Robert Hof

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

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Dell lays off thousands of workers in sales reorganization

Updated: Dell Technologies Inc. is laying off an unspecified number of employees in a reorganization of sales and marketing teams, according to sources. According to Bloomberg today, the reorganization includes a new group focused on artificial intelligence services. Update: One source close to the matter had told SiliconANGLE that 12,500 layoffs, or about 10% of ...
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Wait, will generative AI really pay off? Inquiring investors want to know

Amid a glut of funding for artificial intelligence companies, there’s understandably increasing concern among investors this past week, apparent in disappointment in the earnings results of a number of technology companies, whether all this will pay off. We’re at the point in the investment cycle where it’s hard to tell, though to my eyes, it ...
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New AI models flood the market even as AI takes fire from regulators, actors and researchers

Vice President Kamala Harris’ presumed ascension to the Democratic presidential nomination following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal scrambled this week certainly scrambled the race, but it also set everyone in tech wondering what a Harris administration might mean. Bottom line: Nobody knows — and of course there’s no guarantee she will win the election come November, ...
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CrowdStrike breaks the internet and generative AI gets the side eye

CrowdStrike Holdings ended the week with a bang, or more like a whimper from system administrators around the world, as it sort of broke the internet by issuing an update to its software with a defect that took down Windows computers everywhere. The cybersecurity company issued a workaround, but the incident, which affected banks, airlines and ...
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AWS aims its AI push at enterprises, and the chip industry dreams of an AI boom

Despite the seeming dominance of OpenAI and Microsoft in generative artificial intelligence, it’s becoming clear that the other cloud providers, not to mention AI startups, will make this anything but a winner-take-all business. Amazon Web Services made it latest bid to be a major player at its summit in New York this week, aiming to ...
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The AI money train keeps rolling, but the environmental toll keeps growing too

Investors are still betting big on artificial intelligence, as this past week alone they put $450 million in Runway AI, $200 million into Magic AI and $100 million in Harvey, among others. AI also helped Samsung rock its preliminary earnings reported this week. Meantime, SK Hynix is investing a stunning $75B in its AI chipmaking business. But ...
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Generative AI’s big copyright battle commences, and chip upstarts target AI workloads

It’s perhaps the biggest signal yet that generative artificial intelligence model providers aren’t going to get a free content ride: Record labels this week sued two AI music generators, and this one may prove to be the big battle over AI and copyright. Meantime, the European Union is putting more heat on Microsoft, and it’s clear those ...
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AI models keep getting smarter — but how smart can they get?

As Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company this week, if only for a few days, it’s apparent that the race to develop even better generative artificial intelligence models isn’t slowing down. This week we saw Anthropic provide a leap in its Claude large language model, along with news that OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup ...
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AI everywhere: Apple finally makes a splash, the data wars intensify and the big bucks still keep rolling in

It wasn’t exactly on the scale of the introduction of the iPhone or even the iPod, but Apple this week managed to make a credible splash in artificial intelligence. Much of Apple Intelligence is on the come, and you’ll need a newer iPhone to get the features, but as usual Apple managed to make an ...
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Jensanity! Nvidia valuation tops $3T — until regulators and naysayers weigh in

Have we reached peak AI? This was a week in which CEO Jensen Huang’s Nvidia hit $3 trillion in market capitalization, only to fall back below that mark on reports of an antitrust probe by the Justice Department. Easy come, easy go. Meantime, some people are questioning if generative AI will catch on quickly enough to justify all ...