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Dry Van Spot Rates Highest Since 2022 As Spring Tightens Capacity Submitted by FreightWaves, The freight market momentum is building at a rapid clip. National dry van spot rates — tracked via the SONAR National Truckload Index, the 7-day moving average of booked rates including fuel — have broken out to a new cycle high of $2.89 per mile. This represents the strongest level since 2022 and confirms the market’s shift toward carriers is gaining real traction. Even more telling: rates jumped $0.12 per mile in the past week alone. That’s a sharp...

Watch: Korean Humanoid Robot Performs Viral K-POP Dance, Learns By Watching Videos Authored by Jijo Malayil via Interesting Engineering, While China dominates humanoid robotics headlines, a Korean firm showcased a humanoid learning complex motions through an open-source AI framework. AI Sapiens enables a complete pipeline for imitation learning, covering data collection, training, and inference. ROBOTIS/YouTube In a recent demonstration, ROBOTIS' AI Sapiens learned the famous CORTIS REDRED Challenge motion using only smartphone video, eliminating the need for professional motion-capture systems. The process combined video-based motion capture, motion retargeting, simulation-based reinforcement learning, and Sim2Real transfer. According to...

Iranian Currency Hits All-Time Low As Tehran Threatens 'Unprecedented' Response To US 'Maritime Piracy' Via The Cradle Iran’s currency plummeted to a record low on Wednesday, dropping to 1.8 million against the dollar following the brutal US-Israeli war, coinciding with uncertainty over the fragile truce and rising energy prices worldwide.  The currency began a sharp descent two days ago after several weeks of artificial stability. During the initial weeks of the US-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic – which broke out on February 28 – the rial remained relatively steady, largely due to a total...