Axios

House Democrats are planning legislation to counteract the executive order President Trump signed Thursday re-designating Lake Ontario as "Lake America," Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Democrats are scrambling to contain the fallout from an escalating economic conflict between the Trump administration and the Canadian government.

President Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" on Thursday.

Why it matters: The president is following through on his threat over the lake after U.S.-Canada trade negotiations collapsed.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday that the organizations now only have months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks.

Why it matters: Hospitals, water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure will face a swarm of hacking threats as AI makes sophisticated cyber capabilities cheaper and more accessible to attackers, the group write in an open letter.