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Freight management startup GoodShip has raised $25 million in Series B funding. The company seeks to use AI to overhaul the trillion-dollar shipping industry.The round was led by Greenfield Partners and featured participation from returning backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Ironspring Ventures, Chicago Ventures, and FUSE VC.Three-year-old GoodShip, based in Bellevue, Washington, has raised $40.4 million across four funding rounds, CEO Ryan Soskin told Business Insider.Cofounded by Convoy alums Soskin and CTO David Tsai, GoodShip is an operating system to help clients buy and manage their freight.The platform unifies a company’s internal data using AI to track its shipping networks and…

When Bill Dally joined Nvidia’s research lab in 2009, it employed only about a dozen people and was focused on ray tracing, a rendering technique used in computer graphics. That once-small research lab now employs more than 400 people, who have helped transform Nvidia from a video game GPU startup in the nineties to a $4 trillion-dollar company fueling the artificial intelligence boom.Now, the company’s research lab has its sights set on developing the tech needed to power robotics and AI. And some of that lab work is already showing up in products. The company unveiled Monday a new set…

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Browns All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett has been accused of driving a Ferrari 100 mph on a suburban Cleveland interstate.The Strongsville Police Department stopped Garrett just after 2 a.m. Saturday in a 60 mph zone on Interstate 71 near the Ohio Turnpike, according to a citation.Garrett is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday but he could pay a $250 fine without appearing. Garrett is expected to be with the Browns in Philadelphia for a joint workout with the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles.Garrett was stopped less than an hour after the Browns landed at Hopkins…

From making doctor’s appointments to managing insurance to getting lab work done, taking care of your health can feel like a full-time job.Though it can take time and effort, being one step ahead when it comes to your own health can make a huge difference in longevity and well-being, according to ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Tara Narula.Narula, a board-certified cardiologist, said she likes to encourage patients to be the so-called “CEO of their own health,” meaning they know every detail of their health care and can make informed decisions alongside their medical providers.Read below for Narula’s checklist on…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s government said Tuesday it plans to open nine drone training centers over the next three years to teach thousands of people, including schoolchildren, skills in flying and building the machines.Drones have become increasingly common in everyday life and warfare in recent years. Lithuania’s project aims to strengthen the public’s abilities in drone control and engineering and “expand civil resistance training,” its defense and education ministries said in a statement. Lithuania, a NATO member country of about 2.8 million people on the alliance’s eastern flank, borders both Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave and Moscow-allied Belarus, and is aware…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Desperate parents begged law enforcement officers to storm an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in the frantic minutes after a gunman opened fire in one of the deadliest classroom attacks in U.S. history, police body camera video released Tuesday shows.“Whose class is he in?” one parent can be heard asking. Another comes up and yells, “Come on man, my daughter is in there!” The heartbreaking videos show the agonizingly slow law enforcement response along with confusion and delays. Authorities failed to confront 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos for more than an hour after the attack at Robb…

The iPhone catapulted Apple onto the Mount Rushmore of tech, and the device’s successor could do the same for someone else.Smartphones as we know them will eventually feel “primitive,” billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said in a new interview on the “TBPN” technology podcast that aired Friday. At some point, he said, everything becomes obsolete.The big question: What comes after the smartphone?”Whoever cracks the code on that will be the next Apple,” Andreessen, cofounder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said.Creating a product that makes the smartphone obsolete will require a level of innovation that the world has yet to…

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills running back James Cook resumed practicing on Tuesday, ending — temporarily, at least — his “hold-in” as part of a contract standoff that began on Aug. 3.Cook took the field in uniform and participated at the start of practice after missing four straight sessions last week — the last two in which the fourth-year player failed to even make an appearance on the sideline.Speaking before practice, coach Sean McDermott anticipated Cook’s return based on conversations he had with the running back.“Things have changed and yes, I’ve had a conversation with James, and the…

Hours after Paramount and UFC announced a billion-dollar rights deal, Dana White said he had yet to hear from his friend, President Donald Trump, on his thoughts about the fight company’s new streaming home.That was fine with White. The UFC CEO was set to travel to Washington on Aug. 28 to meet with Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, to catch up and discuss logistics on the proposed Fourth of July fight card next year at the White House.Trump said last month he wanted to stage a UFC match on the White House grounds with upwards of 20,000 spectators to celebrate…

When it comes to AI, Sam Altman says the kids will be all right.Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said he’s more worried about how older employees will adapt to AI changing the workplace than college graduates. His view contrasts with how many of his competitors and others in tech think about the next five years.”I’m more worried about what it means not for the 22-year-old, but for the 62-year-old that doesn’t want to go retrain or rescale or whatever the politicians call it that no one actually wants,” Altman said recently on Cleo Abram’s “Huge Conversations” YouTube show.Altman said jobs…