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Truckload Pricing Power? Diesel Is Eating It Up

Truckload rates are up, but carrier profits still aren’t following. JB Hunt, Werner and Heartland earnings all point to the same freight market story: pricing power is back, but diesel, driver and insurance costs are eating the gains. In th

Nearly $1M in Pokémon Cards STOLEN from FedEx

A FedEx truck carrying nearly $1 million in Pokémon and sports cards was robbed in California. FreightWaves’ Phil Brink and Highway’s Brennan Bailey break down how this audacious cargo theft happened and what it means for supply chain secur

Broad access through consistent standards

How OpenAI works with distribution partners to uphold consistent safeguards, support responsible access, and clarify expectations in our Usage Policies.

Kohl’s leans into clearer pricing, gift bundles and Uber Eats for the holidays

Kohl's is emphasizing deeper discounts and delivery capabilities in its pitch to cash-strapped shoppers this holiday season.

BitGo Helps Kalshi Traders Leverage Crypto Without Exiting Holdings

Kalshi and BitGo Holdings have partnered to enable some Kalshi clients to use eligible cryptocurrencies to post collateral for leveraged perpetual futures trades, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Oct. 21). Under this collaboration, customers o

The Heartbeat of the American Supply Chain

Trucking shouldn’t just offer somebody a seat. It should offer them a future, better skills, better opportunities, and more money and choices. That was the premise Werner Enterprises Senior Director of Driver Recruiting Ben Pile brought to

The ‘Always Out Generation’ – Young adults away from home most of the week

New research from InPost UK reveals a growing disconnect between the way young adults live and the way parcels are delivered. Almost half of 18–30-year-olds surveyed are away from home during traditional 9am–5pm delivery hours at least four

Train Qwen3 on AWS Trainium with torchtitan

Train Qwen3 on AWS Trainium with torchtitan three ways on a single trn2.48xlarge: the Hugging Face Transformers v5 modeling backend, torchtitan's native Qwen3, and NKI mixture-of-experts kernels. The same torchrun launcher and config struct

ServiceNow Announces New AI Agent Services With Nvidia

Enterprise software platform ServiceNow has launched an agentic-AI-focused expansion of its partnership with Nvidia. The new updates are “designed to bring governance and security across every layer of AI agent execution,” the company said

Legora Hits $8.8 Billion Valuation as Legal Professionals Deploy AI Agents

Legora raised $550 million in a Series E funding round to support the expansion of its agentic operating system for legal professionals, Legora aOS, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) blog post. The round valued Legora at $8.8 billio

Pennsylvania county becomes first in nation to pass paid parental leave

Allegheny County’s policy also applies to remote employees whose employers are based in other states.

Nearly $82M government grant targets rural job training

The U.S. Department of Labor said the initiative is designed to “address the critical workforce needs of employers in high-growth and emerging industries” in the region.

Klarna and FreshBooks Team to Bring BNPL to Small Businesses

Pay-later provider Klarna launched a new partnership with small business management software company FreshBooks, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 21) news release. The collaboration is designed to bring Klarna’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) paym

DSV’s Q3 air volumes hit by weak Europe and reduced Asia-Europe e-commerce

DSV’s airfreight business faced third quarter challenges including weak activity in Europe and reduced Asia Pacific-Europe e-commerce demand. Airfreight volumes fell by 3% to 560,890 tonnes in the third quarter compared to the third quarter

OpenAI Mobilizes Tech Firms to Fix Widespread Web Vulnerability

OpenAI led an effort over the past two months to fix “one of the most impactful security issues in recent memory,” the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) blog post. The targets of this effort were critical vulnerabilities in PHP, an open

2026 Air Cargo News Award winners revealed!

The 2026 Air Cargo News Awards – the 42nd edition – celebrated innovation and excellence in the air cargo industry, with winners across 10 categories. More than 200 people attended this year’s awards at the 5-star Royal Lancaster London hot

Anthropic Accounting Charge Drives 80% Net Loss

Anthropic’s net loss jumped significantly to $80.7 billion in the first half of 2026, largely due to an accounting charge. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Oct. 20) by Reuters, which viewed a draft prospectus for the company’s planned

NVIDIA Kumo Relational Outperforms Supervised Machine Learning on Relational Data, No Training Required

TQL’s RICO response: rips carriers’ ‘poor business practices’

The first response in the RICO case initiated by a group of carriers against giant 3PLs C.H. Robinson and TQL has been filed by the latter, and it has two key arguments. TQL, in a series of three individual motions filed Monday in the U.S.

Freightos founder takes board fight to shareholder vote

Freightos’ board has agreed to put founder Zvi Schreiber’s proposals to a vote at its December annual meeting, escalating a dispute over the company’s focus on software over its booking platform. Schreiber, who resigned from the board in Fe

OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads to 26 New Countries

OpenAI says it is expanding the reach of its ChatGPT Ads to 26 new countries. The expansion brings the advertising offering to 80 countries around the world, and comes as more than 100,000 advertisers have run campaigns on ChatGPT, the arti

Train in Simulation, Deploy on a Real Robot: Microduck with Isaac Lab 3.0

Hackers Employ Grok and Claude to Attack LatAm Banks

A hacking group known as CyberCartel reportedly used artificial intelligence (AI) agents from several high profile tech companies to automate cyberattacks on Latin American businesses. That’s according to a report Wednesday (Oct. 21) from T

Parts Town Unlimited names new CIO and chief accounting officer to leadership team

Equipment distributor Parts Town Unlimited named two new executives to its leadership team, including a chief information officer (CIO) to oversee its digital efforts. The CIO role will belong to Pat Quint. Meanwhile, Kristi Belhumeur is ta