Amazon is shutting down its 21-year-old platform that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos described as 'artificial artificial intelligence' at its launch in 2005

Amazon has announced that it will shut down its crowdsourced work platform Mechanical Truk, effective September 30, 2026, as reported by CNBC. Launched in the year 2025, the service was described by founder Jeff Bezos has ‘artificial artificial intelligence’, outsourcing simple digital tasks to humans that computers struggled to complete.