Trump calls Google's boss a "monster"

US President Donald Trump is at it again and if he can't bring world peace, well, he can at least make you laugh.

He called Google's CEO Sundar Pichai a "monster", but that's not because the new Pixel 11 series arrived with HiLight instead of substantial hardware upgrades.

No, Trump meant to say that in a good way and he said it to Pichai's face at an AI summit at the White House.

"Nobody knows him"

"Sundar, you wanna say something?", Trump starts. Apparently—yes, since Pichai starts with the obligatory" First of all, thanks…", but then, in his usual style, Trump cuts him off and declares, "You have no idea who these people are. These are the biggest people in the world". Besides Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei were also at the White House meeting.

Trump then continued talking about Sundar and called him a "monster" and said that "nobody knows him". Sure, that's the first time I've ever heard of the Google CEO. I wonder if Trump would dare to present, say, Johnny Depp to the public next time.

Here is the funny moment itself:

What were they doing there?

Besides giggling in front of the cameras, Trump and the tech bosses actually discussed how to advance AI without too many risks for the public.

Trump said that major technology companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google and Nvidia) had agreed to voluntary AI safety standards following the White House meeting. The agreement calls for companies to use independent auditors to check whether their AI systems behave as intended and to strengthen safeguards against AI tools accessing or hacking technical systems without authorization.

People start noticing

The move comes amid growing concern over autonomous AI agents, including recent incidents in which systems from OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly carried out unauthorized actions against other companies' systems (in short: hacking).

At the same time, Trump reaffirmed his support for rapidly expanding data centers, despite opposition from some communities worried about rising electricity demand, utility costs and other local effects.

During the unusually public White House appearance, Trump compared the agreement to a kind of constitution for the AI industry, while Meta's Mark Zuckerberg said companies would establish stronger internal controls. Trump also said he was considering a 10-member board to oversee AI safety and planned to appoint a new White House official responsible for AI policy. I bet five bucks a member of the Trump family will be on that board.