Top artificial intelligence executives gathered at this year's G7 summit to discuss AI policy directly with world leaders, according to The New York Times.
Among them were OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, who reportedly joined President Trump at the summit alongside other AI chiefs, according to Yahoo Finance and Stocktwits.
The meetings unfolded against a backdrop of tension over who controls the technology. U.S. News & World Report reports that European officials are seeking checks on American dominance of the AI industry. An Associated Press dispatch (carried by WSLS) likewise framed the summit as focused on the "contentious future of AI and US dominance of the industry."
That geopolitical framing carried through to the summit's close. El Mundo America reports that the "geopolitics" of artificial intelligence marked the end of the G-7 gathering, describing AI as "already an important issue of national sovereignty."
The stakes were put starkly by Cohere's CEO, who told Fortune that G7 leaders face a choice between "sovereign AI or digital serfdom" — language that captures European anxieties about depending on American technology providers.
The presence of company founders at a leaders' summit underscores how closely the AI industry and government policy have become intertwined. With a handful of US firms dominating the field, other nations are weighing how much of their digital future to entrust to foreign companies.
Why it matters: the summit signals that AI is no longer just a business story but a question of national sovereignty, shaping how governments worldwide may regulate and compete in the technology.