The CEOs of the two most powerful AI companies on Earth sat down for lunch with the leaders of the world’s seven largest economies on June 17. The menu wasn’t the interesting part.
Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic attended a working lunch at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, alongside executives from Google DeepMind and Mistral.
What happened, and why the timing matters
Around June 12-13, the US government issued directives restricting foreign access to Anthropic’s flagship models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Anthropic responded on June 13 by suspending global access entirely, a blunt move that effectively cut off allied nations from tools they had been using.
Four days later, the people who built those tools were sitting across the table from the people whose countries just lost access to them.
