An AI agent was given the simple task of running a vending machine. It ended in chaos, confusion, and over $1,000 in losses.

A Wall Street Journal office experiment using an Anthropic-powered vending machine reportedly ended in losses after staff manipulated the AI into free giveaways and questionable “purchases,” ...

AI Will Replace Humans? Yaa Sure, Replace That Vending Machine Software First You Piece Of Code., AI, Times Now ...

Anthropic’s Claude AI ran a vending machine at WSJ headquarters for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, bought some crazy stuff and taught us a lot about the future of AI agents. WSJ’s Joanna ...

Unless you want to lose a whole lot of money, don’t rush to hire an AI bot to run your vending machine. That’s the lesson from a recent experiment in AI autonomy, piloted by Joanna Stern, tech ...

AI chatbots can hallucinate and do a lot of weird stuff, but wait until you hear what Anthropic's AI Claude did when it ...

See how Anthropic tested its Claude AI running a vending venture, with orders coming through Slack and office pickup. Project Vend Phase 2 ...

In a bold test of Anthropic’s latest version of its AI Claude, The Wall Street Journal gave the large language model (LLM) a ...

Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal Personal Technology Columnist joins CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' to share more details about an AI vending machine experiment in the WSJ newsroom and why chaos ...