Robert Hof

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

Latest from Robert Hof

AI startups’ funding frenzy, where AWS goes next, and what’s coming at Nvidia’s GTC event

AI By ROBERT HOF6 MONTHS AGO

Massive AI startup funding raged on this week with a couple of billion-dollar-plus rounds for Yann Lecun’s and Mira Murati’s startups, plus multiple multi-hundred-million rounds for vertical startups and tool providers — I mean, look at the AI and Data Money Matters …

Telcos try to hop on the AI train, Anthropic wars with the Pentagon, and agents threaten Microsoft

AI By ROBERT HOF6 MONTHS AGO

Can telecommunications companies leverage artificial intelligence to become, at long last, more than dumb pipes? Or, as so often has happened, will they get left behind in the coming platform shift? Maybe third or 15th time’s the charm, and they certainly tried …

Anthropic’s battles multiply, OpenAI raises its megaround and the SaaSpocalypse widens — but Dell cashes in

AI By ROBERT HOF6 MONTHS AGO

After a few weeks in which Anthropic seemed to making huge strides, not least against its bigger rival OpenAI, it was hit this week by the Defense Department’s threat to force it to let it do anything it wants with its models or …

It’s still frothy in AI, but memory chips now loom as a big bottleneck

AI By ROBERT HOF7 MONTHS AGO

You know AI is still pretty frothy when a company with no product or even publicly stated plans for one gets a billion dollars from the likes of Sequoia and maybe Nvidia, Alphabet and Microsoft. But that’s what Ineffable Intelligence just did. …

Anthropic and Databricks raise billions more. Next stop: IPOs?

AI By ROBERT HOF7 MONTHS AGO

Investors are still looking askance at both software-as-a-service and traditional companies that might get disintermediated by AI as well as the AI companies and cloud providers that are spending all that money, wondering if they’ll get the return they’re hoping for. But not …

AI torches software stocks, even as investors fret about all that AI factory spending

AI By ROBERT HOF7 MONTHS AGO

Investors think AI is going to kill or at least maim software-as-a-service companies, and a lot more. That seems a tad early, frankly, even if AI could slow SaaS’ growth story — which is why the likes of ServiceNow, Salesforce and even Palantir have …

Musk mulls a megacorp as AI dealmaking shifts into overdrive

AI By ROBERT HOF7 MONTHS AGO

AI dealmaking hit overdrive this week, and it looks like it could stay in high gear for a long time to come. For one, there’s Elon’s potential megacorp, which surely will have X somewhere in the name — maybe three Xs! By …

BitGo kicks off what could be a huge year for IPOs

AI By ROBERT HOF7 MONTHS AGO

In the first big initial public offering of 2026, the crypto platform BitGo shot out of the gate fast as initial trading jumped 25% over the offering price. Investors took a deep breath later, but the stock still rose almost 3% on …

AI lifts Alphabet to $4T valuation, but competition remains fierce

AI By ROBERT HOF8 MONTHS AGO

Google parent company Alphabet hit the $4 trillion mark this week, second only to Nvidia in market capitalization, and no wonder. It kept showing off its newfound AI prowess, as Apple will use Gemini in the background for Siri, and Google released …

AI, robotics and Nvidia’s CEO dominate the conversation at CES

AI By ROBERT HOF8 MONTHS AGO

Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence dominated the announcements and conversation at CES, as Nvidia announced new AI models and Nvidia, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm and others debuted new chips focused on AI. In particular, robotics took center stage, especially in the always …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

AI startups’ funding frenzy, where AWS goes next, and what’s coming at Nvidia’s GTC event

Telcos try to hop on the AI train, Anthropic wars with the Pentagon, and agents threaten Microsoft

Anthropic’s battles multiply, OpenAI raises its megaround and the SaaSpocalypse widens — but Dell cashes in

It’s still frothy in AI, but memory chips now loom as a big bottleneck

Anthropic and Databricks raise billions more. Next stop: IPOs?

AI torches software stocks, even as investors fret about all that AI factory spending

Musk mulls a megacorp as AI dealmaking shifts into overdrive

BitGo kicks off what could be a huge year for IPOs

AI lifts Alphabet to $4T valuation, but competition remains fierce

AI, robotics and Nvidia’s CEO dominate the conversation at CES

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