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

Online scams aren't going away, but tools like AI-powered alerts from PayPal and Venmo are making it much harder for scammers ...

Things quickly went wrong, including metal cube sales, a fake Venmo account, and an AI identity crisis. Still, the experiment hinted that AI middle managers are plausibly on the horizon.

Feedback watches with raised eyebrows as Anthropic's AI Claude is given the job of running the company vending machine, and ...

Economists and engineers have long warned about the “alignment problem” — how to make AI systems that stay useful and safe when tasked with open-ended goals. This vending trial offered a rare glimpse ...

In 2025, we’re witnessing a dramatic evolution in artificial intelligence—no longer just chatbots or productivity tools, but ...

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

A recent experiment from Anthropic shows just how strange things can get when an AI agent tries to do a human job. In "Project Vend," researchers gave their Claude Sonnet 3.7 AI the task of ...