"Unified data" stopped being our pitch and became the industry's own headline this week. Parcel & Postal Technology International now frames the entire 2026 last-mile thesis as "how unified data will define last-mile excellence," NVIDIA shipped an open Physical AI Data Factory blueprint whose whole job is to unify and govern the real-world data that feeds embodied agents, and Ericsson's new Mobility Report describes autonomous agents being embedded across devices, vehicles and cities. The arms race has visibly moved off the device and the model and onto the data substrate — daXos's exact wedge, now spoken in buyers' and infra-giants' own words. Underneath, a consolidation wave (PE buying last-mile TMS, strategics rolling up telematics and routing assets) and fresh cargo-IoT funding (Ikin Global, FOSSA) signal capital concentrating around the same layer.