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Amazon to Shut Down Mechanical Turk on September 30 After 21 Years

Amazon Web Services has announced that it will permanently shut down Amazon Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026. The retirement brings an end to a 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform that served as an early foundation for modern machine learning dataset annotation and human-in-the-loop computing. In a formal notice posted to the Mechanical Turk portal, AWS stated that the decision followed an internal assessment of its service portfolio. The platform had previously halted new customer registra

Pew Study Finds 35% of Post-ChatGPT Webpages Show Signs of AI Authorship

More than one-third of English-language webpages published since the launch of ChatGPT show measurable evidence of being generated or heavily edited by large language models, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center. The analysis examined nearly 500,000 English-language web documents indexed across a five-year window in the Common Crawl archive, spanning periods before and after OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in November 2022. Using detection technology developed by Open Pangram, res

Rich Sutton: Relying on Synthetic Data to Scale Foundation Models Is a 'Big Mistake'

Reinforcement learning pioneer Richard Sutton has challenged the artificial intelligence industry's accelerating pivot toward synthetic data, characterizing the strategy as a fundamental misstep that cannot resolve the scaling bottlenecks confronting foundation models. Speaking alongside Oak Lab co-founder Khurram Javeed, the author of the foundational 2019 essay "The Bitter Lesson" argued that synthetic data generation inherently runs counter to the principles that govern general intelligence.

Prevalent AI Secures 2M Growth Round to Build Knowledge Graph Context Layer for AI Agents

London-based enterprise data architecture startup Prevalent AI has secured $22 million in growth capital from Integrity Growth Partners (IGP). The investment represents the first primary institutional capital raised by the company since its founding in 2017. Prevalent AI was co-founded by CEO Paul Stokes and COO Arun Raj, both alumni of the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The company had previously operated as a bootstrapped, profitable business focused on resolving complex

Google paid $10M at auction for Spirit Airlines data to train AI