On this episode of The Six Five Pod, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the latest tech news stories that made headlines. This week’s handpicked topics include:

 

NVIDIA & AMD get greenlight to sell & ship chips to China (The Decode)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/15/business/NVIDIA-resume-h20-chip-sales-to-china-intl-hnk 

https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945509802211254661 

https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945089356022096361

https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945049406199226857

https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945049728141447261

https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1944939965953011869

https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945084756619571695

https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945120959314141508

https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945317350573519001

https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945439985139691965

https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945509802211254661

https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945504256821457108

https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945582561066877304

National-Security Concerns Tie Up Trump’s U.A.E. Chips Deal (The Decode)

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/national-security-concerns-tie-up-trumps-u-a-e-chips-deal-a0273815

https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945816740987797799

DoD $200M Investment In AI Companies + Grok in the Pentagon + xAI (The Decode)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/anthropic-google-openai-xai-granted-up-to-200-million-from-dod.html

Trump Touts Billions in Investments to Create AI Hub in Pennsylvania https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/trump-to-tout-billions-in-investments-to-create-ai-hub-in-pennsylvania-1e9afa89?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAi_pJAtfK0fPCCk3S5NJcha_SuAm3XOeUy0DRuI3CMWo2gZdOaIlyBtlxQUyAo%3D&gaa_ts=68781440&gaa_sig=_Yqa5IRyVzkkxPc_xhj_byTz9tIqmfU3uYprcwrEJY-8pMkq1FCK9CZsPqsyMrV7gPK26K5Gon8bw2Vp_cu5xQ%3D%3D

Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI (The Decode)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grok-elon-musk-xai-pentagon-contract/

https://x.ai/news/government

AWS New York Summit Keynote (The Decode) https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945501010824413579

https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945501932270850512

https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1945502428100505736 

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-summit-agentic-ai-innovations-2025 

AWS KIro Announcement - Jason video https://youtube.com/shorts/Dlaxxbfc_k8?feature=share 

AWS is Launching an AI Agent Marketplace With Anthropic (The Decode)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/aws-is-launching-an-ai-agent-marketplace-next-week-with-anthropic-as-a-partner/ 

Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi took us inside his $35 billion acquisition of Ansys, which closes today (The Decode)

https://fortune.com/2025/07/17/synopsys-ceo-sassine-ghazi-35-billion-acquisition-ansys/

Trump intensifies trade war with threat of 30% tariffs on EU, Mexico (Bulls and Bears)

https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-announces-30-tariffs-eu-2025-07-12/

CPI and PPI (Bulls and Bears)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/ppi-inflation-report-june-2025.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/us-producer-prices-stagnated-on-decline-in-services-costs?embedded-checkout=true

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cpi-report-june-2025-inflation-trump-tariffs/

 

Trump Firing Powell? (Bulls and Bears)

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-indicated-republican-lawmakers-he-will-fire-feds-powell-cbs-reports-2025-07-16/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-does-the-federal-reserve-do-and-why-is-trump-mad-at-its-chair-jerome-powell/

 

TSMC Earnings (Bulls and Bears)

TSMC profit surges 61% to record high fueled by AI chip demand

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/tsmcs-second-quarter-profit-soars-nearly-61percent-as-ai-chip-demand-stays-strong-.html

https://x.com/FuturumEquities/status/1944741028952707502

https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1944737452150673605

https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1945790790556663909