Mercor’s 23-Year-Old Billionaire Founders Grapple With Employee Fraud And North Korean Infiltration

Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate earlier this year. Now it's confronting a wave of challenges, including an employee ...

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After LiteLLM-Linked Data Breach

Meta has paused work with Mercor after a LiteLLM-linked security breach, raising new concerns about AI vendor risk and ...

After data breach, $10B valued startup Mercor is having a month

After falling victim to a hacker, Mercor is facing lawsuits and reportedly losing big-name customers.
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AI startup Mercor faces mass litigation following data breach - report

In early April, extortion-hacker group Lapsus$ took credit for hacking Mercor, claiming to have stolen four terabytes of data. Following an extensive data breach, the billion-dollar artificial ...
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Inside how AI labs use Mercor for hidden data access

Artificial Intelligence (AI) labs, including some of the biggest names in the industry, are increasingly turning to Mercor to access proprietary datasets that large tech companies are unwilling to ...
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Scale AI Sues Rival Startup Mercor, Alleging Trade Secret Theft

Scale AI Inc. sued rival data-labeling startup Mercor, accusing the firm and a former Scale employee of stealing trade secrets to attract new business. The suit, filed in San Francisco federal court ...
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This 23 Year-Old’s New AI Data Company Has Already Hit A $100 Million Run Rate

AfterQuery founders Carlos Georgescu, 22, and Spencer Mateega, 23, pose for a photo in San Francisco. When the Winter 2025 deadline for famed startup incubator Y Combinator approached, Spencer Mateega ...