bing news | Macron invites Sam Altman to G7 as France courts AI giants

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France is hosting the 2026 G7 summit (June 15‑17), where artificial‑intelligence will dominate the agenda, and President Emmanuel Macron has personally invited OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to join the leaders‑level discussions. According to OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane, Altman’s primary focus will be youth safety, building on a joint G7 framework adopted in May to protect children online, while also addressing “frontier” AI risks in cyber‑security and biological domains as advanced models such as Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT‑5.5 Cyber raise new alarms. Macron has also courted SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, who is set to commit €45 billion over five years to French AI infrastructure, and the Choose France summit has secured multibillion‑euro pledges—including a €7.5 billion AI campus from UAE fund MGX and Bpifrance and a €2 billion investment from Salesforce. In parallel, OpenAI’s 2025 “OpenAI for Countries” programme, now led by former UK chancellor George Osborne, offers governments data‑centre partnerships and large‑scale ChatGPT deployment.

Read more: https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1404672-macron-invites-sam-altman-to-g7-as-france-courts-ai-giants

#Macron #SamAltman #OpenAI #G7 #SoftBank #ChrisLehane #MasayoshiSon #GeorgeOsborne

This is looking like a George Osborne fuck up (did you know he's running the British Museum now, gets around, doesn't he?)

Those people who keep falling upwards, yeah?

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/may/28/british-museum-postpones-jewish-culture-month-lecture-over-protest-fears

#BritishMuesum #GeorgeOsborne #BritishJews #KemiBadenoch

New Statesman | Morgan McSweeney can’t believe the Prince of Darkness betrayed him by Will Dunn

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Morgan McSweeney, a former No 10 chief of staff, testified before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, revealing that he and Prime Minister Keir Starmer were misled about Peter Mandelson’s suitability as Britain’s ambassador to the United States. Despite a due‑diligence file highlighting Mandelson’s scandal‑ridden past—including links to Jeffrey Epstein and a history of controversial behaviour—the government appointed him, hoping his name recognition and former EU trade commissioner role would secure a trade deal. McSweeney described feeling “like a knife through my soul” when the revelations emerged, insisting he had never been swayed by Mandelson and that the appointment was a gross lapse in judgment that undermined public trust in the Labour administration.

Read more: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/the-sketch/2026/04/morgan-mcsweeney-cant-believe-the-prince-of-darkness-betrayed-him

#MorganMcSweeney #KeirStarmer #PeterMandelson #JeffreyEpstein #ForeignAffairs #GeorgeOsborne