{
  "id": 3396278,
  "title": "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)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/aws-says-it-plans-to-shut-down-mechanical-turk-on-september-30-2026",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-26T01:35:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}