STARTUP GRAVEYARD
RIP to the AI wrappers, agents, and pivot-merchants we lost this week.
Mechanical Turk shuts down September 30
The 'Artificial Artificial Intelligence' era is officially over.
Amazon to discontinue Amazon Turk by September 30, recent studies tell that 46% of its tasks were completed by artificial intelligence
The Mechanical Turk has been killed by the ghosts in the machine.
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
Pivot to Google: When your startup dies so you can fix the world's most bloated browser.
Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps
Microsoft just sent its AI mascot and auto-podcasts to the big farm upstate.
GitHub Models is now retired
RIP GitHub Models: The easiest way to burn tokens in your CI/CD just died.
Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints
Turns out people trying to get heart meds don't like arguing with a hallucinating robot.
GitHub Models is now retired
Microsoft just sunsetted the LLM playground everyone forgot they built.
The End of Dario
From AI South Park episodes to the corporate afterlife.
Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
Big 'coming soon' energy from the man who promised an AI encyclopedia then forgot the password.
Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
Goodbye 'Hey Google', hello 'Hey Gemini, why are you hallucinating?'
Quoting Steve Yegge
Local AI dev discovers his agent is too obsessed with its own reflection to actually work.
Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day
Google Earth speedran the entire product lifecycle in 24 hours.
Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation
Google speedrunning the 'release-backlash-delete' cycle in record time.
Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others
The 'AI made me do it' excuse is officially the new corporate vibe for 2024.
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
The 'It's not AI replacing you, it's just AI changing things' layoffs have arrived.
Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI
The 'AI ate my job' speedrun just dropped a new level.
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI kills the browser to let the agents live in your Chrome extension.
The ChatGPT browser is already dead
OpenAI Speedrun: Ship an agentic browser and kill it before the users even learn the URL.
Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI
Replacing your workforce with a shell script: 2026 Edition.
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
The yearly ritual of trimming the headcount to keep the stock gods happy.
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk | TechCrunch
The sweatshop that built AI is being replaced by the AI it built.
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
The OG 'Artificial Artificial Intelligence' is finally being replaced by actual AI.
Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
Google kills another product before it could even finish its first cup of coffee.
End of an Agony. Real production service that uses LLM to earn money my team had made and now we are so happy that it will die. Here are some of my final "experiences".
POV: you realize RAG architecture for medical appointments is actually a circles of hell simulator.
AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
Raise $7M, build an engine, archive the repo, and vanish into the sunset.
3090 died, good night sweet prince
Press F to pay respects to the most over-worked VRAM in history.
Amazing Digital Dentures (a failed project)
When the tooth fairy meets the hallucination fairy.
What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work
Software is eating the world, but AI agents are eating the software engineers.
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