Robert Hof

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

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AI agents are on the march, but will they justify the endless big spending on AI?

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

Agentic artificial intelligence, the notion of AI agents that can semiautonomously conduct a series of tasks without much human involvement, gained even more momentum this week, as OpenAI said its Operator agent is coming in January. David Linthicum tells us what else is …

Is generative AI hitting a ceiling? Maybe, but investors don’t care

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

Of course the presidential election looms over everything, and I’ll just say one thing: Any executives or investors counting on President-elect Donald Trump keeping the vast majority of promises he has made are not as smart as they think they are. Maybe they …

AI drives a cloud resurgence, but it’s costing a lot

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

Generative artificial intelligence is driving a resurgence in cloud spending, as earnings results from Amazon Web Services and Google this week both saw upside from forecasts. Even Microsoft’s disappointing Azure revenue forecasts came from not having enough infrastructure to support more business, a factor Amazon CEO …

AI model madness vs. AI model skeptics

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

New artificial intelligence models keep arriving every day — make that several times a day now, judging from the list below — and you have to wonder if customers can keep up. What do you bet your company on, when an even …

Data centers try to cool it as AI explodes, and Big Tech goes nuclear

INFRA By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

What a turnaround for nuclear power — and it’s all thanks to artificial intelligence. This week two more Big Tech companies bet on nukes as Google and Amazon joined the party Microsoft started a few weeks ago. All that training of AI models takes a lot …

AMD doubles down on AI, Google faces possible breakup and ‘causal AI’ is coming

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

Concerns are mounting over when and how all this investment in artificial intelligence will pay off — even at AI leader OpenAI, which reportedly predicts it will lose $14 billion in 2026 on $100 billion in revenue and won’t make a profit …

OpenAI sets a VC fundraising record — but can it fulfill the promise?

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

If OpenAI could just monetize all the ink that gets spilled on the company, perhaps it could justify raising such a crazy amount of money this week. And get this: The $6.6 billion round, at a (gulp) $157 billion valuation, the biggest VC round …

OpenAI’s talent exodus: Sam Altman says everything’s fine and superintelligence is on the way!

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

This week brought yet another big shakeup at OpenAI, as Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and others quit. But CEO Sam Altman seems to be cementing his control. And Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said in a memo that OpenAI’s oversubscribed (no, …

AI boosts nuclear power, Salesforce bets on agents, and the remote-work era winds down

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence infrastructure is taking really big bucks now to build out, as BlackRock and Microsoft joined this week to invest up to $100 billion in AI data centers and power projects. And that’s not all: Microsoft also teamed up with Constellation Energy …

AI bears fruit: Apple slowly infuses AI into iPhones, OpenAI debuts first Strawberry models

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

This was the week that Apple finally infused artificial intelligence into its new iPhones, Watches and AirPods, though some of features won’t be coming for a bit and overall, the AI stuff seemed a little underwhelming. The medical features such as AirPods’ ability …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

AI agents are on the march, but will they justify the endless big spending on AI?

Is generative AI hitting a ceiling? Maybe, but investors don’t care

AI drives a cloud resurgence, but it’s costing a lot

AI model madness vs. AI model skeptics

Data centers try to cool it as AI explodes, and Big Tech goes nuclear

AMD doubles down on AI, Google faces possible breakup and ‘causal AI’ is coming

OpenAI sets a VC fundraising record — but can it fulfill the promise?

OpenAI’s talent exodus: Sam Altman says everything’s fine and superintelligence is on the way!

AI boosts nuclear power, Salesforce bets on agents, and the remote-work era winds down

AI bears fruit: Apple slowly infuses AI into iPhones, OpenAI debuts first Strawberry models

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