EU Publishes July 2026 Cybersecurity and AI Action Plan Ahead of August AI Act Deadline

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The European Commission released a coordinated Cybersecurity and AI action plan, launching a call to build EU model-evaluation capacity (operational by 2027) and partnering with ENISA on a secure testing platform for critical sectors like energy, health, and finance. It lands just before the AI Act's core provisions and transparency rules take effect August 2, 2026, even as negotiators agreed to defer high-risk compliance obligations to December 2, 2027. Builders shipping into the EU should track both the August go-live and the deferral.