UK Tech Pulse: The Weekend in AI, Cloud, and Digital Culture

Amazon Web Services is pulling the plug on Mechanical Turk, the platform that has defined crowdsourced AI training for 21 years. Launched in 2005, MTurk once connected 500,000+ workers with micro-tasks like image tagging and transcription—the "artificial artificial intelligence" that bridged the gap before modern models took over. The service shuts down September 30, 2026, marking the end of an era where humans were the bottleneck AI...