Mechanical Turk Closes - AI Ate Its Own Training Data
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk on July 30, 2026, retiring the crowdsourcing platform that spent 21 years training the AI models now replacing it.
Articles Tagged "AI Jobs"
US Adds 57K June Jobs as AI Hiring Slowdown Deepens
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 57,000 nonfarm payrolls added in June 2026, about half the consensus forecast, as tech and finance shed roles at 25,000-28,000 per month.
Ford Rehires 350 Engineers After AI Quality Fails
Ford climbed from No. 15 to No. 1 in JD Power's 2026 quality study - not by deploying more AI, but by admitting it had over-relied on automation and bringing back 350 veteran engineers to fix what the machines got wrong.
AI Job Cuts in 2026 Already Beat All of Last Year
Challenger, Gray & Christmas data shows 87,714 US jobs have cited AI as a cut reason through May 2026 - already past all of 2025's total - while companies post record profits.
Anthropic Surveyed 52K Americans - Just 15% Trust AI
Anthropic's first Public Record survey of 51,993 Americans finds 64% fear job displacement, only 15% trust AI companies, and 70%+ support government regulation - with rare bipartisan consensus.
Meta's Applied AI Unit Called a Gulag by Its Staff
Meta's 6,500-person Applied AI team, created in March with a join-or-quit mandate, is in revolt: 1,600+ employees signed a petition against keystroke surveillance, bathroom-stall flyers appeared across US campuses, and UK workers began organizing with UTAW.
Anthropic Launches Claude Corps, a $150M AI Fellowship
Anthropic commits $150 million to place 1,000 AI-trained fellows inside US nonprofits for a year at $85,000 each, no degree required.
ClickUp Cuts 290 Jobs and Deploys 3,000 AI Agents
ClickUp cut 22% of its workforce and replaced them with roughly 3,000 internal AI agents - a ratio of three agents per remaining employee.
Meta Mined Employee Keystrokes, Then Cut 8,000 Jobs
Leaked audio from a Meta all-hands reveals Zuckerberg used employee keystrokes and clipboard data to train AI models, days before laying off 8,000 staff.
Suleiman Claims AI Takes White-Collar Jobs in 18 Months
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman says professional jobs face automation within 18 months. The data from independent studies tells a different story.
Cloudflare Cuts 1,100 Jobs as AI Use Surges 600%
Cloudflare cut 1,100 workers - 20% of its staff - while posting record quarterly revenue of $639.8 million, saying AI has made those roles obsolete in just three months.
Connecticut Passes AI Bill 32-4 - Employment and Chatbots
Connecticut's Senate Bill 5 passed the state Senate 32-4 on April 21, covering frontier AI regulation, employment AI requirements, and chatbot self-harm rules - now it must survive a House that has blocked AI legislation before.
