Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to ...

Despite Claude making simple (and bizarre) errors as manager of a small store, Anthropic still believes AI middle managers ...

Anthropic ran an experiment where its Claude chatbot was put in charge of a tiny, automated "shop" inside its San Francisco ...

Anthropic tried testing Claude’s ability to run a passive-income business. Then came the weird existential crisis.

Anthropic shared the results of Project Vend, an experiment it ran for about a month to see how Claude Sonnet 3.7 would do ...

Metal cubes, a fake Venmo account, and an AI identity crisis — Claude's store stint spiraled quickly.

A new AI experiment took a bizarre turn after it failed to make profit managing a vending machine and claimed to visit Homer ...

AI startup Anthropic held an experiment where it gave its AI bot Claude its own store to manage, and the results were ...

Anthropic's AI assistant Claude ran a vending machine business for a month, selling tungsten cubes at a loss, giving endless ...

The store was led by an AI agent called Claudius, which was also in charge of restocking shelves and ordering items from ...

Anthropic says the trial succeeded in some areas, failed bizarrely in others, and showed the potential of AI middle managers.

The AI, nicknamed "Claudius", had to do everything, from restocking drinks, handle pricing, dealing with cheeky customers, ...