The Download: Europe’s heat wave hits the grid, and IBM’s chip targets Moore’s Law

MIT Technology Review's daily briefing covers several major stories: IBM has unveiled a prototype chip with ~100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized area, doubling transistor density from 2021 and potentially extending Moore's Law by building transistors upward rather than shrinking them. Europe is experiencing a record heat wave straining power grids, with some plants offline during historically planned maintenance windows. Anthropic has accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting Claude's capabilities via model distillation, calling it the largest known distillation attack. OpenAI and Broadcom revealed their first jointly designed AI chip called Jalapeño. Additional items cover the EU joining a US pact against Chinese AI, data center-driven inflation in memory chips, and companies struggling to control AI token spending costs.

Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/25/1139738/the-download-europe-heat-wave-ibm-chip-moores-law. 8 Sync News only summarizes and links out; content copyright belongs to the authors and original sources.