'2025 Was Supposed To Be The Year Of The AI Agent.' Instead, An AI-Run Vending Machine Gave Away A PS5, Live Fish, And Lost Money

An AI agent was given the simple task of running a vending machine. It ended in chaos, confusion, and over $1,000 in losses.
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We Let AI Run a Vending Machine. It Stocked a Live Fish and a PlayStation.

We Let AI Run a Vending Machine. It Stocked a Live Fish and a PlayStation. Anthropic’s Claude AI ran a vending machine at WSJ headquarters for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, bought some ...