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2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (259+ words) Class A Dig: Windsurf Google $2.4B was talent+licence — not company ACQ; Cognition is the company sale Dealroom Class A Dig: Windsurf Google $2.4B was talent+licence — not company ACQ; Cognition is the company sale Class A false company-ACQ Dig (Pass A5). Dealroom…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (390+ words) Amazon has posted a closure notice on the official Mechanical Turk site confirming that its crowdsourcing marketplace will permanently close on September 30, 2026. The decision ends the service that matched businesses and developers with a distributed human workforce for small digital…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (659+ words) Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourced work platform, on September 30, 2026, after 21 years of operation. The service, launched in 2005, connected businesses with human workers who completed small digital tasks such as data labeling, transcription, and surveys for small per-task…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (334+ words) Amazon is shutting down crowdsourced work platform Mechanical Turk, it said on Tuesday. Mechanical Turk became a favorite with gig workers who completed tasks to earn money. The platform increasingly struggled as AI use grew, though. Amazon is closing a…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (195+ words) Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN, Financials) is shutting down a service that used to be a creative workaround to the limitations of artificial intelligence. Mechanical Turk, which was founded in 2005, will shut down after 21 years on September 30. The website connects people…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (176+ words) Amazon's online marketplace for tiny digital tasks is being sunsetted. The company says its Mechanical Turk service, launched in 2005 to connect businesses with people willing... Amazon Putting End to Service It Has Offered for 21 Years Amazon's online marketplace for tiny…...

4+ week, 11+ hour ago   (422+ words) After 21 years, Amazon is shutting down its crowdsourced work platform Mechanical Turk. “We regularly evaluate our programs, tools and services and make adjustments based on those assessments,” the tech giant wrote Tuesday (Aug. 25) in a notice posted to the Mechanical…...

4+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1107+ words) Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September, ending the 21-year-old marketplace that paid people cents a task to do what computers could not. A 2023 study found up to 46% of its workers were already using AI to complete the jobs. Amazon…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (296+ words) Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk—a platform that matches workers with small digital tasks. The internet company announced this Jeff Bezos reported on August 25. "We regularly evaluate our programs, tools, and services and make adjustments based on these evaluations....

4+ week, 17+ hour ago   (26+ words) Tech in Asia If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser....