A US federal judge rules that Google does not have to sell off its ad exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

A federal judge ruled that Google must integrate its ad tech tools with rival platforms rather than divesting its advertising exchange. Simultaneously, Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 to enhance coding and agentic performance, while Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, which is priced at $0.75 per million input tokens through December 31.