data annotation AI News & Updates

Amazon to Wind Down Mechanical Turk as AI Replaces Human Annotators

July 5, 2026 17:43

Amazon announced that its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace will stop accepting new customers starting in July 2026. The platform, once vital for human-in-the-loop data annotation, has struggled with bot fraud an...

Major AI Companies Withdraw from Scale AI Partnership Following Meta's Large Investment

June 14, 2025 18:46

Google is reportedly planning to end its $200 million contract with Scale AI, with Microsoft and OpenAI also pulling back from the data annotation startup. This withdrawal follows Meta's $14.3 billion investment for a 49...