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Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk (MTurk) on September 30, 2026, after 21 years, ending the crowdsourced digital labor platform that helped build the human-data pipeline for AI. The company stop…

Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, has avoided both content licensing deals and lawsuits from digital publishers, unlike rivals OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity, according to interviews with four …

Amazon has made Alexa+ free on Fire TV for all US users, expanding the audience for Alexa+ developers and making content discovery easier for Fire TV developers. Alexa+ add-ons can now process payment…

Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI model family, is reportedly set to pay $45 billion to London-based AI infrastructure company Nscale for AI compute capacity, according to a report. The deal, …

A new method from Amazon scientists, presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), improves LLM-as-a-judge evaluation by accounting for correlations between judges' outputs, ou…

Amazon confirmed September 30, 2026 as the final shutdown date for Mechanical Turk, the 21-year-old crowdsourced labor marketplace, with all APIs going offline. New sign-ups closed July 30, alongside …

Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market faces mounting pressure from rivals including AMD, Intel, and hyperscalers' custom silicon, though its CUDA software ecosystem and scale provide a strong defen…

MSI's Vector 16 HX AI gaming laptop, featuring the Core Ultra 7 255HX processor and RTX 5070 Ti GPU, is available on Amazon with a discount coupon valid until September 9, 2026, reducing the price to …

Nvidia Corp. is on pace to become the first semiconductor company to post $100 billion in revenue in a single quarter, with consensus estimates for fiscal Q3 2027 (ending October 2026) at roughly $104…

A report cited by VentureBeat finds that cost, not technical issues like hallucinations, is the primary barrier to successful enterprise AI projects, with hidden implementation costs and integration d…

NuScale Power, the only US company with full Nuclear Regulatory Commission certification for its small modular reactor design, holds $1.9 billion in cash and zero revenue, betting on a power purchase …

Amazon is shredding physical books after digitizing them to feed its AI model training pipeline, a process that prioritizes high-fidelity, structured content over messy web data. The industrial workfl…

A New York Times opinion piece warns that the artificial intelligence investment boom, driven by hyperscalers borrowing heavily to build data centers, is endangering the broader economy, with the debt…

Amazon is selling the Insta360 Flow 2 Pro Ultimate AI Tracker Bundle for $159.99, down from $227.99, a 30% discount and its lowest price to date, according to price trackers. The bundle includes a thr…

Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourced gig-work platform, on September 30, according to a message posted on the platform's website on Tuesday. The company said it regularly evaluate…

Amazon is selling HP's 2026 OmniStudio 27 All-in-One Copilot+ PC with Intel Core Ultra 5 325 for $1,099.99, down from its recent $1,380 going rate, marking the first notable discount on this configura…

As of Aug. 26, the Creality K1 Max 3D Printer is on sale for $548.99 at Amazon, down from the list price of $719, a 24% discount saving $170.01. The printer features AI LiDAR and an AI camera for qual…

An anonymous Amazon employee at the VGT3 warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, described how the facility destructively scans books for AI training data, cutting off spines and discarding loose pages into m…

Amazon's Ring security brand will introduce Throw Away the Key Encryption (TAKE) starting in September, a new standard that encrypts customer video with rotating keys and deletes Ring's access key aft…

Ring, an Amazon-owned company, announced a new encryption method called Throw Away the Key Encryption (TAKE) that will become the default for all Ring cameras starting in September, limiting what the …