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British adventurer Karl Bushby has completed his 28-year journey to walk around the world, finishing at his mother's house in Hull. Known as the Goliath Expedition, the trek saw him cross the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska and traverse dozens of countries on foot. He began in 1998 and became one of the longest continuous walking expeditions ever attempted.

Traversal, a startup building autonomous site reliability engineering software, has raised $120 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation, giving it unicorn status. The company's technology aims to automate the work of keeping large-scale software systems running, a task that typically requires large teams of on-call engineers. The round underscores continued investor appetite for AI agents applied to infrastructure and operations work.

New York startup Traversal has raised $120 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $1 billion. Its AI agents diagnose why corporate software breaks by reading telemetry, code and logs. Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Khosla Ventures co-led the round, bringing Traversal's total funding to $173 million and placing it among the latest AI unicorns.

California's massive wildlife crossing over a freeway has recorded an unofficial first animal visitor ahead of its official opening, according to SFGATE. The crossing, designed to let wildlife safely traverse busy highways in the Los Angeles area, is not yet open, but monitoring apparently captured an animal using it early. The early use is being taken as a promising sign for the project's goal of reconnecting fragmented habitats.