G7 Leaders, Four AI CEOs Split Over Frontier Model Access

On June 17, 2026, on the final day of the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, G7 leaders and the CEOs of leading AI companies held a working lunch on AI and diverged over how access to frontier models should be governed. U.S. President Donald Trump sat at the center, with OpenAI's Sam Altman on his right, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on his left, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei across the table. Mistral AI's Arthur Mensch and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick also attended. The gathering