Scale AI wins a $500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a $100M deal in 2025 (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-06/meta-backed-scale-ai-wins-500-million-defense-department-deal"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260506/i49.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260506/p49#a260506p49" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jen Judson / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-06/meta-backed-scale-ai-wins-500-million-defense-department-deal">Scale AI wins a $500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a $100M deal in 2025</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The Pentagon awarded a $500 million contract to Meta Platforms Inc.-backed Scale AI to help sift through data and assist in decision-making &hellip; </p>