Washington DC/IBNS, Sept. 30 -- US President Donald Trump on Tuesday jokingly called Google CEO Sundar Pichai a "monster" while hosting leading artificial intelligence (AI) executives at the White House.

The exchange came after a White House luncheon attended by several of the world's leading technology and AI executives.

Trump hosted a group of prominent technology executives, including Google's Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, among others.

The meeting focused on AI safety, industry self-regulation, the expansion of data centres and the broader development of advanced AI systems.

Following the meeting, Trump...