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Google rebounds with Gemini 3.8 Flash and antitrust victory

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and secures an antitrust win to offset recent stock losses.

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A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Justice Department's push to force Google to sell its ad exchange, opting for behavioral remedies instead of a structural breakup. [1] Alphabet's Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks, alongside a new cybersecurity model aimed at trusted government and enterprise customers on Wednesday. [2] Salesforce's stock rose 22.6% on 2025-08-27, its largest one-day gain since 2020, after the company reported double-digit revenue growth for its fiscal second quarter (May-July 2025) and announced a partnership with AI company Anthropic to integrate its Claude model into Salesforce systems as 'ClaudeForce'. [3] Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel told CNBC that he sees Alphabet as a winner in AI, noting that the company's portfolio companies use its technology to deliver incremental benefits. [4] Gemini 3.8 Flash costs 75 cents per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, maintaining the same introductory price as the previous Flash model despite improvements. [5] In February 2025, fears that AI agents would reduce human use of subscription software caused a one-day loss of $285 billion (about 428 trillion won) in market capitalization of major SaaS companies including Salesforce and Adobe. [6] Software companies are changing pricing models: Salesforce is expanding usage-based pricing where it charges based on how much work AI performs; Microsoft adds AI usage fees to its per-user fees; Adobe charges credits for generating images with its generative AI Firefly in Photoshop. [7] The article reports that the view that AI will operate on top of existing software rather than replace it is gaining strength, because AI needs access to existing enterprise systems such as Salesforce's CRM and Microsoft's productivity software to function. [8]
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  1. A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Justice Department's push to force Google to sell its ad exchange, opting for behavioral remedies instead of a structural breakup. · CNBCUnited States
  2. Alphabet's Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks, alongside a new cybersecurity model aimed at trusted government and enterprise customers on Wednesday. · CNBCUnited States
  3. Salesforce's stock rose 22.6% on 2025-08-27, its largest one-day gain since 2020, after the company reported double-digit revenue growth for its fiscal second quarter (May-July 2025) and announced a partnership with AI company Anthropic to integrate its Claude model into Salesforce systems as 'ClaudeForce'. · 동아일보
  4. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel told CNBC that he sees Alphabet as a winner in AI, noting that the company's portfolio companies use its technology to deliver incremental benefits. · CNBCUnited States
  5. Gemini 3.8 Flash costs 75 cents per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, maintaining the same introductory price as the previous Flash model despite improvements. · CNBCUnited States
  6. In February 2025, fears that AI agents would reduce human use of subscription software caused a one-day loss of $285 billion (about 428 trillion won) in market capitalization of major SaaS companies including Salesforce and Adobe. · 동아일보
  7. Software companies are changing pricing models: Salesforce is expanding usage-based pricing where it charges based on how much work AI performs; Microsoft adds AI usage fees to its per-user fees; Adobe charges credits for generating images with its generative AI Firefly in Photoshop. · 동아일보
  8. The article reports that the view that AI will operate on top of existing software rather than replace it is gaining strength, because AI needs access to existing enterprise systems such as Salesforce's CRM and Microsoft's productivity software to function. · 동아일보
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