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AWS to Shut Down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026

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AWS announced it will shut down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourcing platform that outsources tasks to humans, on September 30, 2026, following an assessment. The service, launched in 2005, has operated for 21 years.

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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 service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans — Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday.