The acquisition of Peace of Mind Technology (POMT) marks Convergint’s entry into the Australian audio-visual market and expands its service capabilities in the market. With POMT, Convergint adds capability to integrate security, AV, and workplace technologies.
Sydney-based Applejack Hospitality sponsored a competition to create an AI-inspired restaurant, and the winning concept, entered by Stefanie Wee from Perth, was turned into a pop-up at the RAFI restaurant in North Sydney. Named Luminary and created with the help of ChatGPT and Canva AI, the concept blended the themes of earth, air, fire and water into a multisensory experience.
Simon Data hilariously styles itself “the first connected CDP”, implying that other CDPs are not connected to anything. Marketing silliness aside, their point is they read data from a cloud data warehouse rather than building a dedicated CDP data store. They just raised a $54 million Series D, bringing total funding to $115.8 million.
Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content. But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines. Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results. We’ll see if competitors do the same.