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President Trump sat down for a working CEO lunch at the G7 in Evian with the industry’s top bosses, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis — a rare summit of minds that should be tasked with protecting American interests first. The meeting, convened to discuss the safe and rapid deployment of artificial intelligence, put the White House in direct conversation with the companies shaping the future of work and national security.
This was not a tea party for elites; it was a chance for the people’s president to hold powerful tech firms to account on the global stage while reminding allies who supplies the engines of modern prosperity. The lunch’s aim—framed around ensuring safe and effective AI deployment—speaks to the high stakes of competition, security, and economic leverage in the years ahead.
Americans should applaud a president who doesn’t bow to Silicon Valley when national security is on the line. Earlier this year, the administration ordered federal agencies to cease using certain Anthropic technologies amid an escalating row over how and whether those models can be used by the military, a firm reminder that sovereignty and safety come before corporate convenience.
When the government pushed back, Anthropic moved to disable access to its most advanced models after being hit with export and usage restrictions — a blunt demonstration that unchecked tech giants cannot be trusted to self-regulate in matters that touch on our security. That action vindicated the decision to draw bright lines: no nation can permit networks of private code to dictate the terms of national defense or commerce.
Meanwhile, European leaders are fretting about American dominance and pushing “tech sovereignty” packages, but the real question is whether our leaders will use American strength to protect American workers and allies rather than outsource our future to bureaucrats in Brussels. The G7 setting makes clear that competition, not capitulation, should define Western policy toward AI — and that the U.S. must lead with both muscle and principle.
This lunch was a moment for firmness: demand transparency, insist on access for defense and critical infrastructure, and make it clear that companies that refuse to cooperate with national security will lose privileged standing. Hardworking Americans want innovation, but not at the cost of their safety or jobs; Washington should strike the right balance by backing homegrown innovation while enforcing rules that protect citizens.
Patriots should watch closely as this administration uses leverage at summits and on the ground to ensure America wins the AI race. The era of tech CEOs acting as untouchable global governors is over — and that’s a victory for the American people, whose security and prosperity must always come first.
