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 "AWS"
AWS Bets $1B to Embed AI Engineers at Client Sites
Amazon's new Forward Deployed Engineering unit places AI specialists inside enterprise clients to build and ship agentic systems in weeks, following similar programs already launched by OpenAI and Anthropic.
Amazon Tops Hyperscalers With $48B India AI Pledge
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy pledged $48 billion for India through 2030 after meeting PM Modi, outspending Microsoft and Google on AI infrastructure in the world's fastest-growing cloud market.
Amazon Eyes Third-Party Trainium Sales to Rival Nvidia
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy hints the company will sell Trainium3 racks directly to outside data centers, citing a potential $50B revenue run rate and sold-out chip supply.
Odyssey Raises $310M as Amazon Bets on World Models
Amazon leads a $310M round into Odyssey, a startup building world models that simulate physics - not just language - with Trainium chip adoption baked in as the price of entry.
AI's Debt Wave Hits $570B as Amazon Borrows $17.5B
Morgan Stanley projects $570B in AI-linked global debt issuance for 2026, more than double last year, as Amazon's $17.5B term loan reveals capex now consuming virtually all hyperscaler cash flows.
OpenAI Moves to AWS One Day After Microsoft Exclusivity Ends
One day after Microsoft's exclusive license ended, OpenAI launched GPT-5.4, Codex, and jointly built Managed Agents on Amazon Bedrock - all in limited preview.
Cerebras WSE-3 - The Wafer-Scale AI Engine
The Cerebras WSE-3 is the largest chip ever built - a TSMC 5nm wafer with 900,000 AI cores, 44GB SRAM, and 21 PB/s bandwidth. Now powering a $20B OpenAI deal and Amazon Bedrock deployments.
Best AI Cloud Cost Optimization Tools 2026
A data-driven comparison of Vantage, CAST AI, ProsperOps, CloudZero, nOps, and Infracost - the top AI-powered platforms for cutting cloud and GPU spend in 2026.
7 Best AI Diagramming Tools for Engineers in 2026
Eraser, Mermaid, draw.io, Whimsical, Miro, and Lucidchart compared on AI quality, pricing, and developer workflow fit.
Amazon Bets $25B on Anthropic and 5GW of Trainium
Amazon will invest up to $25 billion more in Anthropic, with Anthropic committing to spend over $100 billion on AWS over the next decade, cementing Trainium as Claude's primary compute platform.
Speech-to-Text API Pricing Compared - 2026
Per-minute and per-1000-minute transcription API pricing across OpenAI Whisper, Deepgram Nova-3, AssemblyAI, Google Chirp 2, Azure, AWS Transcribe, Groq, ElevenLabs Scribe, and more.
