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The #MobilityDB team just announced v1.3.0-alpha featuring
New temporal types:
🆕 tgeometry & tgeography that can represent the temporal evolution of any geometry type (polygon, multipoint, etc.)
🆕 temporal circular buffer (tcbuffer)
🆕 temporal pose (tpose) type, storing the evolution of a pose
(point position orientation)
and more ...

Release MobilityDB v1.3.0-alpha · MobilityDB/MobilityDB
This is the alpha release for MobilityDB 1.3. Major changes w.r.t. 1.2 New temporal types: New temporal geometry tgeometry and temporal geography tgeography types, which can represent the temporal...

Sources: OpenAI plans to spend ~$100B on backup servers from cloud providers through 2030, in addition to the $350B already projected for server rentals (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-spend-100-bil…

OpenAI to Spend $100 Billion on Backup Servers for AI Breakthroughs
When OpenAI in March released ChatGPT features that could turn photos into animated characters, a spike in usage forced the company to put temporary limits on the features. It wasn’t the first time this had happened. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told investors at a Goldman Sachs ...

STPFormer: A State-of-the-Art Pattern-Aware Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Traffic Forecasting
Jiayu Fang, Zhiqi Shao, S T Boris Choy, Junbin Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13433

STPFormer: A State-of-the-Art Pattern-Aware Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Traffic Forecasting
Spatio-temporal traffic forecasting is challenging due to complex temporal patterns, dynamic spatial structures, and diverse input formats. Although Transformer-based models offer strong global modeling, they often struggle with rigid temporal encoding and weak space-time fusion. We propose STPFormer, a Spatio-Temporal Pattern-Aware Transformer that achieves state-of-the-art performance via unified and interpretable representation learning. It integrates four modules: Temporal Position Aggregat…

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Perplexity struggles to scale its shopping and ad businesses nearly a year after launching ad sales and in-app purchasing, frustrating marketers and merchants (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/perplexitys-commerce-ads-experim…

Perplexity’s Commerce and Ads Experiments Are Stuck in Neutral
Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm at $20 billion—and its penchant for declaring big-ticket acquisition targets like TikTok. But its efforts to build businesses in online shopping and ...

Sources: OpenAI is recruiting from Apple's design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams, as it targets late 2026 or early 2027 for its first devices (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-raids-apple-hardware-ta…

OpenAI Raids Apple for Hardware Talent, Manufacturing Partners
As OpenAI’s plans to make devices infused with its artificial intelligence get closer to reality, the company is increasingly plucking talent from Silicon Valley’s most successful device maker: Apple. In recent months, the startup behind ChatGPT has been raiding the ranks of Apple’s design, ...

Sources: Apple told at least two suppliers to boost their daily output of entry-level iPhone 17 by at least 30%, after strong pre-orders last weekend (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-rushes-boost-production-cheaper-iphone…

Apple Rushes to Boost Production of Cheaper iPhone 17
Apple is rushing to boost production of its newly released entry-level model iPhone 17 after strong pre-orders last weekend. The tech giant told at least two suppliers to boost their daily output of the standard model by at least 30%, according to people familiar with the matter. The shift ...

Sources: after Trump let Nvidia resume H20 chip sales to China, Nvidia told Chinese customers it has limited stocks and doesn't plan to restart production (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidias-china-restart-f…

Nvidia’s China Restart Faces Production Obstacles
President Donald Trump’s recent decision allowing Nvidia to resume sales of the H20 artificial intelligence chips to China sent its Chinese customers—mostly big tech firms like ByteDance and Alibaba—into a frenzy to snap up chips before the U.S. administration changes its mind again. Nvidia’s ...

Sources: Character.AI has recently discussed a sale with potential buyers and also talked with investors about raising a few hundred million at a $1B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/character-ai-talks-sell-…

Character.AI in Talks to Sell or Raise Money, a Year After Founders Depart
Character.AI, the chatbot maker whose founders Google hired as part of a $2.7 billion deal last August, has in recent weeks discussed a sale of the company with potential buyers, bankers and staff, according to three people who have spoken to its executives. The nearly four-year-old startup ...

Source: Pylon, which uses AI to automate B2B customer service, raised $31M led by a16z and Bain Capital at a valuation in the hundreds of millions of dollars (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/andreessen-…

Why Andreessen and Bain Backed a Self-Described ‘Zendesk Killer’
Automating customer service has been among the most popular applications of artificial intelligence models, and investors have pumped about $1 billion into six key startups developing them. Now, a seventh is throwing its hat into the ring.San Francisco-based startup Pylon has raised $31 million ...