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.
But the amount of market power gathered in the room on Thursday night was truly extraordinary. Dave Smith has a rundown of who was there below. 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. Fresh from having escaped lightly from the U.S. government’s antitrust suit against Alphabet, Pichai’s dinner performance may have helped convince Trump to go to bat for Google with the EU. (Not that Trump needed too much persuading.)
More on that, as well as all the other tech news–including Anthropic’s potentially precedent-setting settlement of an AI copyright case—below.
—Jeremy Kahn
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