Google Unveils New TPU 8t and TPU 8i - DTH

Want to get this show ad-free? Head to DailyTechNewsShow.com slash subscribe to find out how. These are the Daily Tech headlines for Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026. I'm Sarah Lane. Google unveiled its eighth generation TPU chips, splitting AI workloads into separate processors for training and inference, as competition with NVIDIA heats up. Google says the new chips deliver up to 2.8 times better training performance and 80% better inference performance than prior versions, while using large amounts of SRAM to improve speed and efficiency. The industry continues to shift towards custom AI silicon, with more adoption from cloud customers and partners like Anthropic and U.S. National Labs. Reuters sources say Meta plans to deploy internal software that captures employees' mouse movements, keystrokes, and screen activity to train AI models. The data collection is part of a broader push to build AI agents that can automate workplace tasks along with a restructuring that includes encouraging AI usage and also cutting about 10 of staff Meta says the data won be used for performance reviews but of course not everyone believes that with significant workplace surveillance and privacy concerns being raised. SpaceX intends to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion or alternatively pay $10 billion for a collaboration as part of a broader push into AI. The deal would give Cursor access to xAI's computing infrastructure and also strengthen SpaceX's expanding AI ambitions alongside Elon Musk's other ventures. Cursor has faced scaling hurdles due to limited compute resources and sees this deal as a way to accelerate model development. SpaceX is gearing up for an IPO that could reportedly happen as early as June. OpenAI has updated its image generator to ChatGPT Images 2.0, adding thinking capabilities that let it pull information from the web and generate multiple consistent images from a single prompt. The new GPT-Image2 model improves instruction following, text rendering, and supports up to eight images at once with consistent characters and styles. The tool also adds higher resolution output more aspect ratios and better multilingual text generation Paid subscribers get more advanced features Mozilla used Anthropix Mythos Preview model to identify and fix 271 vulnerabilities in its latest Firefox release proving that AI can significantly accelerate bug discovery. Researchers say the influx of AI-found flaws requires major workflow changes for developers, who now have to handle higher volumes of security issues. Mozilla warns AI won't fundamentally upend cybersecurity, but creates a difficult transition period as both defenders and attackers have access to the same tools. Anthropic also briefly removed its Cloud Code feature from the ProPlan on parts of its website, which concerned some developers, but the company says this is only a test affecting about 2% of new users. Anthropic says it's experimenting with pricing and feature bundles as usage of its AI tools surges and outpaces subscription economics, with some workloads costing far more than users are paying. YouTube started muting mobile push notifications from channels users haven't watched or engaged with in the past month following earlier testing. The change is supposed to reduce notification overload and prevent users from turning off alerts entirely, which can hurt engagement and revenue Notifications from inactive channels will still appear inside the app while active viewers and infrequent uploaders aren affected Variety sources say that Netflix is among several potential buyers interested in acquiring the historic Radford Studio Center in Studio City California which recently went into foreclosure and is now controlled by Goldman Sachs The property's value has dropped sharply from its $1.85 billion purchase price back in 2021, with a possible sale around $400 million as occupancy has declined and interest rates have risen. Netflix continues to expand its production infrastructure. And finally today, Microsoft is cutting prices for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass in response to complaints about rising costs. But users now won't get Call of Duty titles on day one. Instead, new releases will arrive on the service about a year later, a shift in how Microsoft monetizes one of its biggest franchises. The move continues an effort to rebalance pricing and value after price hikes made the subscription less attractive to some users. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to dailytechnewsshow.com. That's where you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. Thank you for listening. I'm Sarah Lane, and we'll talk to you tomorrow. Thank you.