Anthropic, the developer of the artificial intelligence (AI) known as Claude, is running an experiment in its offices. In an effort to test AI autonomy in a controlled environment, it is having an AI ...

Anthropic tried testing Claude’s entrepreneurial spirit. Then came the weird existential crisis. What happens when you let an AI run a very small business? That’s the question Anthropic set out to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

As companies frantically roll out AI tools in a bid to avoid hiring or training actual people, we see AI being used in ever more diverse and bizarre applications. Like, say, running a vending machine.

Hey, you know those politicians and captains of industry who tell us AI will be running the world in a few years’ time? Turns out one of the most sophisticated models currently in use can’t even ...

In a blog post on its website, Anthropic researchers explained that the experiment, named Project Vend, was created in tandem with AI safety evaluation firm Andon Labs, which had developed a benchmark ...