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https://www.axios.com/2026/06/20/ai-tech-moguls-g7
New global order: AI CEOs as heads of nation-states
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| Edited from Axios article: |
| It was a historic scene that captures a once-unimaginable geopolitical ordering. The world’s most powerful heads of state gathered in the French Alps this week for the annual G7 summit, with the CEOs of America’s dominant AI companies seated and treated like heads of nation-states themselves. This is the future many leaders and AI CEOs envision — heads of state and the masters of tech in constant discussion, and sometimes conflict, over who controls AI, its rules, and its application to governing and world security. AI CEOs sat around the table with leaders of the world’s democracies, treated as peers. The companies, creating the world’s future economy and security infrastructure, are now the equivalent of nation states. |
Court Painter was only able to capture in masterful portraits, a few of the Masters of Tech AI CEO’s physiognomies as his supply of pigment, politeness and patience ran out.
You dear viewer have to figure out who is who! (The Court Painter is on the right)
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Source : AI Mode Google Search
The AI CEOs and top tech executives who attended the 2026 G7 Summit working lunch in Évian-les-Bains, France on June 17, 2026, include: [1, 2, 3]
North American AI Leaders [1]
- Sam Altman – CEO of OpenAI
- Dario Amodei – CEO and Co-Founder of Anthropic
- Demis Hassabis – CEO of Google DeepMind
- Aidan Gomez – CEO of Canada-based Cohere
- Marc Benioff – Chair and CEO of Salesforce
- Alexandr Wang – Leader of AI operations at Meta (acting as Chief AI Officer) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
European AI Leaders
- Arthur Mensch – Founder and CEO of France’s Mistral AI
- Robin Rombach – Co-Founder of Germany’s Black Forest Labs
- Victor Riparbelli – CEO of the UK-based Synthesia
- Uljan Sharka – CEO of Italy’s Domyn [1, 2, 3, 4]
Asian AI Leaders
- Ren Ito – Representative from Japan’s Sakana AI
- Pratyush Kumar / Vivek Raghava
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Court Painter painted two suns for no particular reason.