Acer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, set to launch in December (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

A U.S. federal judge ruled that Google need not sell its ad exchange but must make its ad-tech tools compatible with rivals’ systems. Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, priced at $0.75 per 1 M input and $3.75 per 1 M output tokens, claiming it outperforms Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on certain benchmarks. Uber announced a 10% workforce reduction, cutting about 3,300 jobs to focus spending on ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis.