Google's new TPU 8i Max uses $ARM based Axion CPUs to prepare data and manage AI workloads, joining TPU 8t and 8i. That means 3 of Google's 4 next-gen TPU systems now use Arm host CPUs, versus x86 hosts previously. The fourth, TPU 8tx, uses $AMD EPYC CPUs.

GOOGLE RELEASES GEMINI 4 CARBON, ITS STRONGEST AI MODEL YET #1# on CursorBench 4.0 #1# on Perplexity's WANDR #1# on Zapier's AutomationBench 2X+ cheaper per task than the next best rival API: $2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens Cyber: leads SEC-bench Pro and ExploitGym Found 0-days at 2 big SaaS firms in <2 hours Prompt injection success rate: 0% Available to Google AI Ultra subscribers and paying API customers. In this Google demo, Carbon agents used Antigravity’s /swarm feature to build a playable 3D game of a pelican cycling around Google’s campus.

Google $GOOGL just posted this: “Our strongest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, is now available. Built for deeply complex, long-horizon workflows that push a frontier model’s intelligence, Carbon delivers frontier performance in agentic workflows across complex knowledge work, software engineering and web development, cybersecurity, and scientific reasoning.”