Nvidia forecast 70% fiscal 2028 growth and $673 billion in sales, while US data centers used an estimated 17 billion gallons of water in 2023, highlighting the physical and financial costs of the comp…
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 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…
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 …
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 closing Mechanical Turk to new users on July 30, putting the 21-year-old platform into maintenance mode after a 2023 study found that 33–46% of workers were using large language models to co…
Mercor, an AI labor marketplace founded by Brendan Foody, hit a $2 billion gross annualized revenue run rate in June 2026, doubling its pace earlier in the year. The growth comes as Amazon phases out …
Amazon Web Services is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourcing platform launched in 2005 as the original 'Artificial Artificial Intelligence,' to new customers starting July 30, 2026. The ser…