Akash Pasricha

Newsletter publishers are having a moment again. Beehiiv, a four-year-old competitor to the larger and older Substack, is on pace to double its total revenue this year, to $30 million, CEO and co-founder Tyler Denk told my colleague Akash Pasricha on Tuesday during an interview on TITV, The ...

Creator economy investors are basically artificial intelligence investors these days. I took a look at second-quarter venture funding in our Creator Economy Database, and it’s clear that investors are looking beyond the now-common AI image- and video-generation tools to focus on a crop of ...

Early tries at developing artificial intelligence–powered devices and wearables have been marked by some notable flops, like Humane’s AI pin. But tech enthusiasts remain open-minded about buying an AI device. Among The Information’s readers, seven in 10 said they would purchase an AI-powered ...

This year has seen trickles of tech initial public offering activity, but there’s still a sizable list of IPO hopefuls whose public market ambitions have stalled. Bankers say that dynamic is encouraging more private companies to try to find a buyer instead. To that end, we updated our Tech IPO ...

Artificial intelligence agents that can carry out tasks like coding, customer service or scheduling with little human oversight are generating a lot of hype. Tech users are generally eager to try them out—and say they’re mostly happy with the results. Three in four of our readers have used an AI ...

One of the most exciting stories in tech lately is just four letters long: AI M&A.On Wednesday, Databricks said it was paying around $1 billion to buy Neon, a database software startup that can be used to develop AI agents. Then, on Thursday, Salesforce said it was buying AI agent developer ...

Late on a Friday night in March, Bill McDermott, ServiceNow’s CEO and chairman, walked off a flight in San Jose, Calif., and then immediately asked his chief of staff to get his top sales and engineering execs on the phone. He had a task for them. McDermott had just spent a week in New York ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made headlines this week when he told reporters the artificial intelligence chips race between the U.S. and China is neck and neck. He was referring to Huawei Technologies’ progress on its own new AI processor.But it’s worth remembering that many startups in the U.S. are ...

Tech companies are rethinking their hiring and spending on key areas including software and marketing, amid fast-changing tariff policies and mounting recession fears. Meanwhile, many are hitting the pause button on capital projects, dealmaking and expanding in new markets. The Information’s ...

ServiceNow’s revenue rose 18.5% in the first quarter to $3.09 billion, the company said Wednesday, the second consecutive quarter topline growth has decelerated slightly. But the biggest part of ServiceNow’s business, software subscriptions, exceeded previous projections and the IT automation company slightly raised its subscription revenue forecast for the year. CFO Gina Mastantuono said in a