Published June 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
TechCrunch
Jun 18, 2026, 6:00 AM
World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.
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