elliott said.
This article was originally published in Smartech Daily.
By Spencer Hulse
Agentic AI cybersecurity represents a fundamental shift in how organizations must defend against digital threats. Unlike traditional generative AI tools that require human direction, agentic AI systems independently plan, execute, and adapt their actions, creating an entirely new attack surface that challenges conventional cybersecurity defenses. These autonomous AI agents are reshaping both offensive and defensive strategies across the cyber landscape.
Historically, cyber threats have required significant manual effort and technical skill. AI has made the process much quicker by automating and accelerating various malicious activities, executing thousands of actions simultaneously and at machine speed. Now, attackers can go after everyday tools such as firewalls, browser add-ons, and smart TVs to turn small cracks into serious breaches. AI models can follow complicated instructions, understand nuanced context, and act as autonomous agents with minimal human input.
The Scale of Automated Attacks
AI-assisted data breaches have significantly increased in frequency. According to Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs 2025 Global Threat Landscape report, the number of malicious scans conducted by attackers increased by 16.7% from 2024, with cybercriminals conducting approximately 36,000 malicious scans per second. The report recorded over 97 billion exploitation attempts during the year, reflecting “increased automation and broader targeting across industries.”
“The consequences of cyber attacks, including financial losses, reputational damage, and operational disruption, can be catastrophic for companies,” said Elliott Broidy, Chairman and CEO of Broidy Capital Holdings, LLC, a seasoned entrepreneur and investor with extensive experience in national security technology and defense tech. “Business leaders must pay close attention to the ways in which artificial intelligence will shape cybersecurity in 2026,” he said, citing a 2025 report from the World Economic Forum that found 1 in 3 CEOs consider cyber espionage and the theft of sensitive information or IP a top concern.
In November 2025, Anthropic reported that hackers believed to be sponsored by the Chinese government were able to access the AI chatbot Claude and have it carry out automated cyber attacks against approximately 30 global organizations, including:
Tech companies
Financial institutions
Chemical manufacturers
Government agencies
This marked the “first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign,” which relied on AI features such as intelligence, agency and tools that are currently much more advanced than they were a year ago. The attackers bypassed Claude’s safety features by tricking the chatbot into thinking it was performing defensive cybersecurity tasks for a legitimate company and breaking down suspicious requests into smaller tasks. The campaign executed about 80-90% of its operations autonomously at an attack speed that would have been impossible for human hackers to match.
Regulatory Response and New Frameworks
In 2025, a new Data Security Program (“DSP”) went into effect, issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The DSP “prohibits or restricts the provision of U.S. bulk ‘sensitive’ personal data and U.S government-related data to ‘countries of concern.’” The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) expects to finalize new AI cybersecurity guidelines in 2026. The preliminary draft, titled Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Artificial Intelligence, discusses how businesses can safely integrate AI into their workflows.
“As AI becomes more sophisticated by the day, companies should be aware of the third-party risks this technology can pose,” said Broidy. “Keeping up with new privacy and cybersecurity laws—intended to protect valuable data and individual privacy—is imperative.”
The Evolution of the Threat Landscape
Intrusions centered around social engineering and identity abuse are skyrocketing. Generative AI can create personalized, relevant phishing emails that become increasingly difficult for everyday internet users to distinguish between and flag. These AI cybersecurity threats manifest through:
Multifactor authentication bypass attempts
Employee-facing help desk impersonation
Sophisticated user consent manipulation
Attackers then trick LLMs into leaking internal data through prompt injection attacks, which the OWASP Top 10 2025 for LLM Applications ranks as the #1 critical vulnerability. These attacks appear in over 73% of production AI deployments assessed during security audits.
“With great innovation comes great risk,” said Broidy. “As AI advances by the day, leading to more opportunities for nefarious actors, finding impactful solutions to malicious AI use is paramount. Organizations cannot afford to treat AI security as an afterthought. It must be embedded into every layer of their cybersecurity strategy.”
Building AI Resilience
Cybersecurity has become a C-suite priority that dictates business success. Traditional defenses are no longer adequate in the face of machine-speed attacks and autonomous AI agents. Organizations must implement multi-layered defenses, continuously monitor for new attack vectors, and maintain realistic expectations about the current state of AI security.
“The organizations that thrive in 2026 will be those that effectively leverage the power of AI agents while proactively managing the associated risks,” said Broidy. “Businesses must place identity at the center of their security strategies to build a resilient foundation that allows them to innovate with confidence.”
Deepfakes dominate headlines, but election security threats increasingly reflect something bigger: the fusion of cyber operations with influence campaigns.
Since the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, lawmakers and government agencies alike have publicly warned that foreign actors have manufactured election-related videos intended to undermine trust in U.S. elections and stoke division – an approach that thrives on speed, amplification, and confusion.
That reality shifts the question from “is this video real?” to “how did this narrative get operationalized?” Three pressure points decide outcomes: account integrity, content provenance, and the speed of official response.
“People fixate on the deepfake,” said Elliott Broidy, chairman and CEO of Broidy Capital Holdings. Broidy, whose firm is increasingly focused on technology businesses in defense intelligence, homeland security, public safety, and law enforcement, including AI, argues that the real threat goes deeper. “But the deepfake is just the payload. The real attack is the trust pipeline. Compromise, impersonate, publish, amplify, and then dare institutions to catch up.”
Seen this way, elections face a trust supply chain attack. Adversaries target the systems that make information believable, including identity, distribution channels, and verification, rather than relying on a single convincing fake.
When an official or campaign account is hijacked, a false “polling place closed” post to social media does not need a high-fidelity deepfake to cause harm. It just needs the credibility of a trusted handle. Once a seemingly authoritative source shares it, even sloppy media can spark viral confusion.
Then the mechanics of spread take over. A screenshot outlives a takedown. Minor re-edits can help the same narrative slip past automated matching. Change the caption, crop the video, swap the voiceover, translate it, or re-upload with slight tweaks.
“If an official account gets popped, it doesn’t matter how good your detection tools are,” Broidy said. “You’ve handed the adversary your credibility. And credibility is the one thing you can’t rate-limit.”
That is why the defensive hierarchy is straightforward. Start with identity. Make provenance visible. Treat detection as the backstop. Upstream controls can outperform downstream moderation, but even strong account security does not solve the next problem, validating media quickly when the public is primed to distrust what it sees.
As generative tools improve, purely technical deepfake detection risks becoming an arms race. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has described ongoing work evaluating analytic systems against AI-generated deepfakes and the broader challenges of robustness, generalization, and content laundering.
If detection is about spotting deception, provenance is about making authenticity legible fast. One prominent example is the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, which maintains an open technical standard intended to establish the origin and edit history of digital content through cryptographically signed Content Credentials.
But the last mile is fragile. A video that is downloaded, screen-recorded, or reposted across platforms may lose the metadata that shows where it came from. That can weaken provenance at the exact moment decisions get made.
“Provenance can’t be a niche feature buried in a menu,” Broidy said. “If platforms aren’t preserving authenticity signals end-to-end and surfacing them in the moment, then the public is still flying blind.”
Absent visibility, provenance cannot influence behavior during a crisis, especially for the people who most need it in the first hour. That includes reporters, election officials, campaigns, and community leaders deciding whether to amplify it, deny it, or correct it. People do not share what they have verified. They share what feels urgent and credible.
That is why rapid public communication remains a critical defensive line. In response, federal agencies have issued joint statements attributing fabricated election-related media to foreign influence actors and warning about continued efforts to undermine trust.
“In these incidents, speed beats elegance,” Broidy said. “You need a playbook. Lock the accounts, verify the source, and communicate fast in plain English. If you wait for perfect attribution, the narrative is already baked.”
The most common institutional failure is waiting to respond until everything is confirmed, creating an information vacuum that adversaries fill. The first hour is about stabilizing reality, not winning a debate. The longer uncertainty lingers, the more a single piece of manipulated media becomes evidence of a broader claim, that nothing is knowable.
The broader implication is that election interference has become a trust supply chain attack. Compromise the account, distort the content, amplify the message, and delay the response. The operation can succeed even if the falsehood is later exposed.
Preparing for future election cycles will require more than deepfake detectors. It will require stronger authentication, platform-resilient provenance, and rapid public communication systems that can compete with the time-to-viral clock.
A practical baseline can start small and scale:
Use phishing-resistant multifactor authentication for all campaign and election-office social and ad accounts
Limit admin access and monitor login alerts
Publish originals in one canonical place, retain creation files, and apply Content Credentials where supported
Maintain a public rumor-control page and a rapid statement protocol with pre-drafted templates
In the AI era, Elliott Broidy and other security leaders emphasize that election resilience will be measured less by perfect detection than by durable identity, visible authenticity, and rapid truth-telling.
