French President Emmanuel Macron greeted President Donald Trump during the official arrivals ceremony for the G7 summit in Evian‑les‑Bains on Monday, June 15, 2026, according to gdelt. At a high‑level meeting that included top AI executives, Macron urged the world’s wealthy democracies to cooperate on regulating advanced artificial‑intelligence systems, gdelt reported.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for an international forum to draw up AI guardrails at the summit, gdelt said, adding that he said the task of AI safety should not be left to tech companies. The Trump administration issued a directive the previous week preventing foreign use of Anthropic’s newest and most powerful AI models, gdelt reported.

During a White House visit, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke about Western nationalism in her conversation with President Trump, theatlantic.com reported. Meloni also eased a potentially awkward moment concerning Ukraine, invited President Trump to visit Rome, and Trump promised to visit Rome soon, theatlantic.com added.

Before a reportedly private lunch in the Cabinet Room, journalists were escorted in for seven minutes of questions, catching Meloni off guard, theatlantic.com reported. Footage showed Meloni positioned with her back to the cameras, her silky blond strands visible atop her head, and she was forced either to ignore the media to address Trump directly or to twist herself to the left, away from the president, to try to speak, theatlantic.com noted.