Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., will speak at the White House Task Force’s AI Education conference at the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday, September 4th, 2025. Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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During a White House dinner with tech executives, President Donald Trump congratulated Google CEO Sundar Pichai and co-founder Sergey Brin alphabet Tuesday’s favorable antitrust law.
“You had a really good day yesterday,” Trump said, calling for Pichai for dinner Thursday evening. “We had a really good day yesterday. Would you like to talk about yesterday’s big day?”
This week’s Alphabet added $200 billion to its market capitalization after avoiding the breakup of a groundbreaking antitrust case brought to the US Department of Justice in 2020. Last year, Google was found to have an illegal monopoly in the core markets of internet search. Deciding penalties this week, US District Judge Amit Metah has opposed the most serious consequences proposed by the DOJ and has jumped stocks in the search company.
“I’m glad it’s over,” Pichai replied to Trump, causing a laughing eruption from other table guests.
“It’s a long process,” Pichai said. “We are grateful for the constructive dialogue in your administration and we were able to bring it to some sort of solution.”
“Yes,” replied Trump.
“Make sure the US is on the forefront as the AI moment is one of the most transformative moments that we have seen or seen in our lifetime. And I think your administration has invested a lot.” “I think the AI action plan is already a great start under your leadership. We look forward to working with you. And we’re grateful for your leadership.”
The plan Pichai mentioned is the administration’s “Victory to the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” which began in July. It argues that it identifies 90 federal policy actions across three pillars: accelerated innovation, building artificial intelligence infrastructure in international diplomacy and security, and leadership. Part of that plan includes an executive order in July that AI models should not incorporate “Woke AI” or “doctrines of ideological such as DEI.”
Google has also discussed with Trump’s lawyers about the ongoing lawsuit filed by the president more than four years ago, and has accused the online video platform YouTube of illegal censorship. The lawsuit stemmed from the suspension of Trump’s accounts on social media sites following the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Earlier on Thursday, Pichai took part in the White House’s “AI Education Task Force” event hosted by First Lady Melania Trump.
Trump paused Pichai’s response on Thursday evening, saying, “Biden was the one who indicted the case, you know that.” Trump said, referring to the search monopoly case.
The search case was brought by DOJ while Trump was in office during his first term. Pichai didn’t fix him.
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