Manufacturing SMBs are under pressure to do more with less while navigating workforce challenges and rising operational complexity. AI is shifting the industry from visibility into more autonomous decision-making.

Daniel Newman and Greg Lotko speak with Darren Surch, CEO of Interskill, about how agentic AI is reshaping enterprise IT training. The conversation explores why mainframe organizations still need deep knowledge, structured learning, and human judgment even as AI becomes a larger part of the workflow.

AI is now an execution race defined by infrastructure. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman break down how compute shortages, energy constraints, and security risks are reshaping the race from building models to actually running them at scale. From chip supply and hyperscaler strategy to AI-native security and the growing case for regulation, this episode maps the pressure points defining what it really takes to turn AI investment into production reality.

Episode 300 marks a milestone moment for The Six Five Pod as AI shifts from innovation to consequence. This week, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack the risks of frontier models, the growing complexity of AI deployment, and the market signals that reveal where tech is heading next.

Dennis Woodside, CEO of Freshworks, joins Daniel Newman to discuss how AI is moving beyond experimentation and into real enterprise outcomes, reshaping service management, pricing models, and competitive dynamics.

Host Diana Blass and Six Five Media bring together Dell leaders to explore how enterprise PCs and workstations are evolving for the AI era with AI workloads, engineering innovations, and premium user experiences, reshaping the future of enterprise computing.

Daniel Newman sits down with Chris Koopmans, President and COO of Marvell, to discuss how AI is reshaping data center infrastructure, why connectivity is becoming a critical constraint, and how optical technologies are enabling the next phase of scale.

OpenAI locks in the largest private funding round in history, Google disrupts memory economics with a major efficiency breakthrough, and NVIDIA continues to consolidate control over AI infrastructure. This week, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack the clear shift from model competition to full-stack execution.

Melody Brue, VP and Principal Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, and Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at The Futurum Group, recap Adobe Summit 2026 from Las Vegas. The conversation covers CX Enterprise as an architectural consolidation, the creativity-to-marketing convergence thesis, governance messaging gaps, enterprise proof points from the strategy sessions, and what the investor narrative signals about Adobe's trajectory.