Robert Hof

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

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Everyone wants to make AI chips, UK antitrust hawks eye cloud providers, and MGM rebuffs ransom demand

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

Generative artificial intelligence continued to dominate the news this week as Anthropic reportedly is raising an additional $2 billion from Google and others, and reports indicated that gen AI partners OpenAI and Microsoft are each looking to design their own AI chips during …

Big money chases AI, antitrust chases big tech, and the metaverse lives

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

Generative artificial intelligence continued to dominate the headlines this week, as Amazon Web Services swooped in with a multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic and OpenAI looked to sell employee shares at a — ahem — $90 billion valuation. Meanwhile, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam …

Cisco swallows Splunk, the gen AI freight train barrels ahead and Intel touts progress

SECURITY By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity dominated the enterprise technology headlines this week as Cisco Systems Inc. bought Splunk Inc. and two of the leading cybersecurity names, CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Google LLC’s Mandiant held their annual events. And that wasn’t all: Two more initial public offerings …

Cisco boosts its cybersecurity and AI ambitions with $28B acquisition of Splunk

SECURITY By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

In the biggest acquisition in its nearly 39-year history, networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. today announced a deal to buy the cybersecurity and data observation and analysis company Splunk Inc. for $28 billion. The move catapults Cisco, best known for its networking …

Arm’s IPO rockets, gen AI explodes computing and Salesforce spotlights the AI trust gap

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

With so many events and big news this week, I wish I could have cloned myself, but instead I shuttled between events in San Francisco and Silicon Valley and tried to keep up with all the news on my phone. The headline …

This week in enterprise: Arm readies its IPO, antitrust bites big tech and caution tempers good earnings

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

The week started out slowly because of the Labor Day holiday — or maybe because a lot of CEOs and VCs were stuck in the mud at Burning Man — but there was plenty of news as the week wore on. The gist: …

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

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

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 …

This week in enterprise: Tech IPOs gain steam, AI keeps booming and WMware reaches for relevance

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

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 …

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

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

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. …

Palo Alto Networks beats earnings forecast amid slower cybersecurity spending

SECURITY By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

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%, …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Everyone wants to make AI chips, UK antitrust hawks eye cloud providers, and MGM rebuffs ransom demand

Big money chases AI, antitrust chases big tech, and the metaverse lives

Cisco swallows Splunk, the gen AI freight train barrels ahead and Intel touts progress

Cisco boosts its cybersecurity and AI ambitions with $28B acquisition of Splunk

Arm’s IPO rockets, gen AI explodes computing and Salesforce spotlights the AI trust gap

This week in enterprise: Arm readies its IPO, antitrust bites big tech and caution tempers good earnings

This week in enterprise: Tech IPOs gain steam, AI keeps booming and WMware reaches for relevance

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

Palo Alto Networks beats earnings forecast amid slower cybersecurity spending

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