@heyshrutimishra: Dario asked governments to have an AI kill-switch. Then they used it on him. Three days after launching their most capa…

Dario asked governments to have an AI kill-switch. Then they used it on him. Three days after launching their most capable model, the US government sent Anthropic a letter at 5:21pm on a Friday. The order: pull it for every foreign national on earth, including their own non-citizen employees, effective immediately. Anthropic couldn't verify nationality in real time, so they shut it off for everyone. Today, five days after the shutdown, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis sat down for a working lunch with G7 leaders in Evian, France. The session title: ensuring the safe and rapid deployment of AI globally. Here is what is actually happening at that table. Altman is not there to negotiate. His pitch to every European leader in the room is that Western frontier AI is the safe alternative to Chinese open-source models. Amodei is there on biosecurity. On June 4, he co-signed a joint letter to Congress alongside Altman and Hassabis asking for mandatory synthetic-DNA screening across the industry. G7 is where you turn a domestic policy letter into a multilateral commitment that becomes the template for legislation in every member country. That is a significant prize, and it has nothing to do with the shutdown. The communiqué being drafted will be voluntary. The US blocked binding agreements before the summit began. France gets sovereignty language. The US keeps its industrial advantage intact. Everyone shakes hands. Meanwhile French PM Lecornu told Reuters today: "We cannot rely on tools developed by foreign powers. France must have its own tools." Every country watching this summit is drawing the same conclusion: you don't control AI if you don't control the infrastructure it runs on.