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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Supply Chain AI Startup Auger Raises $50M Series B
Auger, the AI-driven supply chain startup led by former Amazon executive Dave Clark, has raised a $50 million Series B, bringing its total funding to $150 million.
Read more →Microsoft Launches $2.5B Frontier Company to Embed AI Engineers in Enterprises
Microsoft committed $2.5 billion and 6,000 engineers to a new subsidiary that stations AI specialists directly inside client organizations, competing with similar offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Amazon.
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 →Amazon Launches Alexa+ Agentic Ads for In-Conversation Purchases
Amazon's new Alexa+ Agentic Ads format lets customers move from seeing an ad to completing a purchase entirely within a conversation — no app-switching required.
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