Electron Ion Collider project and control system updates for 2025

As the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) completes its final physics run in 2025, design activities for the future Electron Ion Collider (EIC) that will probe the building blocks of nuclear physics for decades to come have made critical advances. Recent improvements including a new Electron Injector System and updated Low Energy Cooler for electron-based cooling of hadron beams will be described. Advancements in the planning and demonstration activities for accelerator controls elements such as the Common Platform front-end computer designs and related infrastructure, EPICS-based software infrastructure, bridging tools to controls for legacy systems required to support hadron injector systems, and networking and computing infrastructure designs will be highlighted. Our analysis of potential scope of AI/ML integration with controls for the EIC accelerator and detector systems will be introduced.