Visibility platforms, TMS and customs software, the funding and consolidation behind them, and whether any of it changes what an operations team actually does at 6am.
The Extensiv acquisition follows Descartes' $100 million purchase of TMS provider Tai seven days earlier — bringing its acquisition spending to roughly $278 million across four deals since April.
The seventh-generation Kodiak Driver will lean on AMD's server-grade processors to aggregate LiDAR, camera and radar data — a hardware pairing that's new to autonomous trucking, even if the underlying chip isn't new to AMD.
Large Vehicle Routing brings height, weight and axle-count restrictions into Google's core routing engine — but it's a developer tool, not a standalone app.
Australia's regulator already found on the record that WiseTech holds substantial market power in logistics software — and 24 of the 25 largest freight forwarders run on it.
The hard part was never the robot arm — it was making a machine fit into destination planning, trailer assignment and shift rosters, and FedEx has now done that at production scale.
