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title: "Google's confidential and long-context TPUs; DeepSeek Harness scales"
date: 2026-11-09
updated: 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://arun477.github.io/feed/2026-11-09/
author: Arun Arumugam
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# 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.


- [Google adds TPU 8tx for confidential inference and TPU 8i Max for long context](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/tpu-8i-max-and-8tx/) (Google, news, Infra, 13:34 UTC): Google 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 Harness reports 1.54M daily users and plans a plugin marketplace](https://x.com/DeepSeekHarness/status/2119431663642153128) (DeepSeek Harness, news, Agents, 13:34 UTC): Under 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.