French President Emmanuel Macron urged G7 democracies to coordinate AI regulation for advanced systems, warning against purely national responses, during a high-level Group of Seven meeting in France. The talks included senior AI executives and focused on safety and oversight. The push came as governments weighed how to manage powerful "frontier" AI systems. The AI debate was coloured by a US move affecting Anthropic’s latest models; the Trump administration issued a directive last week barring foreign nationals from using them, and Anthropic removed its newest systems, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, on Friday to comply. Attendees included OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang. Macron criticised the directive as a nationalist response and urged the US not to keep cutting-edge AI for itself. Altman echoed calls for an international forum to set AI safety guardrails, saying "we need an international forum for discussion that establishes globally accepted standards for testing." Aidan Gomez, CEO of Canada’s Cohere AI, said participants discussed joint approaches to AI governance, noting "the consensus was we need something."