The Information hires Palazzolo to cover artificial intelligence

The Information executive editor Amir Efrati sent out the following to the staff:

Informationists,

Please welcome Stephanie Palazzolo, the newest member of our reporting team. She will helm a newsletter on artificial intelligence, giving readers the most important information about how AI is changing industries, boosting some companies and maiming others, and upsetting the power balance in the technology sector.

Steph joins The Information from Insider, where she pioneered its coverage of a new crop of AI startups developing large-language models and text-to-video software. In a few short months, she published multiple scoops on Sequoia Capital’s lurch toward those startups and how AI PhD enrollment has fallen at some well-known schools because the companies are hiring so many computer science graduates. She previously reported stories about Amazon’s M&A machine and how cloud providers such as Google and Microsoft are increasingly funding their own customers (derogatively known as round-tripping).

Steph is a former tech banker at Morgan Stanley, where she spent two years helping the firm land initial public offerings and working on the offering documents themselves. It’s safe to say she knows how to get up to speed on emerging industries.

She is a native of College Station, Texas, and received an economics degree from the University of Chicago.

Steph will be based in New York, but don’t fret, SF. She has plenty of reasons to visit the left coast so you’ll see her too. She starts July 17.