Robert Hof

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

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Meta, Amazon and Microsoft post huge earnings, but tech layoffs pile up

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

In the biggest set of earnings results of the new year, not every tech company outperformed, but those that did really set the pace for a better year. Meta Platforms’ stock jumped 20% on Friday after profits tripled, while investors also liked …

Deepfakes in the wild, more big AI funding rounds, a mixed bag for earnings, and more layoffs

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

If you thought social media was a problem for the 2016 and 2020 elections, look out: This week the political deepfakes arrived, as bad actors created videos and audio impersonating President Joe Biden and Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips. Even Taylor Swift …

Deceptive AIs, busy trustbusters and Apple’s pricey big bet

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

To their credit, artificial intelligence companies and researchers are looking more deeply at the unintended consequences of generative AI. This week, Anthropic showed how AI can be taught to deceive, though it didn’t offer a solution to that alarming possibility. OpenAI did …

HPE bids for Juniper, layoffs surge and AI dominates CES

INFRA By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

With the CES consumer electronics show as usual setting the news year in motion, the technology industry got busy again this week. The biggest deal, and biggest surprise, was Hewlett Packard Enterprise making a $14 billion bid for Juniper Networks, for better …

Here comes OpenAI’s generative AI app store, and consolidation quickens in cybersecurity

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

Silicon Valley returned to work slowly and reluctantly following the holidays, starting about Wednesday based on the volume of story pitches sent to me, but there was still plenty of news. Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence, which never seems to take a vacation, …

No holiday for AI, chipmakers or cyber criminals

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

Not surprisingly, it was a pretty slow week for enterprise technology given the holidays, but there was still some significant news in artificial intelligence, chips and cybersecurity — and of course it’s that time of year for predictions, which we started rolling …

AI looks inward, antitrust bites big tech again and cybersecurity battles intensify

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

News may be slowing down this week in anticipation of the holiday next week, but cyber criminals, cyber cops and antitrust hawks are not. And despite some high-profile antitrust fallout, such as Adobe abandoning its acquisition of Figma and Apple came under …

Guardrails are coming for AI, and antitrust finally bites Big Tech

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

Even as new funding of artificial intelligence companies keeps on coming, new guardrails on the behavior of generative AI models are getting put in place as well, as we saw moves this week both by companies and by governments. What’s more, the …

Google finally joins the gen AI race in earnest, and now it’s really wide open

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

With its new AI model Gemini, Google this week cracked open the generative AI race even wider — as we said would happen following that pre-Thanksgiving OpenAI debacle. Gemini, which Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised way back in May at …

Amazon bolsters its cloud with generative AI as it embraces frugality

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

Not for the first time, this week was all about the quickening battle for leadership in artificial intelligence, especially the generative variety. That was abundantly clear at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, which SiliconANGLE and its livestreaming …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Deepfakes in the wild, more big AI funding rounds, a mixed bag for earnings, and more layoffs

Deceptive AIs, busy trustbusters and Apple’s pricey big bet

HPE bids for Juniper, layoffs surge and AI dominates CES

Here comes OpenAI’s generative AI app store, and consolidation quickens in cybersecurity

No holiday for AI, chipmakers or cyber criminals

AI looks inward, antitrust bites big tech again and cybersecurity battles intensify

Guardrails are coming for AI, and antitrust finally bites Big Tech

Google finally joins the gen AI race in earnest, and now it’s really wide open

Amazon bolsters its cloud with generative AI as it embraces frugality

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