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AWS SHUTTING DOWN MECHANICAL TURK IN 2026

Amazon Web Services will discontinue Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending the 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform that connected businesses with human workers for task completion.

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AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC: AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the…

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