2026-04-23

Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tpu-8t-and-tp... The culmination of a decade of development, TPU 8t and TPU 8i are custom-engineered to power the next generation of supercomputing with efficiency and scale. Google is launching its eighth-generation Tensor Processor Units, featuring two specialized chips: the TPU 8t for massive model training and the TPU 8i for high-speed inference. These chips are purpose-built to handle the complex, iterative demands of AI agents while delivering significant gains in power efficiency and performance. You can request more information now to prepare for their general availability later this year. Google’s new eighth generation TPUs, TPU 8t and 8i, power the next era of AI. The TPU 8t is a training powerhouse built to speed up complex model development. The TPU 8i specializes in low-latency inference to support fast, collaborative AI agents. Both chips use custom hardware to deliver better performance and energy efficiency than before. These new systems will be available later this year to help scale your AI workloads.

3.4M Solar Panels

Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More... In October, I reviewed the Ground-Mounted Solar Energy in the United States (GM-SEUS) dataset. This dataset attempted to outline the majority of solar farm arrays and panels across the US. Version 1 of this dataset contained 2.9M panels. On Monday, version 2 of this dataset was released and now contains more than 3.4M panels. In addition to the panels and arrays being refreshed, there is a new rooftop array dataset. In this post, I'll review v2 of the GM-SEUS dataset.

Treetops glowing during storms captured on film for first time

Penn State experts in meteorology and atmospheric science made their way down the nation’s eastern coast in June 2024 in search of corona discharges, a long-hypothesized atmospheric weather phenomenon where miniscule pulses of electricity dance at the tips of tree leaves, causing the canopy to glow in the ultraviolet (UV). They found them and captured the phenomenon on film for the first time. The positive, left, and negative corona discharges are shown on a spruce branch in a nearly pitch-black environment of a meteorology and atmospheric sciences lab at Penn State. Credit: William Brune / Penn State . Creative Commons UNIVERSITY PARK — In a converted 2013 Toyota Sienna affixed with a hand-built telescopic weather device protruding from the roof, Penn State experts in meteorology and atmospheric science made their way down the nation’s eastern coast in June 2024 in search of Florida’s famed near-daily summer thunderstorms. They were hoping to catch corona discharges, a long-hypothesized atmospheric weather phenomenon where miniscule pulses of electricity dance at the tips of tree leaves, causing the canopy to glow in the ultraviolet (UV). For more than 70 years, scientists have suspected treetops might emit these corona electrical discharges because of odd electric field activity in and over forests during storms, yet they have never been documented outside the lab.

Rivian R2 production has started despite tornado damage to factory

The company's all-important mass-market EV is just about ready to start heading to customers. The company's all-important mass-market EV is just about ready to start heading to customers. The first StrictlyVC of 2026 hits SF on April 30. Tickets are going fast. Register now. Save up to $680 on your Disrupt 2026 pass. Ends 11:59 p.m. PT tonight. REGISTER NOW . Rivian has rolled the first customer-ready R2 SUVs off the production line at its factory in Normal, Illinois, just days after it was hit by an EF-1 tornado that tore off part of the roof.

He Was Threatened by the Russian Mafia 🤯

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OpenAI teams up with Infosys to bring AI tools to more businesses

Infosys said the integration will be used to help its clients modernize software development, automate workflows, and deploy AI systems, initially focusing software engineering, legacy modernization, and DevOps.

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Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

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Cosmetics giant Rituals confirms data breach of customer membership records

The cosmetics retailer, which counts 41 million customers in its membership data, declined to provide an accurate total number of customers affected.

Cathie Woods’ ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI

Lucra offers corporate loyalty programs reimagined as interactive eSports. But winning ARK as a lead wasn't easy.

Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie

Emily Hart" is a young, AI-created conservative woman who likes to take off her clothes.