Freehand Raises $75M to Put AI Agents in Charge of Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend

Every large enterprise runs on a paradox. The most consequential financial machinery in the company, the system that decides which invoices get paid, which contracts get enforced, and which suppliers get renegotiated, is also its least modernized. American companies spend more than $20 trillion a year on the raw materials, logistics, data centers and services … Read more

xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law

xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets “nudification” apps, claiming that the statute’s punitive provisions leave the company with “no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine’s image-editing features in various ways.” The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment. Back in January, … Read more

Xbox revenue drops 10 percent as Microsoft’s cloud and AI business surges

Xbox is having yet another tough quarter, as revenue from content and services like its Game Pass subscription dipped 10 percent over the past few months. At the same time, Xbox hardware sales declined 13 percent, according to Microsoft’s fourth-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday. The news comes just weeks after Xbox head Asha Sharma … Read more

261 Blog Posts To Learn About Engineering Management

Let’s learn about Engineering Management via these 261 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Engineering management is the discipline of combining engineering skills with management principles to lead technical teams and projects. It is … Read more

The US government just banned Roombas

When the Trump administration announced yesterday that it was banning “advanced robotic devices” from entering the United States, the headlines were all about humanoids. But spying doesn’t require legs – and neither does the FCC’s robot ban. The robot ban will sweep up robot vacuum cleaners too, FCC media relations director Katie Gorscak confirms to … Read more

Your Marketing Models Can Predict Everything Except What Happens When You Act

I am responsible for marketing analytics at a Series C fintech, and here is a rather embarrassing admission: our industry tends to produce models which are very good at answering questions nobody asked, while being structurally unable to address the single question everyone asks. This question is something along the lines of “what happens if … Read more