What Happens When You Let AI Run A Business

“2025 was supposed to be the year of the AI agent,” reporter Joanna Stern said in a YouTube video documenting the experiment.
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Anthropic’s Advanced New AI Tries to Run Vending Machine, Goes Bankrupt After Ordering PlayStation 5 and Live Fish

In a bold test of Anthropic’s latest version of its AI Claude, The Wall Street Journal gave the large language model (LLM) a shot at running an office vending machine. The result was an unmitigated — ...
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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 crazy stuff and taught us a lot about the future of AI agents. WSJ’s Joanna ...
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When an AI is put in charge of running a snack vending machine, it starts distributing PlayStations for free and stocking fish, resulting in a huge deficit.

AI company Anthropic is conducting an experiment called ' Project Vend,' in which it embeds its own AI into vending machines and entrusts them with management. Following an initial report in June 2025 ...