Robert Hof

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

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This week in enterprise: Google Cloud sharpens its AI story at Next, and earnings signal an improving tech outlook

As summer effectively comes to an end, enterprise tech companies continued to forget August is supposed to be for vacations — but that’s not such a bad thing. This past week Google mounted a renewed offensive in artificial intelligence at its Next cloud event, sharpening its message and its product lines alike at a packed ...
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This week in enterprise: Tech IPOs gain steam, AI keeps booming and WMware reaches for relevance

What summer vacation? Making up for lost COVID time, companies are cramming events into what is sometimes a slow tech news season, IPOs are heating up, and investors continue make big moves in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. This week VMware Inc. held what might be a last blast for its annual user conference, now called ...

This week in enterprise: Gen AI hype, cybersecurity leaders and laggards, and Cisco’s tech spending boost

Is the inevitable backlash against generative artificial intelligence at hand? Some early signals suggest the possibility, but you’d never know it from all the fundings and new products streaming out this week, as SiliconANGLE documented in a raft of stories this week. We also covered the better-than-expected quarterly earnings from Cisco Systems Inc., which gave ...

Palo Alto Networks beats earnings forecast amid slower cybersecurity spending

Palo Alto Networks Inc. today reported its fiscal fourth-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation jumped 90% from a year ago, to $482.5 million, or $1.44 a share. Net profit hit $227.7 million, or 64 cents a share. Revenue rose 26%, to $2 billion. The outlook was positive as well. For its fiscal first ...
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This week in enterprise: Cyber consolidation quickens, AI transforms programming and open-source rifts widen

Consolidation seems to be accelerating in cybersecurity, and generative artificial intelligence is transforming programming very fast. Those are two big trends that emerged this week in SiliconANGLE’s coverage of enterprise and emerging technologies. There was a lot more news on the earnings and antitrust fronts as well. And Nvidia just keeps on rolling, coming out ...
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Cloudy weather, except for AI: All of this week’s enterprise and emerging tech news you need to know

Cloud computing may be seeing some clearing, but it’s still rather overcast as enterprises continue to try to save money. Meantime, cybersecurity companies are cooling, and so are their stocks. But generative AI remains red-hot and so are the companies managing all the data that powers it. Here’s all you need to know about what ...

What you need to know from this week’s news in enterprise and emerging tech

It was another busy week in enterprise and emerging technology, as well as in Elon crazyland, which is simply too riveting to ignore, except when we get sick of it. Here’s all you need to know about what happened this week — OK, most of what you need to know — from stories in SiliconANGLE ...
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Michael Dell talks up the power of AI and Dell’s role in enabling it

For a company focused on hardware, the ability of Dell Technologies Inc. to leverage and enable emerging artificial intelligence technologies such as ChatGPT may seem like a stretch — but not to founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell. “There is a misunderstanding that AI is just in ChatGPT,” Dell (pictured, right) said in an ...

‘Salad shooter’: Why two Google tech luminaries don’t think AI chatbots are ready for prime time

Less than a week after Google LLC stumbled when it introduced its experimental artificial intelligence chatbot Bard, two Google luminaries today explained why they think AI chatbots — including OpenAI LLC’s wildly popular ChatGPT — aren’t really ready for prime time. Vint Cerf, Google’s chief internet evangelist, and John Hennessy (pictured), chairman of Google parent Alphabet ...

Cloud growth doesn’t stop economy from biting Amazon and Alphabet

The sky is no longer the limit for cloud computing giants, as the slowing economy strikes at one of tech’s biggest growth stories of the past decade. Two of the top cloud providers, Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google LLC, today revealed revenues in their cloud units, which have boosted their growth and profits for ...