News Summary

• Scale AI, which helps tech companies prepare data to train their AI models, filed a lawsuit against one of its former sales employees and its rival Mercor.
• The suit claims the employee, who was hired by Mercor, “stole more than 100 confidential documents concerning Scale’s customer strategies and other proprietary information,” according to a copy seen by TechCrunch.
• Mercor co-founder Surya Midha denies that his company used any data from Scale, although he admits that Ling may have been in possession of some.