An AI agent was given the simple task of running a vending machine. It ended in chaos, confusion, and over $1,000 in losses.

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 humble vending machine has long been a mainstay of shopping on the go. The most popular kinds sell drinks or snacks, but you can also find vending machines offering everything from ice cream and ...

Farmer’s Fridge now has a 100,000-square-foot kitchen near Midway Airport and thousands of locations across 20 states selling salads to millions of customers.

You can find a lot of vending machines in Japan, run by all sorts of beverage companies, but one of the most prolific of them all is DyDo, which is easily identified ...

When I walked into Melbourne’s new staff-free 7-Eleven on the corner of Spencer and Collins Street, I wasn’t sure if I’d stepped into the future or the world’s most aggressively-lit vending area.

Joining a growing nationwide push to turn trash into cash and reduce plastic pollution, Paro launched its first reverse ...