☁️ Google Cloud's outage

What we’ll cover today:

🧠 Why SaaS giants are fleeing Scale AI after Meta’s stake

☁️ Google Cloud's outage and what it says about infra fragility

💸 How rivals like Labelbox and Handshake are cashing in overnight

🔐 The new “neutrality” gold rush in data and AI ops

Google Says “Bye” to Scale AI 👋

Google, Scale AI’s biggest customer, plans to cut ties after Meta bought nearly half the company. Awkward? Very.

🚨 Breaking News
Meta is buying 49% of Scale AI. Google, Microsoft, and others are fleeing fast to protect their AI secrets.

⚡ Wire Simplified

• Google was set to pay Scale ~$200M in 2025. That’s now… not happening.

• Meta’s stake in Scale raised its value from $14B to $29B overnight.

• Scale’s CEO is joining Meta to help boost its AI efforts.

• Competitors like Labelbox and Handshake are now getting flooded with new business.

• Other Scale clients (Microsoft, xAI, OpenAI) are also pulling away—data privacy panic mode activated.

✔️ Straight to the Point
Google’s AI breakup with Scale shows how messy things get when your data partner suddenly moves in with your biggest rival.

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Google Cloud… Crashed 🫠

Google Cloud—used by giants like Shopify and OpenAI—faced major global outages, causing chaos across the internet.

🚨 Breaking News
On Thursday, 13 Google Cloud services went down globally, affecting apps like Mailchimp, Twitch, GitHub, and even OpenAI.

⚡ Wire Simplified

• Google Cloud had outages in the US, Europe, and Asia.

• Shopify, OpenAI, and many others reported broken logins and service issues.

• Google’s team had no ETA but restored all services by the evening.

• Outages affected 13+ tools including Firebase and LangChain.

• This is a blow to Google’s cloud race with AWS and Azure.

✔️ Straight to the Point
Google Cloud glitched, taking half the internet with it. Maybe it’s time to keep backup hosting plans... just in case.

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