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  "id": 3498514,
  "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",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-26T11:10:36.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://qz.com/amazon-mechanical-turk-shutting-down-082626"
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  "summary": "The 21-year-old platform matched workers with small digital tasks and once served 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": "Tech in Asia",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-08-26T08:30:01.000Z"
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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."
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