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.

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.

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.

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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, plus IonQ's move into vertical integration with its SkyWater acquisition.

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, Alphabet, IBM, ServiceNow, and Intel.

Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack OpenAI's reported equity offer to the U.S. government, Anthropic's phased return following export controls, and why AWS and Microsoft are betting billions on the engineers who deploy AI rather than the labs that train it. They also dig into NVIDIA's response to its roadmap critics, Meta's expanding cloud ambitions, and the week's biggest market developments, from SpaceX to Samsung. Catch the full analysis on Episode 311 of The Six Five Pod.

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On Episode 310 of The Six Five Pod, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack the biggest stories from the week, including insights from Qualcomm Investor Day 2026, OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño AI chip, Anthropic's Micron partnership, SpaceX's massive Reflection AI compute deal, Sakana AI's new Fugu orchestrator, and why memory is emerging as a critical layer of AI infrastructure. Plus, Bulls & Bears covers NVIDIA's $25B bond offering, Apple's MacBook price increases, Micron's record quarter, and Cerebras' first earnings as a public company.

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Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman return from a packed week of travel, covering HPE Discover 2026 and Pure Accelerate hosted by Everpure. They break down the government-forced shutdown of Anthropic's Mythos 5, the Apple-Intel foundry signal, the xAI-Cursor acquisition, and whether enterprise AI spending is actually contracting or simply concentrating. Episode 309 of The Six Five Pod covers the week’s events, market moves, and the structural questions that follow.

Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman cover Tim Cook's final WWDC as CEO and Apple's Gemini-powered Siri strategy, the $35 billion Apollo and Blackstone deal backing Anthropic's capacity expansion, Intel's packaging wins with Google and NVIDIA, SpaceX's IPO at a $1.77 trillion valuation, Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 launch across every major cloud, and earnings reactions from Oracle, Micron, and Adobe.