Idealab

From Ideas to Successful Companies.

[Gist @GetGistAI]

$300M in brand budget spent on World Cup sponsorships, and only one of these major brands shows up when fans ask AI about the tournament. ⚽️

[Idealab @Idealab]

X1 AI In-Place™ brings AI directly to enterprise data, enabling secure AI-powered analysis across distributed data sources without moving or copying sensitive information. #EnterpriseAI #eDiscovery #LegalTech @X1Discovery https://t.co/swzG0ySuGq

[Energy Vault @EnergyVaultInc]

Today we reported our Q1 2026 financial results. Some of our key results include significant progress in our MWs under management moving from 440MW to 1.1 GW (up 500% YoY), a backlog of $1.35 billion, up 108% year-over-year, and Q1 revenue growing 156% YoY. We've also completed the acquisition of the McMurtre BESS project in Texas, entered the Japanese market, and added 100MW of AI compute infrastructure projects. Lastly, Full year 2026 guidance has been reaffirmed.

We invite you to join our earnings call today at 430pm ET: https://t.co/KkUS1bUyMy

To read the full release, please visit: https://t.co/1u7mD65xf3
#EnergyStorage #Power #Energy #NRGV

[Gist @GetGistAI]

"Most brands have no idea whether ChatGPT recommends them, ignores them, or gets them wrong."

That's the problem Gist GEO was built to solve, and @themediacopilot did a great job unpacking it in their launch coverage this week. Thanks to Christopher Allbritton for the thoughtful read on AI's brand blind spot.

Full article: https://t.co/itITQDixZv

[Idealab @Idealab]

Today the team at @UseGistAI launched Gist GEO, a tool that helps marketers see how AI represents their brand and what to do about it. It joins Gist Ads and Gist Answers as part of a platform built for Brand Visibility in AI.

Be sure to follow along for the latest news.

[Gist @GetGistAI]

Gist GEO is here.

Know how AI sees your brand. Know what to do about it.

Free 14-day trial: https://t.co/aUwNQLgbG5

[Branch @branch]

Big news: Branch is now @stripe 's embedded digital wallet and debit card provider for worker payouts 📲💳

Platforms get a seamless way to deliver financial services to their workers. Workers get tools built to help them thrive. Learn more 👉 https://t.co/qTAv3JBaIs

[Idealab @Idealab]

Congratulations @atifsiddiqi!

[Atif Siddiqi @atifsiddiqi]

Big news: @branch is now the embedded digital wallet provider for worker payouts within @stripe 🚀 Branded digital wallets, debit cards, instant payouts — no pre-funding, minimal API lift. World-class financial infrastructure, built for the people who power the economy. Learn more 👉 https://t.co/sxscCGfSIO

[Bill Gross @Bill_Gross]

What was I thinking?

30 years ago this week I started a “1-year experiment” to build a startup factory based loosely on Thomas Edison’s laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

It was early 1996 and the Internet was growing like crazy after the Netscape IPO, with a whopping 30 million global users (which seems hysterically tiny now). But I felt that this was a disruptive event that with the potential for many new businesses. I wanted to make a lab where I could take my favorite 12 ideas, try one a month for a year, and see if we could make a go of dreaming up, starting, and growing companies.

After a year, 5 of those 12 had failed, 7 were able to get additional funding beyond the seed capital we provided, and eventually 5 of our earliest companies went public. We learned so many lessons living through the dot com boom and crash, the 2007 boom and 2008 crash, more recently the Cleantech boom and crash, and now the Ai boom. With a great deal of good timing, good luck and an amazing team of people I worked with over the years, we were able to start more than 150 companies in the last 30 years.

I believe that entrepreneurship unlocks human potential and provides so much personal growth. I love helping other entrepreneurs be successful, and hope to give back as much as I can from the joys and challenges of the last 30 years of Idealab (here is a link to my top lessons learned:
https://t.co/YGXdnfbbdn).

I am so grateful for the tens of thousands of people who came into our orbit to help make the dreams of each of our companies come true.

Thank you so much, and Happy Birthday, Idealab!
Sincerely, Bill

[Bill Gross @Bill_Gross]

I'll be speaking next week at the Abundance Summit about how to get the most out of AI. I will share my presentation afterwards and hope it's helpful..

[Idealab @Idealab]

@Bill_Gross will be speaking at #HumanX in San Francisco April 6-9 to discuss all things AI.

Register today for a significant discount: https://t.co/sKeGAULeaG

[Bill Gross @Bill_Gross]

I will be speaking at #HumanX #AI Conference @Prorata_ai @Idealab in April..

[Bill Gross @Bill_Gross]

If you use AI mainly to polish drafts, you’re missing its real power.

This short talk I just gave @DLDConference shows how to use AI as a thinking partner for hard problems — not just easy ones..

https://t.co/HG4dRyEhgc

[ProRata.ai @Prorata_ai]

Trust in AI starts with attribution.

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

The A.I. companies took our content in secret and used it to build businesses worth billions of dollars. Then they said it’s impossible to compensate us for the use of our work. @Bill_Gross recognized this as one of the great injustices of our time and decided to do something about it.

He left his job, started @Prorata_ai, figured out how to reverse engineer the outputs of an LLM, and devised a system for sharing revenue. It could finally establish a fair exchange of value between A.I. companies and creators.

Bill and I dove deep on payment and attribution in the age of A.I. Listen to our full chat here: https://t.co/dJ3aKO9frV

Produced by @atlanticrethink, The Atlantic's creative marketing studio, in collaboration with @PwC.

[X1 @X1Discovery]

#EnterpriseAI success isn’t about the model, it’s about the architecture. New blog by John @Patzakis & Chas Meier @X1Discovery : Why multi-tenant SaaS creates governance, performance & data-movement risks for legal & compliance.
➡️ And how AI-in-Place fixes it.
https://t.co/ILRpD1wsMz
#LegalTech

[Idealab @Idealab]

Great insight from @Bill_Gross and @nxthompson.

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

My read on how A.I. companies view revenue sharing with publishers:
- Some just want our businesses to die.
- Some don’t want the hassle of dealing with us.
- Some want to pay us, but they don’t want to be the only ones.

We need to find a way to get all of them on board. It wouldn’t just be the right thing to do—it would be good business.

YouTube did this years ago. The platform is now worth half a trillion dollars.

I had a riveting chat with @Bill_Gross about how to fix A.I.’s fairness problem. Listen to our full convo here: https://t.co/dJ3aKO9frV

Produced by @atlanticrethink, The Atlantic's creative marketing studio, in collaboration with @PwC.

[Energy Vault @EnergyVaultInc]

Energy Vault is proud to be hosting our community event at the Snyder, Texas project site, bringing neighbors together to see the Cross Trails Resiliency Center (CTRC) and Solution Excellence Center (SEC) up close.

From the onsite solar farm to the CTRC battery energy storage system and the SEC gravity energy storage systems, we're sharing how these projects strengthen local grid infrastructure, and enabling the community to learn more about the technologies behind them. Most importantly, we have the chance to thank Snyder and Scurry County for the support they've shown us over the years.

We’re grateful to be part of this community and excited for what we’ll continue to build together

#EnergyVault #EnergyStorageProjects #EnergyStorage

[Idealab @Idealab]

.@X1Discovery, the global leader in index-in-place data discovery, announces a breakthrough in enterprise AI—bringing AI directly to the data, securely and in-place, without the need to move or copy sensitive information. #AIinPlace #LegalTech #eDiscovery #Enterprise
https://t.co/tnIOvMPhSj

[X1 @X1Discovery]

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