Amazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk After 21 Years
Amazon will permanently close Mechanical Turk on September 30, ending the crowdsourced-labor platform it once called "artificial artificial intelligence."
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South Australia Launches Australia's First AI Royal Commission
South Australia will hold Australia's first royal commission into artificial intelligence, examining its impact on jobs, education and public services from October 2026.
Read more →Montefiore Lays Off 12 Nurses, Shifts to AI for Insurance Reviews
A Bronx hospital eliminated 12 utilization-review nursing jobs and moved insurance-approval work to AI software, prompting a union grievance over a newly signed labor contract.
Read more →Fed Names Marc Andreessen to Lead New AI Jobs Task Force
The Federal Reserve has created a task force led by investor Marc Andreessen to study how AI reshapes productivity and jobs, informing future monetary policy.
Read more →Zuckerberg Admits Meta's AI Agent Push Is Running Behind Schedule
At an internal town hall, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg conceded that AI agent development has not "accelerated in the way" the company expected, despite a $145 billion infrastructure commitment and a major workforce reorganization.
Read more →AI Cited in 31% of US Job Cuts for Fourth Consecutive Month
Artificial intelligence was the top stated reason behind US layoffs for the fourth month in a row in June, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas — with more than 101,700 AI-related cuts announced so far in 2026.
Read more →Half of Claude Users Say AI Already Handles Most of Their Work, Anthropic Finds
Anthropic's June 2026 Economic Index links real Claude session data to a direct survey of 9,700 users, finding roughly half say AI already handles 50 percent or more of their work tasks — and more than one-third expect automation to cover most of their job within a year.
Read more →Amazon, Anthropic and Microsoft Back $500M Nonprofit to Retrain Workers for the AI Era
RAISE US, a nonpartisan nonprofit co-chaired by former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, launched June 25 with over $500 million from more than 25 companies to retrain American workers displaced by AI.
Read more →AI Didn't Kill Engineering Jobs — But Entry-Level Hiring Has Collapsed
New data from SignalFire tracking millions of tech workers shows engineers are the most resilient job category in the AI era, even as recent graduates and non-technical roles absorbed the steepest cuts.
Read more →Oracle Names AI in SEC Filing as It Cuts 21,000 Jobs
Oracle's annual SEC filing explicitly names AI as a cause of the 21,000 jobs it eliminated in fiscal 2026 — one of the first such disclosures by a major tech company.
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