Robert Hof

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

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

AI By ROBERT HOF1 YEAR AGO

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 the way to AI agents, the next big …

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

AI By ROBERT HOF1 YEAR AGO

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 software to get stuff done. As Dave Vellante …

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

AI By ROBERT HOF1 YEAR AGO

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 appeals court put a temporary hold on that …

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

AI By ROBERT HOF1 YEAR AGO

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 the upper hand, vibe-wise, with a flurry of …

AI leaders stare down limits as they keep spending big

AI By ROBERT HOF1 YEAR AGO

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 economy. Herald the coming of the software-only cloud …

Enterprise stalwarts get serious about AI agents

AI By ROBERT HOF1 YEAR AGO

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 using agents and debuted more agents to provide …

At RSAC, AI disrupts the cybersecurity status quo

AI By ROBERT HOF1 YEAR AGO

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 and defenders may actually make people and their …

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

AI By ROBERT HOF1 YEAR AGO

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 week. But investors are understandably wary, because nobody …

Damn the tariffs! Full speed ahead on AI!

AI By ROBERT HOF1 YEAR AGO

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 the U.S. government, as a House committee just …

At Next, Google Cloud makes a credible claim to lead the new era of enterprise AI

AI By ROBERT HOF1 YEAR AGO

Google made a full-court press on artificial intelligence this week at its Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas, but the surprise is that it finally has a strategy and story that may give it a chance to lead the coming era of …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

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!

At Next, Google Cloud makes a credible claim to lead the new era of enterprise AI

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