{"slug": "west-plays-nice-on-ai-in-bid-to-shut-out-china", "title": "West plays nice on AI in bid to shut out China", "summary": "Western leaders and top AI CEOs agreed at a G7 meeting in France to collaborate on regulating advanced AI models to counter China's influence, despite recent U.S. restrictions on Anthropic's models causing tensions among allies.", "body_md": "EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — The West should come together to rein in the most capable artificial intelligence models to keep China at bay, leaders and top AI CEOs agreed in talks on Wednesday.\n\nAs leaders of the seven richest countries spent more than two hours around a table with 11 of the richest men in the world, there was little to show that Washington had just [suspended access to Anthropic’s latest models](https://www.politico.eu/article/anthropic-suspends-access-to-latest-ai-models-following-us-order/), creating tensions between the U.S. and its allies, while throwing America’s own AI policies into a tailspin.\n\nThe leaders and top AI executives displayed a spirit of collaboration, according to interviews and readouts from five people in attendance at the G7 meeting — uniting around a common enemy in China.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/west-plays-nice-on-ai-in-bid-to-shut-out-china", "canonical_source": "https://www.politico.eu/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-anthropic-china-g7/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication", "published_at": "2026-06-17 18:50:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-17 19:24:50.844654+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["G7", "Anthropic", "China", "United States", "France"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/west-plays-nice-on-ai-in-bid-to-shut-out-china", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/west-plays-nice-on-ai-in-bid-to-shut-out-china.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/west-plays-nice-on-ai-in-bid-to-shut-out-china.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/west-plays-nice-on-ai-in-bid-to-shut-out-china.jsonld"}}