Amazon closes Mechanical Turk to new customers on July 30, 2026
Amazon stops accepting new Mechanical Turk customers effective July 30, 2026 and ships no new features — the 20-year-old crowdsourcing platform that built AI data labeling is on life support.
Cloudflare 2026 Content Independence Day: AI bot taxonomy
Cloudflare's second Content Independence Day splits AI bots into Search/Agent/Training, sets a Sep 15 default blocking Training and Agent on ad pages, and opens an x402 waitlist.