An AI-powered vending machine pilot turned into an unplanned lesson in what happens when you give software too much freedom in the real world. In the test, the system was reportedly nudged into ...

Still think AI is ready to revolutionize the economy? A new experiment might change your mind. In a bold test of Anthropic’s latest version of its AI Claude, The Wall Street Journal gave the large ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maurice’s Black Market Vending Machine is one of the weekly challenges you can pursue in Borderlands 4 after you have completed the campaign. Also known as the legendary vending machine, this unique ...

Ideally, by the time the press gets their hands on a new product or service, all the kinks have already been worked out. Not so for “Claudius,” an AI-operated vending machine that Anthropic lent to ...

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 this special year-end episode of Bold Names, Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims revisit talks with Mustafa Suleyman and Condoleezza Rice. They also debate the 2026 AI outlook, U.S.-China trade, and ...

CARMEL, Ind. — A Carmel man working in finance faces federal charges on accusations that he is connected to a $200-million-plus Ponzi scheme involving water vending machines, according to the ...

“Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free — including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for ‘marketing purposes.’ It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy ...