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# AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

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**Published:** July 5, 2026  
**Original:** https://www.techmeme.com/260704/p13#a260704p13  

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