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Google Cloud Debuts New AI Chips

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🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Google Cloud's latest generation of tensor processing units, or TPU, and the Alphabet division’s new partnerships. Plus, a small group of unauthorized users has accessed Anthropic's new AI model, Mythos, according to a source and documents reviewed by Bloomberg. And Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe joins as his company’s new R2 model, its smaller, cheaper SUV, begins rolling off the manufacturing floor in Normal, Illinois.

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0:00.0

Bloomberg Audio Studios.

0:04.7

Podcasts, Radio News.

0:11.7

Bloomberg Tech is live from coast to coast,

0:14.9

with Caroline Hyde in New York and Ed Lovello in San Francisco.

0:21.3

This is Bloomberg Tech.

0:22.8

Coming up, Alphabet's Google Cloud Division unveils the latest generation of its

0:26.6

tensor processing unit, or TPU, and announces a slew of partnership deals or break it all down.

0:32.7

Plus, a small group of unauthorized users has accessed Anthropics' new AI model mythos, which the company says can enable dangerous cyber attacks. And we'll catch up with Rivian CEO, RJ Scarrange, to discuss a big milestone for the company's new R2. That's later this hour. At first, we check in on these markets, which managed to be shrugging off, yet further chaos that occurs in

0:54.9

the straight-of-war moves. The oil market doesn't shrug it off, and we're currently seeing

0:58.0

Brent up almost 3%, we're back above $100 a barrel. What's interesting is equities managed

1:03.2

to push through that inflationary headwind and that geopolitical anxiety. In fact, we've got new record

1:09.1

high on the NASDAQ-100, S&P 500, very close to that

1:12.3

record. So, Ed, there is a lot of optimism. A lot of it's around earnings and other news.

1:16.8

Yeah, news is driving stocks. Google had a big jump in the pre-market, carried over into the main

1:23.1

session and is sustained up 1.7%. There is a lot of Google News to weigh through.

1:28.6

First, let's talk about tensor processing units or TPUs.

1:32.4

Alphabet's Google Cloud Division unveiled the latest generation of its TPUs,

1:37.0

designed to make AI computing services faster and more efficient.

1:41.3

The U-Line-up comes in two versions.

1:43.3

The TPU-8T for creating AI software

1:46.5

and the TPUA-I for running AI services that have been created. In other words, Carrow,

1:52.2

training and inference specific. I mean, it sounds like Amazon in many ways with their chips

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