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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.

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