World leaders want American AI. They just don't want America to be able to turn it off.

At the G7 summit, French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised pointed concerns about the structural vulnerability of depending on American AI infrastructure—concerns that became concrete when the U.S. government ordered restrictions on Anthropic's most advanced model. The episode has sharpened a tension that has been building quietly: sovereign nations increasingly rely on tools whose continued availability rests entirely on decisions made in Washington. This is less a story about any single company than about how digital dependency now shapes geopolitical leverage in ways that few governments were prepared to navigate.