Global AI leaders gather in Dubai as the emirate expands its ambitions In this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief. Fortune · Oct 28
Why should Big Tech know what you’re working on? Scale AI accused of spying on AI trainers The European Centre for Digital Rights, known as Noyb, is filing complaints against San Francisco-based startup Scale AI over the way its training platform Outlier tracks its 900,000 workers. Euronews · Oct 27
A 44-minute call and a memo: How Alexandr Wang won Mark Zuckerberg’s trust—and a $100 billion-plus AI bet Meta’s CEO and his 29-year-old chief AI officer revealed on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s podcast how one phone call became Meta Superintelligence Labs, and why the company’s CFO warned that failure would be “very, very bad in financial terms.” Fortune · Oct 17
Scale AI and Passes founder Lucy Guo says AI is making people work harder, not less: ‘I worked a 26-hour day’ Guo was the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire before being surpassed by Kalshi cofounder Luana Lopes Lara. Fortune · Sep 19
Scale AI taps former Google Cloud executive as CEO Scale AI appointed Francis DeSouza as chief executive officer, effective August 10. DeSouza brings over thirty years of enterprise technology experience to the AI company. He previously led Google Cloud's security products and served as Illumina's CEO. Scale AI recently added BP and Mayo Clinic as new enterprise customers. The… The Economic Times · Jul 30
Meta's Cred deal showcases new playbook: take stake, hire the founder Meta is strategically acquiring minority stakes in tech firms and integrating their founders into senior roles, a pattern evident with Cred and Scale AI. This "acquihire" approach allows Meta to rapidly gain specialised talent and influence, bypassing lengthy onboarding processes and regulatory hurdles of full acquisitions. While founders benefit financially… The Economic Times · Jun 23
Meta AI chief sees opportunity in models’ giving health advice The 29-year-old founder of data-labeling startup Scale AI joined Meta after Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg overhauled his company’s AI efforts, including through a $14 billion investment in Scale that was widely viewed as a bid to recruit Wang. The Economic Times · Jun 5
Million-dollar salaries, billion-dollar stakes: Top AI talent every tech giant is fighting over As Big Tech and a whole cohort of new-generation AI start-ups race towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), elite researchers and engineering leaders have become the equivalent of franchise athletes. Euronews · May 19
Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for AI firm part-owned by Meta Scale AI gig workers describe desperation of using people’s personal profiles and copyrighted work to train AI The Guardian - UK · Apr 7
Venture dollars to female founders doubled to a record $73 billion last year—but Anthropic and Scale AI skewed the data Two-thirds of every U.S. venture dollar going to female-founded startups last year flowed into AI, Pitchbook finds Fortune · Mar 6
Billionaire bosses like Jeff Bezos and Reid Hoffman denounce work-life balance—and some think working nonstop is key to success Jeff Bezos, founder of retail giant Amazon, which just topped the Fortune 500, is dismissive of the word “balance”—and he’s not alone. Fortune · Feb 20
Kleiner Perkins’s Leigh Marie Braswell learned about risk from playing poker: “If the odds are in your favor, you push your chips to the center” She was an early employee at Alexandr Wang’s Scale AI. Now, she’s writing checks to some of the buzziest AI startups around. Fortune · Feb 4
10 Fast-Growing Tech Companies to Watch in 2026 Major AI and technology organizations—from Nvidia to OpenAI—are widely recognized well beyond traditional tech circles. At the same time, a growing number of fast-scaling tech firms and startups are beginning to make headlines. International Business Times · Jan 12
Former Chief AI Scientist calls Meta's Alexandr Wang "young and inexperienced" — "You certainly don't tell a researcher like me what to do." Yann LeCun recently revealed details leading up to his abrupt exit from Meta, citing manipulated Llama 4 model benchmark test results, a strained relationship with Mark Zuckerberg, and more. Windows Central · Jan 7
The Fashion Central · Jan 1 Inside the relentless life of Lucy Guo, the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire Lucy Guo logs onto Zoom exactly on time. Not early. Not late. Precision matters when your calendar belongs to one of the world’s busiest entrepreneurs.
International Business Times UK · Dec 8, 2025 Who Is Alexandr Wang? The 28-Year-Old Scale AI Founder Tapped by Zuckerberg in a $14.3B Move Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old founder of Scale AI, has been thrust into the global spotlight after Mark Zuckerberg tapped him for a major $14.3 billion AI initiative. The partnership cements Wang as one of tech's youngest power players.
Benzinga · Dec 6, 2025 This Startup With 60% Employees On The Autism Spectrum Beat Meta-Backed $14B Scale AI For $708 Million Pentagon AI Contract Artificial intelligence company Enabled Intelligence, with a majority neurodiverse workforce, announced on Nov. 24 that it has secured the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s largest data labeling contract.
Benzinga · Nov 23, 2025 Mercor CEO Brendan Foody Calls It 'A New Category Of Work' As His $10 Billion Company Pays Humans Over $1.5 Million A Day To Train AI Mercor is paying more than $1.5 million a day to people training artificial intelligence systems.
Benzinga · Nov 14, 2025 AI Spending Is Shifting — And Broadcom, Marvell Are Positioned To Win AI datacenters are quietly entering a new phase, and it could reshape which companies benefit most from the next wave of spending. That's according to Sri Kanajan, a data scientist at Scale AI and former senior data scientist at Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), who joined a JPMorgan-hosted call to break…
Benzinga · Nov 11, 2025 Not a 'Zombie Company': Scale AI's CFO Says People 'Mischaracterize' Deal That Sparked Founder Joining Meta, Boasts Misunderstood Trajectory The artificial intelligence industry was sent into a tailspin in June when Meta announced a staggering $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI. The deal, widely seen as an elaborate scheme to hire the startup’s founder Alexandr Wang and key personnel, CNBC reported, left observers questioning whether the company could survive.
Benzinga · Nov 10, 2025 Move Over Zuckerberg: Three 22-Year-Olds Just Became The Youngest Self-Made Billionaires In History — Thanks To An AI Hiring Startup Three 22-year-old high school friends are now the world's youngest self-made billionaires, according to Forbes. Their San Francisco-based artificial intelligence hiring startup, Mercor, recently raised $350 million in funding led by Felicis Ventures, valuing the company at $10 billion.
Fortune · Oct 15, 2025 Billionaire bosses like Jeff Bezos and Reid Hoffman denounce work-life balance—and some think working nonstop is key to success Jeff Bezos hates the word ‘balance’—and he’s not alone. Reid Hoffman says chasing it means you’re not serious about winning, while other billionaire CEOs argue it’s incompatible with success.
Plunged in Debt · Oct 7, 2025 9 Entrepreneurs from Non-Hollywood Backgrounds Who’re Worth More Than $20M Hollywood often dominates stories of wealth and fame, but some of the most inspiring fortunes come from people building quietly in other industries. These are self-made entrepreneurs who didn’t rely on glitzy media exposure or celebrity status. Instead, they scaled real businesses, solved practical problems, and amassed fortunes often exceeding…
Benzinga · Oct 6, 2025 Scale AI Co-Founder Alexandr Wang Says Even His $3.2 Billion Success Won't Matter Soon: 'Literally All The Code I've Written Will Be Produced By AI' Artificial intelligence could soon replace even the work of top programmers, with models able to reproduce everything he has written within the next five years, Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang warned.
Fortune · Oct 3, 2025 Gen Z billionaire Alexandr Wang tells 13-year-olds they should be more like Bill Gates, who snuck out of the house to code at night “When personal computers first came about, the people who spent the most time with it and grew up with it had this immense advantage in the future economy,” Wang said.