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The Six Five with Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman

The Six Five with Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman

Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman 100 Episodes Oct 12, 2026

Leading global tech analysts Patrick Moorhead (Moor Insights & Strategy) and Daniel Newman (Futurum Research) are front and center on The Six Five analyzing the tech industry's biggest news each and every week and also conducting interviews with tech industry insiders on a regular basis.

Episodes

Windows Goes Hybrid, Marvell's $90B Target, and the AI Routing Race | The Six Five Pod Ep. 323
Windows Goes Hybrid, Marvell's $90B Target, and the AI Routing Race | The Six Five Pod Ep. 323 Oct 12, 2026 01:08:26 On Episode 323 of The Six Five Pod, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack the biggest stories from the week, including Microsoft and NVIDIA's hybrid intelligence push for Windows, Marvell's Investor Day, new models from Anthropic, Mistral, and Reflection, the AI labs' accountability hearings in New York and Australia, Google's model-neutral Gemini agent, and whether temporary construction jobs
The Six Five Pod | EP 322: AI Writes Its Own Rules, Copilot Bills by the Task, and Memory Names Its Price
The Six Five Pod | EP 322: AI Writes Its Own Rules, Copilot Bills by the Task, and Memory Names Its Price Oct 5, 2026 01:07:18 The companies racing to build frontier AI just agreed to referee themselves. Over the same week, launches, investor days, and earnings put a price on that arrangement. Microsoft is charging for finished work, NVIDIA is selling agent containment as infrastructure, and the suppliers AI can't route around, from Synopsys to Micron, are collecting the premium. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman separat
Meta's Muse Moment, AMD's Trillion-Dollar Milestone, and the Agent-Driven CPU Rally
Meta's Muse Moment, AMD's Trillion-Dollar Milestone, and the Agent-Driven CPU Rally Sep 28, 2026 01:00:34 Meta's Muse launch turned a consumer AI agent into a CPU demand story, a new round of frontier model releases sharpened the fight over token economics, and AMD crossed the trillion-dollar mark on the same compute thesis. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman break down Meta Connect, Qualcomm's agentic-device push, the AI policy debate, and whether Meta has finally cracked mainstream AI wearables. The
Anthropic's AI Slowdown, OpenAI's $1.2T Valuation & Salesforce's AI Bet | Six Five Pod EP 320
Anthropic's AI Slowdown, OpenAI's $1.2T Valuation & Salesforce's AI Bet | Six Five Pod EP 320 Sep 21, 2026 01:02:51 Anthropic's "Pace the Frontier" essay set off a week in which nearly every major AI leader, and two heads of state, weighed in on whether the frontier should slow down. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman read the incident as something larger than a safety debate. Whoever sets the pace of the frontier also sets the pace for open-weight models, enterprise custom models, and the trillion-dollar valua
AI Safety Alarms, China's Distillation Reckoning, and Qualcomm's AWS Breakthrough: A Pivotal Week for Enterprise AI
AI Safety Alarms, China's Distillation Reckoning, and Qualcomm's AWS Breakthrough: A Pivotal Week for Enterprise AI Sep 14, 2026 01:10:12 A viral AI extinction claim, a federal advisory naming six Chinese AI labs for industrial-scale distillation, and a $60 billion Qualcomm-AWS silicon pact define a week when enterprise AI risk and opportunity collided head-on. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman weigh in on what's signal and what's noise across AI safety, chip supply deals, and a market rally still betting big on compute. The handpi
NVIDIA's $12.93B Hugging Face Deal, Anthropic's Compute Buildout, and a Blowout AI Earnings Week
NVIDIA's $12.93B Hugging Face Deal, Anthropic's Compute Buildout, and a Blowout AI Earnings Week Sep 7, 2026 01:00:52 NVIDIA closes its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, Anthropic signs its third $30 billion-plus compute deal in three weeks, and Signal65 launches its new PINNACLE agentic AI benchmark just in time to catch Claude Fable 5.1 topping the charts, all while Dell, HPE, Broadcom, and Snowflake post a blowout week of AI-driven earnings. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman have all the details on
Claudeforce, AWS's 2 Million GPU Bet, and the Earnings Week That Buried the SaaSpocalypse
Claudeforce, AWS's 2 Million GPU Bet, and the Earnings Week That Buried the SaaSpocalypse Aug 31, 2026 01:09:02 Salesforce and Anthropic launch Claudeforce as Marc Benioff and Dario Amodei explain the collaboration together on CNBC, AWS commits to 2 million more NVIDIA GPUs on top of its GTC pledge, plus six new earnings this week from NVIDIA, Salesforce, Synopsys, HP, Everpure, and Marvell test every bear thesis on AI infrastructure and software at once. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman also cover Hot Ch
Marvell's $120B Google Win, Modular's Open Compiler Play, and the Fight Over NVIDIA's Ohio Scale-Back
Marvell's $120B Google Win, Modular's Open Compiler Play, and the Fight Over NVIDIA's Ohio Scale-Back Aug 24, 2026 59:32 Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman break down Marvell's $120 billion custom-silicon deal with Google, Qualcomm-owned Modular's open-source compiler push at ModCon 2026, and state-level pushback against AI data center construction in Texas and Pennsylvania. The hosts also flip roles to debate whether NVIDIA's reduced Ohio financing guarantee signals cracks in the AI infrastructure buildout. The han
NVIDIA's $500B AI Bet, Anthropic's Watermark Gamble & the Edge AI Debate | Ep. 315
NVIDIA's $500B AI Bet, Anthropic's Watermark Gamble & the Edge AI Debate | Ep. 315 Aug 17, 2026 01:07:49 NVIDIA mobilizes over $500 billion in third-party capital to finance AI infrastructure, Anthropic doubles down on data-center ownership and mandatory content watermarking, and Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman debate whether distributed AI at the edge is finally ready to accelerate, all on Ep. 315 of The Six Five Pod. The handpicked topics for this week are: NVIDIA Turns AI Compute Into an Asse
Six Five Pod Ep. 314: TerraFab, Memory's Comeback, and the Custom Silicon Debate
Six Five Pod Ep. 314: TerraFab, Memory's Comeback, and the Custom Silicon Debate Aug 10, 2026 01:12:01 Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman cover Tesla and SpaceX's $16.8 billion TerraFab chip factory, Samsung's zHBM debut at FMS 2026, a week of frontier model launches, and a simulated debate for "The Flip" over whether custom silicon will capture the majority of AI workload dollars by 2028. The episode closes with earnings from SpaceX, Palantir, AMD, Astera Labs, IonQ, and Lattice Semiconductor. The
Open Models, the Memory Tax, and a 24-Hour Market Whiplash: Episode 313
Open Models, the Memory Tax, and a 24-Hour Market Whiplash: Episode 313 Aug 3, 2026 01:07:18 Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman break down a chaotic week that included Jensen Huang's debut on X in defense of open models, a new enterprise agentic reference blueprint from EY, NVIDIA, and LangChain, and a 24-hour market whiplash triggered by a hedge fund's forced liquidation into Citadel. The hosts also cover a stacked earnings week from Microsoft, Meta, Qualcomm, Arm, Apple, and Amazon, plu
OpenAI's IPO Filing Meets a Hugging Face Breach as AMD Claims 75% Hyperscaler CPU Share
OpenAI's IPO Filing Meets a Hugging Face Breach as AMD Claims 75% Hyperscaler CPU Share Jul 27, 2026 01:03:50 OpenAI files for a trillion-dollar IPO the same week a pre-release model breaches Hugging Face and 42 state attorneys general open a coordinated investigation. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman also break down AMD's hyperscaler CPU numbers from Advancing AI, the Moonshot distillation accusations, a wave of coordinated AI governance moves in Washington, and a stacked earnings slate spanning TSMC,

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