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.
Meta Unwinds Manus Deal Under Beijing Cross-Border Order
On June 11, 2026, Meta began unwinding its $2B Manus acquisition after an April NDRC order — the first forced unwind of a completed cross-border AI deal. A new exit template emerges.
Anthropic's $150M Claude Corps fellowship
Anthropic commits $150M to a national fellowship: 1,000 early-career workers at $85K/year, 12 months at 400+ US nonprofits. Partners: CodePath, Social Finance.
Anthropic Seeks AI-Blocking Powers, Gets Blocked Instead
On June 10, 2026, Anthropic asked the US government for power to block dangerous frontier models. Two days later, that power suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5.