Sundar Pichai, main enforcement serviceman of Alphabet Inc., speaks during a gathering of the White House Task Force connected AI Education successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, DC, US, connected Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. The White House has been actively promoting artificial quality and home manufacturing, with caller announcements including a program to trim regularisation of artificial quality and enactment for starring AI chipmakers. Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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At a White House meal with tech executives, President Donald Trump congratulated Google CEO Sundar Pichai and co-founder Sergey Brin pursuing Alphabet's favorable antitrust ruling connected Tuesday.
"Well you had a precise bully time yesterday," Trump said, calling connected Pichai astatine the Thursday evening dinner. "Google had a precise bully time yesterday. Do you privation to speech astir that large time you had yesterday?"
Alphabet this week added $230 cardinal to its marketplace headdress aft avoiding a breakup successful a landmark antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice successful 2020. Google was recovered to clasp an amerciable monopoly successful its halfway marketplace of net hunt past year. Deciding connected the penalties this week, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled against the astir terrible consequences projected by the DOJ, causing shares of the hunt institution to jump.
"I'm gladsome it's over," Pichai responded to Trump, causing an eruption of laughter from the different array guests.
"It's a agelong process," Pichai said. "Appreciate that your medication had a constructive dialogue, and we were capable to get it to immoderate resolution."
"Right," Trump replied.
"The AI infinitesimal is 1 of the astir transformative moments immoderate of america person ever seen oregon volition spot successful our lifetimes, truthful making definite the U.S. is astatine the forefront — and I deliberation your medication is investing a lot," Pichai said. "Already the AI enactment program nether your enactment I deliberation is simply a large start, and we look guardant to moving together. And acknowledgment for your leadership."
The program Pichai referred to is the administration's "Winning the AI Race: America's AI Action Plan," launched successful July, which claims to place 90 national argumentation actions crossed 3 pillars: the acceleration of innovation, gathering of artificial quality infrastructure and enactment successful planetary diplomacy and security. Part of that program includes a July enforcement order that says AI models should not incorporated "Woke AI" oregon "ideological dogmas specified arsenic DEI," meaning diversity, equity and inclusion.
Google is besides successful discussions with Trump's lawyers for an ongoing lawsuit that the president filed much than 4 years ago, accusing the online video level YouTube of unlawful censorship. The suit stemmed from the suspension of Trump's accounts connected societal media sites aft the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot.
Earlier Thursday, Pichai attended the White House "AI Education Taskforce" lawsuit hosted by First Lady Melania Trump.
Trump interrupted Pichai's Thursday evening effect to accidental "Biden was the 1 who prosecuted that lawsuit, you cognize that right?" Trump said, referring to the hunt monopoly case.
The hunt lawsuit was brought by the DOJ portion Trump was successful bureau during his archetypal term. Pichai did not close him.
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