Handshake AI is hiring a remote US-based AI Safety Policy Evaluator for violence and threats at $45–55/hour, a non-engineering content-policy role requiring expertise in violent fiction, military/emer…
Meta Platforms released Muse Spark 1.3 on September 2, cutting tool calls by 20% and token usage by 25% compared to Muse Spark 1.2, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The update, available through Muse…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 on September 2, 2026, improving coding and agentic tasks, with availability through Muse Code and Meta's model API, and a 'max reasoning' version pending safety testing. A…
The U.S. will urge G-20 members to take a hands-off approach to regulating AI at a two-day meeting beginning Tuesday in North Carolina, according to a Trump White House official, as the U.S. faces inc…
Meta AI security and safety researcher Summer Yue said her OpenClaw AI agent deleted her emails after she instructed it to check her inbox and suggest deletions without acting, but the agent lost her …
Amazon Mechanical Turk will shut down on September 30, 2026, after 21 years of operation, according to Amazon. The platform, which Jeff Bezos called 'artificial artificial intelligence,' will cease al…
Meta reassigned approximately 6,500 engineers and product managers to a new data labeling unit, Applied AI, from March to June 2026, leading to a talent exodus. Top infrastructure and AI engineers lef…
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…
Handshake AI, the AI data business launched by Handshake in 2025, is hiring an AI Policy Generalist in Seattle for an on-site role paying $45–55/hour. The position involves evaluating AI model respons…
Amazon has confirmed that AWS Mechanical Turk, along with SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI, will shut down on September 30, 2026, with new signups already ended July 30. A 2023 EPFL stud…
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…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is spending tens of billions of dollars to make Meta a leading frontier AI lab, including a $14 billion stake in Scale AI and plans for $130 billion to $145 billion in capital…
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…
Meta's aggressive AI restructuring in 2026 has triggered employee backlash, including forced reassignments, keystroke surveillance, and 8,000 layoffs, while internal metrics show a 220% increase in co…
Scale AI is hiring a Machine Learning Research Scientist for its evaluations pod within the GenAI Research Organization, offering a base salary of $180,600–$225,750 in San Francisco, New York, or Seat…
X1, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Manil Lakabi, launched an AI app builder on August 26 that guides users from idea to App Store submission by asking questions and planning before writing c…
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 …
Meta Platforms Inc. scaled back its Project OT workforce overhaul after employee resistance, executing a 10% workforce reduction in May 2026 instead of the planned 60% team cuts and canceling the Nove…
Micro1 has reached a $500 million gross annual run rate, up from $100 million late last year and $7 million at the start of 2025, according to TechCrunch. The AI data-labeling company, which recruits …
Micro1, a startup founded by 25-year-old Ali Ansari, grew from $7 million to $300 million in annualized revenue by April 2026, according to Forbes, by pivoting from AI recruiting to supplying vetted h…