ADT Inc. announced today that, via its commercial channel, it is investing in Percepta Labs, an artificial-intelligence technology startup out of Philadelphia. 

CPI Security Systems, SDM’s 2019 Dealer of the Year, filed a lawsuit on Sept. 11 against Vivint Smart Home, accusing the company of tricking customers into signing up for Vivint’s services by posing as CPI employees or representatives.

Google, OnStar, ADT, Priority Dispatch and Rave Mobile Safety are the most recent additions to RapidDeploy’s Unified Critical Response (UCR) ecosystem, which already has partnerships with AT&T, Microsoft, AT&T FirstNet and Esri, among others. 

ADT announced today it has joined the Zigbee Alliance and the Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP) working group. 

Company leaders say the partnership will combine Google Nest’s hardware and services with ADT’s installation, services and professional monitoring network to create a more robust smart home experience for customers.

ADT is facing two class action lawsuits after it was revealed that a Dallas, Texas-area service employee was spying on hundreds of customers over a period of seven years. 

ADT today announced a partnership with Instacart to provide its mobile safety solution, Safe by ADT, to the delivery company’s 500,000 shoppers through an in-app safety feature beginning this month. 

ADT announced today it is providing $1 million through its ADT Always Cares program to support more than 100 nonprofit organizations in 44 states and Puerto Rico affected by COVID-19. 

NAD is an investigative unit of the advertising industry’s system of self-regulation and is a division of the Better Business Bureau National Programs’ self-regulatory and dispute resolution programs.

Approximately 88 percent (about 4,300) of ADT employees are now working safely at home. Normally, a move of this magnitude would take months; ADT did it in three weeks.