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Mechanical Turk
Coverage of Mechanical Turk in the Nexus archive.
- Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk service. The company's Mechanical Turk platform may be nearing its end.
- Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it
Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service by July 30, 2026. The service, launched in 2005, is being retired alongside its integration with SageMaker AI, with Amazon citing the development of competing services like SageMaker GroundTruth.