Robert Hof, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Andy Jassy says AI will reduce Amazon’s workforce, but at least he’s honest about it

By Robert Hof Jun 20, 2025

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the quiet part out loud this week, predicting AI will reduce its workforce. At least he’s honest about it, even if he trotted out the “free up workers for…

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Databricks makes its play for AI agents, Meta plays catch-up, and Chime’s IPO shines

By Robert Hof Jun 13, 2025

The artificial intelligence era won’t be decided only by providers of large language models such as OpenAI. Databricks made a big play at its annual Data+AI Summit in San Francisco this week to lead…

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Snowflake ups its AI game, Circle IPO blasts off, and Elon splits with Trump

By Robert Hof Jun 6, 2025

Snowflake made a big play this week at its annual Summit to own a larger swath of the artificial intelligence opportunity — still based on data but bringing in AI models, agents and other…

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Nvidia and Dell shine on earnings, Salesforce bags Informatica, and yes, AI will kill jobs

By Robert Hof May 30, 2025

Given the impact of tariffs on a wide variety of technology companies, it was big news this week that the U.S. Court of International Trade blocked President Trump’s wildly varying tariffs — but an…

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Google and Microsoft heat up the AI race as OpenAI opens new front with big acquisition

By Robert Hof May 23, 2025

It was all about AI at all the big events this week — Microsoft Build, Google I/O, Dell Tech World, Red Hat Summit and even Computex. This time at I/O, Google appeared to get…

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AI leaders stare down limits as they keep spending big

By Robert Hof May 16, 2025

Initial public offerings of stock inched back this week as eToro’s IPO soared 29% over its initial price, Chime filed and Pony AI in China filed confidentially. But don’t expect a full-scale return in this choppy…

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Enterprise stalwarts get serious about AI agents

By Robert Hof May 9, 2025

Established enterprise tech providers that aren’t cloud giants are getting serious about AI agents too. IBM, for one, unveiled a raft of AI agent capabilities and ServiceNow invaded Salesforce’s core customer relationship management market…

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At RSAC, AI disrupts the cybersecurity status quo

By Robert Hof May 2, 2025

At this week’s RSAC 2025, the premier cybersecurity conference, the talk was all about replatforming security, and how artificial intelligence agents may affect that trend. Interestingly, the push-pull impact of generative AI helping both attackers…

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Big Tech escapes tariffs’ impact for now, but investors are wary — and should be

By Robert Hof Apr 25, 2025

Investors mostly breathed a sigh of relief this week that Trump’s tariffs haven’t yet hit tech company earnings. Alphabet, SAP, ServiceNow and most chipmakers managed to dodge the impact in their latest reports this…

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Damn the tariffs! Full speed ahead on AI!

By Robert Hof Apr 18, 2025

Seemingly oblivious to the faltering economy, new artificial intelligence models kept coming fast and furious this week, especially from OpenAI — and apparently they’re pretty popular. China’s DeepSeek? Not so much, at least with…

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Andy Jassy says AI will reduce Amazon’s workforce, but at least he’s honest about it

Databricks makes its play for AI agents, Meta plays catch-up, and Chime’s IPO shines

Snowflake ups its AI game, Circle IPO blasts off, and Elon splits with Trump

Nvidia and Dell shine on earnings, Salesforce bags Informatica, and yes, AI will kill jobs

Google and Microsoft heat up the AI race as OpenAI opens new front with big acquisition

AI leaders stare down limits as they keep spending big

Enterprise stalwarts get serious about AI agents

At RSAC, AI disrupts the cybersecurity status quo

Big Tech escapes tariffs’ impact for now, but investors are wary — and should be

Damn the tariffs! Full speed ahead on AI!

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