Robert Hof

Robert Hof is editor in chief of SiliconANGLE. Email: robhof@siliconangle.com

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AI’s existential crisis explodes as AI companies plunge ahead anyway – but urge a slowdown

AI By ROBERT HOF5 DAYS AGO

The resignation this week of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon over concerns that artificial intelligence labs are “gambling with our lives” lit up the long-smoldering argument about whether AI is heading in a direction hazardous to human life. Not only is he not …

Nvidia bags Hugging Face, AI models play leapfrog and CrowdStrike doubles down on AI

AI By ROBERT HOF2 WEEKS AGO

Perhaps it’s no surprise that Nvidia ended up embracing open artificial intelligence model archive Hugging Face this week following more than a week of rumors. Even at almost $13 billion, it may end up being a steal — especially for a company …

It’s Nvidia’s world. We just live in it

AI By ROBERT HOF3 WEEKS AGO

The artificial intelligence juggernaut kept cruising along this week thanks to big earnings results from Nvidia — and even Salesforce, the supposed epicenter of the SaaSpocalypse. Nvidia not only beat all expectations for revenue, CEO Jensen Huang (pictured) indicated it’s going to …

Politics hits data centers, OpenAI falls behind Anthropic and now AI is too big to fail… quietly

AI By ROBERT HOF4 WEEKS AGO

Data centers, of all things, now look like they’re going to be a prime political issue in the midterm elections and beyond. Really? Really. A Gallup survey from March said 71% of people are opposed to data centers in their areas — …

The AI party keeps roaring: Why it won’t end anytime soon

AI By ROBERT HOF1 MONTH AGO

Yes, there’s an artificial intelligence bubble, no denying that anymore — so the question becomes, “Will it burst, and when?” You’d be forgiven for thinking it could happen soon, given the continuing, seemingly never-ending funding of and spending by AI model makers, …

AMD takes on Nvidia, US takes on Chinese AI models and AI spending still spooks investors

AI By ROBERT HOF2 MONTHS AGO

Maybe Nvidia ultimately won’t win the entire AI enchilada, even as it reminded everyone this week that it offers everything you need to build AI factories. This week, Advanced Micro Devices also announced a raft of new graphics processing units, central processing units and …

The AI backlash intensifies, China gains on the US leaders, and IBM tanks

AI By ROBERT HOF2 MONTHS AGO

You know a technology is getting serious acceptance when even people in the business shift from telling the government to butt out to calling for more regulation. This is where we’re at with artificial intelligence today. A raft of AI leaders and …

AI model mania and the new chip gold rush

AI By ROBERT HOF2 MONTHS AGO

Just when you thought the artificial intelligence model race might slow down, it starts up again double-time. This week alone brought new models and related services from OpenAI (twice), Meta (also twice), SpaceXAI, Anthropic and a raft of Chinese companies. And Microsoft, …

OpenAI offers feds a stake, Anthropic gets out of AI model jail and Meta wants to be a neocloud

AI By ROBERT HOF3 MONTHS AGO

OpenAI reportedly has floated giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, perhaps the start of a series of such stakes in other AI companies as well. This no doubt has traditional anti-industrial-policy Republicans, all apparently dead now, spinning in …

AI prompts a memory-chip boom — and electronics inflation. Get used to it.

AI By ROBERT HOF3 MONTHS AGO

Even though investors are getting wary of chip stocks, prompting a two-day tech selloff this week, memory-chip maker Micron had a monster quarter and its shares jumped almost 16% Thursday. On top of that, South Korean memory chipmaker SK hynix filed for a …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

AI’s existential crisis explodes as AI companies plunge ahead anyway – but urge a slowdown

Nvidia bags Hugging Face, AI models play leapfrog and CrowdStrike doubles down on AI

It’s Nvidia’s world. We just live in it

The AI party keeps roaring: Why it won’t end anytime soon

AMD takes on Nvidia, US takes on Chinese AI models and AI spending still spooks investors

The AI backlash intensifies, China gains on the US leaders, and IBM tanks

AI model mania and the new chip gold rush

OpenAI offers feds a stake, Anthropic gets out of AI model jail and Meta wants to be a neocloud

AI prompts a memory-chip boom — and electronics inflation. Get used to it.

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