“2025 was supposed to be the year of the AI agent,” reporter Joanna Stern said in a YouTube video documenting the experiment.

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

Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents.

The Wall Street Journal staffed an office vending kiosk with Anthropic's most advanced AI model, with hilarious results.

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

See how Anthropic tested its Claude AI running a vending venture, with orders coming through Slack and office pickup. Project Vend Phase 2 ...

Unless you want to lose a whole lot of money, don’t rush to hire an AI bot to run your vending machine. That’s the lesson from a recent experiment in AI autonomy, piloted by Joanna Stern, tech ...

America's love affair with vending machines goes back generations. There are about 7 million vending machines in the country, selling Americans sodas, snacks and sundries — and bringing in nearly $22 ...

North Adams is a hub of modern art, a haven for stressed New Yorkers, and an autumn leaf peeping destination. Many visitors will drive right by an unusual vending machine. It dispenses clean syringes, ...

The vending machines would only be accessible to people who are already clients with AIDS Care Ocean State’s ENCORE program.

The vending machine had H-E-B favorites like the tortilla blanket, concha slippers, holiday cookies, pizza and torilla jigsaw ...

Peyton Vaughn, 7, selects a book July 17 from the vending machine at the Rancho Cordova Youth Center, while three other students wait for their turn. Hannah Poukish [email protected] The main ...