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

Despite Claude making simple (and bizarre) errors as manager of a small store, Anthropic still believes AI middle managers ...

In the new partnership, Dust will help companies create AI agents using Claude and Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), ...

Anthropic ran an experiment where its Claude chatbot was put in charge of a tiny, automated "shop" inside its San Francisco ...

Anthropic tried testing Claude’s ability to run a passive-income business. Then came the weird existential crisis.

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

A new AI experiment took a bizarre turn after it failed to make profit managing a vending machine and claimed to visit Homer ...

The store was led by an AI agent called Claudius, which was also in charge of restocking shelves and ordering items from ...

Anthropic's AI assistant Claude ran a vending machine business for a month, selling tungsten cubes at a loss, giving endless ...

Anthropic says the trial succeeded in some areas, failed bizarrely in others, and showed the potential of AI middle managers.

However, researchers at Anthropic seemed optimistic that many of Claudius’s faults could be solved, and they did confirm the possibility of seeing AI take on managerial roles in the future.

The AI, nicknamed "Claudius", had to do everything, from restocking drinks, handle pricing, dealing with cheeky customers, ...