Conditional check for "i == (2^8)" fails when i is 512?

Here is a small Program to print powers of 2 till 8. But it is not quitting after 8. Please explain the reason.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(void)
{
        unsigned int i=1;
        while(1) {
                i = i<<1;
                printf("i = %d\n",i);
                if(i==(2^8))
                        break;
                sleep(1);
        }
        printf("Exited While loop.. \n");
        return 0;
}

The Loop is not Exiting when i = 2^8. My output is something like this:

i = 2
i = 4
i = 8
i = 16
i = 32
i = 64
i = 128
i = 256
i = 512 (Should have Exited here. But the program is continuing. Why?)
i = 1024
i = 2048
i = 4096....

EDIT :

Thanks for answering that ^ is an XOR operator. But now the below code is behaving strange. Please Explain.

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
        if((2)^8 == 1<<8) {
                printf("True.. \n");
        } else {
                printf("False..!!");
        }
        return 0;
}

The above function program prints true.