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Amazon SageMaker
Coverage of Amazon SageMaker in the Nexus archive.
- Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it
Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service by July 30, 2026. The service, launched in 2005, is being retired alongside its integration with SageMaker AI, with Amazon citing the development of competing services like SageMaker GroundTruth.
- 'Folding clothes, coffee making, sandwich making': Indian workers training AI robots to take their jobs
Indian workers, including housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra, are training AI robots via motion capture to perform household tasks like slicing mangoes, folding clothes, and making sandwiches. Companies such as Objectways collect this 'egocentric data' to improve AI systems for real-world environments, with clients including Amazon SageMaker.