Markets and companies

Amazon closes Mechanical Turk to new customers

2026-07-07 digest confirmed

  • Category: Markets
  • Status: confirmed
  • Sources: TechCrunch, HN discussion
  • Summary: TechCrunch reported on 2026-07-05 that Amazon will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace. Existing customers retain access under the report.
  • Why it matters: Mechanical Turk is a long-standing source of human labeling and evaluation data for ML pipelines, so closing it to new customers removes an onboarding path teams have relied on for dataset and eval work.

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