Earlier this month, after Meta invested $14 billion in Scale AI and hired its CEO, Alexandr Wang, speculation quickly surfaced that Scale could lose some of its marquee clients. As Reuters later reported, Google was the first company to sever its relationship with Scale, citing Meta’s now 49 percent ownership stake in the startup. But that split was just the latest chapter in a long relationship between Google and Scale, which was fraught with lapses in security protocols for at least 11 months ...