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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…

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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

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.

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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

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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

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

International Business Times UK

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

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

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…

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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

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.

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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.

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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…

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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

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.

Benzinga

Meta Wins EU Approval For AI Joint Venture With Reliance

The European Commission approved a joint venture between Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) and Reliance Industries Limited of India, under the EU Merger Regulation. The partnership will focus on enterprise artificial intelligence services.

International Business Times UK

Zuckerberg's AI Lab Has 'Few Seats on the Boat'—Who Gets In, and Why It's So Limited

Mark Zuckerberg outlines Meta's elite 'superintelligence' lab as a small, flat, deadline-free team pursuing AGI, reinforced by a major Scale AI deal that brings Alexandr Wang to Meta and ramps up top-tier recruiting.

Benzinga

Scale AI Rival Micro1 Hits $50M Revenue At Age 3 As 24-Year-Old CEO Ali Ansari Lands $35M From Twitter's Ex-Executives

Micro1 announced late last week that it secured a $35 million Series A round that valued the company at $500 million, with 24-year-old CEO Ali Ansari leading the startup. The funding was led by 01 Advisors, a venture capital firm co-founded by former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and former Twitter…

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Harvard Dropouts Behind Mercor Target $10 Billion Valuation As Startup Supplying OpenAI, Tesla And Nvidia Hits $450 Million Run Rate

Mercor, a startup connecting domain experts to technology giants like OpenAI, Meta (NASDAQ:META), and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), is in discussions with investors for a Series C round that could value the company at more than $10 billion, according to TechCrunch.

Benzinga

San Francisco Probes Scale AI Over Labor Practices After $14 Billion Meta Deal, Raising Questions On Gig Worker Rights In AI Boom: Report

San Francisco is investigating Scale AI's labor practices just months after Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) bought nearly half of the artificial intelligence startup in a $14 billion deal, casting new attention on how tech's fastest-growing firms treat the workers powering their models.

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