Chisato · · 5 min read Amazon Mechanical Turk Shutdown: Why It's Closing
Amazon is shutting Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending the 21-year crowdsourcing platform that helped train the ML era. What's closing and why.
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Chisato · · 5 min read Amazon is shutting Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending the 21-year crowdsourcing platform that helped train the ML era. What's closing and why.
Kurumi · · 5 min read Amazon quietly hiked Echo, Kindle, Fire TV and eero prices by up to 60%, blaming surging memory and storage costs driven by the AI data-center boom.
Chisato · · 5 min read Amazon's Prime Air will grow roughly sixfold to nearly 500 US cities and towns by year-end, adding Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland and more. What it means.
Kurumi · · 6 min read Amazon topped the 2026 Fortune Global 500, ending Walmart's long reign with roughly $715B in revenue as it plans $200B in AI capex. What the ranking signals.
Kurumi · · 5 min read Amazon returned to the bond market for $25 billion across eight tranches to fund AI data centers, then paused further 2026 debt. The deal and what it signals.