G7 leaders held a working lunch with top AI CEOs in France today, including Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Marc Benioff (Salesforce).
the meeting comes as tensions grow over the U.S. restricting foreign access to Anthropic’s most advanced models.
while the frontier lab CEOs were expected, Benioff’s presence stands out, he represents the enterprise side of AI adoption rather than model development.
it shows how quickly AI has moved from a tech topic to a geopolitical and economic one.
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G7 host France is pushing partners to agree a statement on critical minerals that could include measures to help the West reduce its reliance on China and shield investors from counter-measures and dumping, diplomats said