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AI automation startup Relay shuts down, and its staff, including CEO Jacob Bank, are joining Google's Chrome team to work on AI integration.

Amazon is exiting the MMO space, handing off live operations of Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark to other companies and discontinuing New World: Aeternum, shifting its gaming focus to Luna cloud gaming and other projects.

Google will shut down Google Assistant on Android devices starting September 4, replacing it entirely with Gemini, affecting phones, smartwatches, headphones, and cars with Android Auto.

Google will remove Google Assistant from Android phones, tablets, and paired devices starting September 4th, replacing it with Gemini where available.

A compilation of Google products and services that have been or will be discontinued, including Google Earth Pro, Firebase Studio, Tenor API, Pixel Studio, and more.

The author announces the winding down and archival of Artichoke Ruby, a Rust-based Ruby VM implementation, after six years, reflecting on the project's origins, achievements, and the reasons for its conclusion.

Roblox is discontinuing its video chat service Roblox Connect, which allowed users to chat via avatars that mimic real-life movements, as users aged 13 and older prefer the platform's Party Voice feature for voice calls.

OpenAI is shutting down its standalone ChatGPT Atlas browser, less than a year after launch, with deprecation set for August 9th. The move is part of a broader consolidation into a desktop "superapp" called ChatGPT Work, which integrates the browser, Codex, and other features.

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk on July 30, 2026, putting the crowdsourcing service on life support with no new features planned, while existing customers can continue using it.

Google announces the shutdown of the consumer version of Gemini Code Assist on GitHub on July 17, while the enterprise version remains available.

Notion is discontinuing Notion Mail, its email client built on Skiff technology, because most users now use AI agents for email management. Users must export data by September 21, 2026.

Sunbuddy AI, a well-funded AI chatbot competitor to ChatGPT, shut down after OpenAI threatened a $3 million lawsuit over alleged UI similarities, sparking debate about corporate intimidation in the AI industry.

The company Mythos, built on top of external AI intelligence, was shut down this week, illustrating the vulnerability of renting intelligence rather than owning it.

The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 AI model using export law, marking the first time federal regulators have removed a deployed AI system from public access.

Amazon shut down an internal AI leaderboard after employees admitted to cheating to climb the ranks, with suspicions that the shutdown was due to widespread cheating and wasteful AI usage.

OpenAI shut down development of its Sora video generator, derailing the $30M AI-animated feature 'Critterz' just before its Cannes premiere, highlighting the dependency risks of AI filmmaking.

Roo Code, a popular AI coding assistant with 3 million installs, is shutting down as its creators pivot fully to Roomote.

Turtle WoW, a popular World of Warcraft private server, has announced a complete shutdown following a court injunction won by Blizzard in a copyright infringement lawsuit. The closure comes after the two parties reached a settlement requiring certain actions to be taken.