French met with Dario Amodei and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, during a meeting with industry executives
The president of France, (Renaissance, center), articulates a model of cooperation between democratic countries that allows access to advanced artificial intelligence systems. The initiative responds to the decision by the US government, led by (Republican Party), foreigners to use the latest tools of the .
Macron discussed the topic with G7 leaders and executives from technology companies on Wednesday (June 17, 2026), in Évian-les-Bains, France. The meeting was attended by Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, and Sam Altman, from OpenAI, as well as representatives from Meta, Google DeepMind, Mistral AI and Salesforce.
According to journalists, the French government is considering creating a network of “trusted partners”. Countries, companies and institutions previously analyzed by security authorities would have access to the most advanced models, as long as they complied with common protection and use rules.
The proposal would give national cybersecurity and cyberdefense agencies the role of validating the implementation of the tools. Macron said he is working on creating a platform where democracies can define joint standards and share information about digital threats.
The United States government on Friday (June 12, 2026) ordered Anthropic to stop offering the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to foreigners, inside or outside the North American territory, without a license from the Department of Commerce.
The company suspended all users’ access to the 2 systems. Other Anthropic models continue to operate. The company said it considers the order to be related to the possibility of bypassing Fable 5’s security mechanisms.
Macron classified the North American measure as a response “strictly nationalist”. According to the Frenchman, governments need to prevent advanced tools from being used by authoritarian regimes, but the objective requires cooperation between countries.
The French president indicated that France will increase investments in its own AI industry if the attempt at international coordination fails, according to the newspaper The Washington Post. The restriction reinforced the debate in Europe about the dependence of companies and technological infrastructures on the United States.
Sam Altman advocated the creation of an international forum responsible for establishing testing standards and analyzing model risks. For the executive, decisions about technology security should not be exclusively the responsibility of the companies that develop the systems.
Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis, from Google DeepMind, also defended the participation of G7 countries in defining security standards.
Trump stated that negotiations with Anthropic to restore access to the models were “doing well”according to journalists and the agency . The US government, however, has not yet released details about the security risks used to justify the ban.
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