Robert Hof

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

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THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE

No holiday for AI, chipmakers or cyber criminals

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 out this week, with more in coming weeks. Here’s a sampling of the ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE

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

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 antitrust fire on two fronts, consolidation and even new fundings in enterprise software ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE

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

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 open-source community is weighing in with the contention that AI models will be ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE

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

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 its I/O conference (pictured) would be coming this year, is still only partially ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE

Amazon bolsters its cloud with generative AI as it embraces frugality

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 video studio theCUBE, as well as our newly constituted market research arm theCUBE ...

OpenAI drama finally ends but proves the battle for AI supremacy remains wide open

What else mattered this week besides OpenAI? Well, plenty, but nothing to match the drama as CEO Sam Altman first gets fired, then rehired within days as nearly the entirely company revolts against the erstwhile board, to great joy among the troops (pictured). There’s still mystery behind the precise reasons for the internal split, but ...

Microsoft hires Sam Altman and others for new AI research group – maybe! – as most OpenAI staff threaten to leave

Updated with continuing uncertainty: The unprecedented drama at OpenAI continues today as 49% investor Microsoft Corp. put its big feet down and hired former Chief Executive Sam Altman and co-founder and former President Greg Brockman for a new artificial intelligence research group at Microsoft. The move comes as more than 500 of OpenAI’s 770-person staff ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE

Generative AI gets the Microsoft treatment, supercomputers get the AI treatment – and Sam Altman gets the boot

Microsoft is now the Copilot company, Chief Executive Satya Nadella declared this week at the company’s Ignite conference, not only spreading generative AI across its products but also announcing its first AI processor designs. The flurry of news at Ignite was just one sign of how much gen AI is getting infused into every enterprise ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE

Big talk and big bucks in generative AI, but is it peaking?

The battle of the generative artificial intelligence models grew even more fierce this week, with little sign of abating. We saw new OpenAI capabilities — which in turn suggest a whole new enterprise software market and even app stores — along with Elon Musk’s bold xAI, Kai-Fu Lee’s Chinese company 01.AI and Samsung’s edge-based Gauss, as ...
THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE

AI regulation arrives, SBF goes down and gen AI lifts earnings outlooks

That was quick: It’s a wrap for Sam Bankman-Fried, whose jury took only about four hours to decide he’s guilty on all counts. Now, pending an appeal, the main question is how long he’ll be behind bars. SBF’s conviction was the capper for a busy week. Regulations finally came to artificial intelligence purveyors around the ...