"Major Bay Area artificial intelligence company Scale AI which recently received a $14.3 billion investment from Meta claims in a lawsuit that a former employee jumped ship to a rival, stealing more than 100 confidential documents. Eugene Ling, while still employed as a manager at San Francisco's Scale, coordinated with its AI competitor Mercor.io to pilfer the proprietary material, the lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco U.S. District Court against Ling and Mercor, also headquartered in San Francisco."
"Ling, in an unusual move, took to social media platform X on Wednesday to address the legal action. Just heard I'm getting sued by Scale, Ling wrote. Last month, I left Scale to work at Mercor When Scale reached out about some files I had in my personal drive, I asked if I could just delete them. But Scale asked that I not do anything with them, so I'm still waiting for guidance on how to resolve this."
"Surya Midha, co-founder of Mercor, which runs an AI-powered recruitment and job-search platform, said Thursday that although his company has hired many people who have left Scale, we have no interest in any of Scale's trade secrets and in fact are intentionally running our business in a different way. Ling told Mercor that he had old documents in a personal Google Drive, which we have never accessed and are now investigating, Midha said."
Scale AI filed a lawsuit alleging former manager Eugene Ling downloaded more than 100 confidential documents and coordinated with rival Mercor.io to take proprietary material. The lawsuit states the documents amount to a roadmap for unfairly competing on particular customer projects. Ling posted on X that he left Scale for Mercor, had old files in a personal Google Drive, asked if he could delete them, and said he never used the files at his new job. Mercor's co-founder said the company has no interest in Scale's trade secrets, has not accessed Ling's personal drive, and offered to have Ling destroy the files while awaiting Scale's response.
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