Google CEO Sundar Pichai heaped praise on President Trump during a White House dinner on Thursday night – just two days after the Big Tech giant avoided a breakup and other major penalties in a landmark antitrust case involving its monopoly over online search.

Pichai and Google co-founder Sergey Brin were among tech CEO that included Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and OpenAI’s Sam Altman at the high-profile event, which featured discussions about US investments and artificial intelligence.

At one point, Trump turned to Pichai and said that Google “had a very good day yesterday” — referring to the company’s stock soaring nearly 10% a day aftter US District Judge Amit Mehta’s slap on the wrist, which was widely panned by anti-monopoly critics. 3

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