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

Anthropic’s Claude AI ran a vending machine at WSJ headquarters for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, bought some ...

Anthropic has been testing how far AI agents can go by letting one run a real vending machine inside the Wall Street Journal ...

Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine in the WSJ office. The LLM, named Claudius, was responsible for ...

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,” ...

During testing, the AI agent also ordered a PlayStation5 and live betta fish, and staffers convinced it to give away almost everything for free, losing a bunch of money. Sounds fun! Anthropic’s ...

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

An AI was put in charge of a simple vending machine and ended up giving away PlayStation 5s, wine, and snacks for free. Over the course of several weeks, Claude AI reportedly made a string of ...