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NVIDIA Cosmos3-H-Dreams: Bringing Clinical Surgery to Life Through Generative Simulation

Mural Raises $15 Million to Help Companies Scale Agentic Finance

Financial infrastructure company Mural said it has raised $15 million in new funding. The Series A financing round will support the firm’s global expansion and investments in the regulatory and payments infrastructure needed to scale agenti

Governments Urged to Plan for Breaches That Defenses Cannot Stop

State and local governments need to prepare for attackers getting inside their networks, with cybersecurity protocols that contain intrusions before they disrupt water systems, transportation, benefits payments and other essential services.

Workflow context for AI agents with Smartsheet MCP on AWS

The Smartsheet Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server lets AI agents read, update, and act on live data. This post shows two ways to connect it on AWS: Amazon Quick for business teams and Kiro for developers, so your agents can work with Smart

Work management context for AI agents with Smartsheet MCP on AWS

The Smartsheet Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server lets AI agents read, update, and act on live work management data. This post shows two ways to connect it on AWS: Amazon Quick for business teams and Kiro for developers, so your agents can

Reefer Truckload Rejections Soar: 1 in 5 Loads Rejected Nationally

The freight market is seeing fluctuating volumes and steady tender rejections, with a particular spotlight on the refrigerated sector. Learn why 1 in 5 reefer loads are being rejected nationally, and how rising diesel costs and fall harvest

Bot Auto’s Secret to an Affordable Future

Bot Auto’s President & COO, Brett Suma, explains how their unique foundational model and advanced software, developed by an AI-first team, slashed the cost of autonomous driving systems to just $50,000 per truck. This capital-efficient appr

Diesel Prices: Up, Down, or Stuck?

FreightWaves editor-at-large John Kingston breaks down the latest diesel price trends and the bombshell $700M nuclear verdict against CH Robinson. Discover what this ruling means for freight brokers and the entire trucking industry, plus in

From data to decisions: Conversational supply chain intelligence with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Enterprise supply chains are data-rich but insight-poor, with the data to decide scattered across ERP, monitoring, procurement, and email. This post shows how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore exposes those systems as a governed tool layer, and how

Wildfire and Badge bring merchant rewards into Apple, Google and Samsung wallets

The loyalty platform Wildfire Systems and mobile wallet infrastructure provider Badge are partnering to push merchant offers and cashback rewards to more shoppers through popular payment methods. The companies announced their partnership at

Fine-tuning GPT-OSS-20B for multilingual reasoning on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

Learn how we fine-tuned GPT-OSS-20B for multilingual reasoning on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, and how to decide between supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with GRPO. SFT took reasoning-language accuracy from 22% to 100%,

Robot Arms Finally Crack the Meal Assembly Line

For a long time, robots made little economic sense for food manufacturers juggling many recipes, each with its own mix of ingredients. Chef Robotics, a San Francisco startup that sells artificial intelligence (AI)-guided robot arms to food

How Octave built a secure multi-tenant AI foundation on Amazon Bedrock

Octave built a secure, multi-tenant AI foundation on Amazon Bedrock, using Cohere Embed v4 for embeddings and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for isolated agent execution, to power a Complaint Triage Assistant that searches 2 billion regulated doc

The Decision Bottleneck Is Becoming a Logistics Capacity Constraint

Decision speed matters because logistics capacity can be constrained by queues of unresolved choices just as surely as by a shortage of trucks, doors, labor, or inventory. The important mechanism is the decision bottleneck: work waits while

Hasbro Hopes for Happy Holiday Season as Revenue Rises 15%

Hasbro saw 15% year-over-year revenue growth in the third quarter, fueled by its Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming segment, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 20) earnings press release. “Despite all of the macro noise in the quarter, we st

Equifax Data Shows Mortgage Volume Slump While Consumer Financial Health Stays Strong

The U.S. mortgage market has “weakened meaningfully” since July, though the rest of the U.S. market remains as healthy as it was, Equifax Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer John Gamble said Tuesday (Oct. 20) during an earn

USPS highlights direct mail strategies at ANA Masters of Marketing Conference

USPS shipping announcement. Verify original service availability, deadlines and applicable mail classes.

Time-definite ocean delivery? Container ship completes new Arctic route trial

South Korea’s Arctic shipping trial demonstrated a faster Europe route, but commercial viability remains uncertain. The post Time-definite ocean delivery? Container ship completes new Arctic route trial appeared first on FreightWaves.

US semiconductor supply chain relies on vulnerable, hidden inputs

To guard against disruptions, the Semiconductor Industry Association called for closer government-industry collaboration to address targets for onshoring and stockpiling.

Access OpenAI GPT models on Amazon Bedrock from Canada with cross-Region inference

Canadian organizations can now access OpenAI GPT-5.6, GPT-6, and GPT-6.1 models on Amazon Bedrock from the Canada (Central) and Canada West (Calgary) Regions using cross-Region inference. This post covers the models and inference profiles,

Heartland Express sees earnings turnaround in Q3

For the first time since 2023, truckload carrier Heartland Express achieved a net profit that was not driven by large gains from selling equipment and terminals. The post Heartland Express sees earnings turnaround in Q3 appeared first on Fr

World’s first ammonia-powered dry bulk ship completes sea trials

Completion of sea trials marks a milestone in commercial deploying of alternative fuels for ocean shipping. The post World’s first ammonia-powered dry bulk ship completes sea trials appeared first on FreightWaves.

Microsoft opens a hands-on STEM and AI hub for students at its Grange Castle data center campus

The post Microsoft opens a hands-on STEM and AI hub for students at its Grange Castle data center campus appeared first on Source.

Walmart enlists Sam’s Club in latest challenge to Amazon Prime

The retail giant has bundled its Walmart+ and Sam’s Club Plus memberships for a savings of nearly $100, which could appeal to stressed-out consumers.