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.
Scope3 Media Reporting has raised $25 million in new funding to support its mission to measure media and advertising carbon emissions and suggest optimizations that will reduce them. Brands that use Scope3 to reduce their emissions include Coca-Cola, General Motors and Mastercard. It now plans to address the growing threat of emissions caused by the use of AI.