Google's confidential and long-context TPUs; DeepSeek Harness scales
Google rounds out its eighth-generation TPUs with systems for confidential agent workloads and million-token contexts, plus open TPU tooling. DeepSeek's open agent harness reports consumer-app scale and a coming plugin store.
- GoogleNewsInfraGoogle adds TPU 8tx for confidential inference and TPU 8i Max for long contextGoogle now has four eighth-gen TPU systems: 8tx keeps data and weights encrypted in use for regulated agent workloads, and 8i Max doubles 8i's compute and HBM bandwidth. It also open-sourced TPU Sync and an agent suite for Claude Code and Cursor.
- DeepSeek HarnessNewsAgentsDeepSeek Harness reports 1.54M daily users and plans a plugin marketplaceUnder three months after launch, DeepSeek's open-source agent app says it serves 1.54M daily API users and 92T tokens a day, with 35,000 community plugins. The figures are self-reported; a plugin store and author support program are next.