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Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers


Scale is clearly concerned enough about the threat of Mercor, and the poaching of one of its employees, to pursue legal action

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. Eugene informed us that he had old documents in a personal Google Drive, which we have never accessed and are now investigating,” Midha told TechCrunch in an emailed statement. Scale wanted Mercor to give it a full list of the files in the drive, and to prevent Ling from working with Customer A.

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