Krista Pawloski

Amazon will permanently close Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending a 21-year run for the crowdsourcing service that connected more than 500,000 paid human workers with businesses needing smal…

Amazon Web Services will permanently shut down Amazon Mechanical Turk on Sept. 30, 2026, after 21 years of operation, giving workers and businesses a little more than a month to transition away from t…

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…