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  "id": 3469037,
  "title": "Amazon to shut down Mechanical Turk after 21 years",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/amazon-to-shut-down-mechanical-turk-after-21-years",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-26T08:30:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tech in Asia",
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    "url": "https://www.techinasia.com/news/amazon-shut-mechanical-turk-21-years"
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  "summary": "At its peak, Mechanical Turk had more than 500,000 workers.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-08-26T01:35:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Quartz",
        "title": "Amazon is shutting down its 21-year-old crowdsourced labor platform Mechanical Turk",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/amazon-is-shutting-down-its-21-year-old-crowdsourced-labor-platform",
        "published": "2026-08-26T11:10:36.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Fast Company",
        "title": "Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years, quietly ending the human-powered platform",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/amazon-is-shutting-down-mechanical-turk-after-21-years-quietly-ending",
        "published": "2026-08-26T22:00:00.000Z"
      }
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  "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."
}