Groundwork

• The EU has introduced an Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI to establish a framework for integrating AI-powered approaches into IT security. • The plan emphasizes that organizations must first ensure their basic security foundations are robust before implementing these advanced AI tools. • Key challenges include significant financial risks associated with Large Language Models (LLMs) that lack transparency or audit trails for their decision-making processes.

Democrats and advocates sound alarm at Trump rehashing false claims about 2020 election in his primetime addressDemocrats and voting rights groups say Donald Trump’s primetime speech making unverified claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election are the clearest sign yet that the president is laying the groundwork to tamper with the results of November’s midterms.The upcoming elections to decide the balance of power in Congress and many state legislatures will be a major test of Trump’s appeal to voters two years after he resoundingly beat the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris to return to the White House. With polls showing that the president is disliked by majorities of voters and his Republican allies are at risk of losing their control of the House of Representatives, the president’s Thursday evening speech rehashing allegations about the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden sparked fears he was already looking for ways to ensure November’s results are in his favor. Continue reading...

• President Donald J. Trump and his allies are reportedly intensifying a campaign to erode safeguards intended to keep U.S. elections free, fair, and secure. • The efforts are described as a pattern of undermining the rule of law, destabilizing election administration, and weakening institutional protections. • These actions are occurring as the administration prepares for the upcoming 2026 midterm elections.