AI leaders meet at G7 as Europe pushes tech sovereignty

Top AI executives are gathering in France for the final day of the G7 summit, where governments are turning from war-focused discussions to the deployment and governance of AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are due to join a working lunch on ensuring safe, rapid and effective adoption of the technology.

The meeting comes amid growing European concern over reliance on American AI companies and infrastructure. The European Commission has unveiled a tech sovereignty package aimed at strengthening homegrown AI, while the Vatican has called for robust regulation. Anxiety intensified after Anthropic took down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to comply with a Trump administration order citing an unspecified national security concern, cutting off access for non-Americans and forcing a wider customer suspension.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the episode underscored the need to “build out and diversify,” while French President Emmanuel Macron has long promoted digital sovereignty. Smaller AI labs from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.K. are also attending as countries look for ways to secure access to models, data and local computing capacity.