"If nothing else, it was the dinner that launched a thousand memes. (If you haven't checked out the deepfake parody someone created of Bill Gates' remarks at the dinner, it's hilarious, but NSFW, so I won't link to it here.) Coming to "kiss the ring" certainly seems to have paid off for at least one of the guests, Sundar Pichai."
"Good morning. It's Jeremy here, filling in for Andrew who, along with many of my Fortune colleagues, is kicking off Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Deer Valley, Utah today. Check out fortune.com for coverage of the mainstage sessions. Over the weekend, everyone was still talking about that White House dinner. Never has such an extraordinary collection of intellectual heft gathered in the White House since Thomas Jefferson dined-oh never mind."
"U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened the European Union with additional tariffs after the bloc fined Google €2.9 billion ($3.4 billion) for violating competition laws with its search ad practices and ordered it to change its business practices. Just hours after the EU announced the fine on Friday and a day after he met with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai at the White House, Trump took to Truth Social to call the decision "very unfair.""
A White House dinner convened an extraordinary concentration of market power from leading technology executives and prompted a flurry of memes and a deepfake parody of Bill Gates' remarks. Sundar Pichai attended following a light outcome from the U.S. government's antitrust suit against Alphabet, and his appearance may have influenced President Trump to defend Google with the European Union. The EU fined Google €2.9 billion for search-ad competition violations and ordered business-practice changes, prompting Trump to threaten additional tariffs. Anthropic reached a potentially precedent-setting settlement in an AI copyright case. Fortune Brainstorm Tech convened in Deer Valley, Utah.
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