“We regularly evaluate our programs, tools and services and make adjustments based on those assessments,” the tech giant wrote Tuesday (Aug. 25) in a notice posted to the Mechanical Turk (MTurk) ...

Launched in 2005 as a platform where human workers could perform quick digital chores that early software couldn't handle, the marketplace became a fixture for researchers, remote freelancers, and ...

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September, ending the 21-year-old marketplace that paid people cents a task to do what computers could not. A 2023 study found up to 46% of its workers were ...

Tech giant Amazon is now shutting down its more than two-decade-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said on Tuesday. The crowdsourced work platform will shut down on ...

Amazon confirmed Tuesday that Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026 — giving existing requesters and workers thirty-five days to migrate workflows, verify payment settings, and ...

Tech giant Amazon is now shutting down its more than two-decade-old crowdsourced work platform, Mechanical Turk, the company said on Tuesday. The crowdsourced work platform will shut down on 30 ...

AWS will shut down Amazon Mechanical Turk on Sept. 30, ending a 21-year platform that supplied human data and labor for research and AI projects. Amazon Mechanical Turk will shut down Sept. 30, 2026, ...