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Waabi and Volvo Autonomous Solutions announce partnership

Toronto-based autonomous truck technology maker Waabi announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to jointly develop and deploy autonomous trucks. The partnership is twofold, combining Waabi’s innovations in generative AI with Volvo’s autonomous truck, the Volvo VNL Autonomous.

The vertical integration comes in the form of integrating Waabi’s virtual driver system, the Waabi Driver, into the Volvo autonomous truck, which has redundant systems for safe autonomous...

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Tenstreet rolls out suite of AI-powered features

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The logistics industry has been buzzing with excitement about the potential benefits of generative AI for years. Now, some of the most innovative companies in the space are deploying AI-powered solutions in full force, turning that potential into reality.

Earlier this year, Tenstreet unveiled 35 innovative features at its annual user conference. One of the company’s newest solutions, Pulse+, uses generative AI to make communication more efficient and strengthen human connections. 

“Pulse+...

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Transfix, recently out of the brokerage business, offering its first software solution 

Transitions can take a long time for any company, but Jonathan Salama, CEO and co-founder of Transfix, said that moving from being a digital brokerage to a supplier of SaaS solutions is a path made easier by the fact that Transfix was always building and improving the broker-focused technology it was going to need for its own operations. 

“It was a lot faster for us because we already had the right building blocks,” Salama said in an interview with FreightWaves. 

The Transfix transformation has...

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From pandemic chaos to AI, supply chain panelists have seen it all lately

NEW YORK — Think about what a supply chain leader has gone through in the past few years.

There was the pandemic that at first looked like it would crater demand for virtually all goods and services once the toilet paper rush ran its course.

Then came the whiplash in no time when huge demand for goods replaced demand for services that couldn’t be provided during lockdowns, and the transport and supply of those products failed to keep up. The end result: Old ways of doing business in the supply...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/from-pandemic-chaos-to-ai-supply-chain-panelists-have-seen-it-all-lately

Generative AI can be ‘quite powerful’ in supply chain 

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit on Wednesday. 

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Where generative AI fits in the supply chain.

DETAILS: Generative AI can revolutionize the supply chain industry through fraud protection, route optimization and efficiency enhancements, according to Crowley Maritime’s Anoop Mohandas. 

SPEAKER: Mohandas is a product manager at Crowley Maritime. 

KEY QUOTES FROM MOHANDAS:

“Generative AI is this new technology that’s based on largely large...

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Waabi signs 10-year autonomous trucking pact with Uber Freight

The contraction of autonomous trucking developers is leaving openings for new players like Waabi Innovation Inc., which has signed a 10-year deal to haul cargo on the Uber Freight network.

Toronto-based Waabi was founded in June 2021 by Raquel Urtasun. She formerly ran the Canadian office of Uber’s Autonomous Technology Group that was sold to Aurora Innovation in 2020. Waabi raised $83.5 million with investments from Aurora and Uber in a round led by Khosla Ventures in 2021. Volvo Group Venture...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/waabi-signs-10-year-autonomous-trucking-pact-with-uber-freight

Generative AI: How Business-Changing Solutions Like ChatGPT Could Be Used

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The game of artificial intelligence is evolving thanks to generative AI and other foundation models, which are also speeding up application development and giving non-technical people access to significant capabilities, as reported by McKinsey.

ChatGPT

In the spirit of this article’s topic, we asked ChatGPT—a generative AI language model that can create original content in response to a user prompt—how it would set the context. Our prompt to the system:

ChatGPT’s...

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