Anthropic’s Claude AI model ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom. It lost hundreds of dollars, gave away a PlayStation and bought a live fish. 🔗: https://t.co/5twu55gGIJ https://t.co/jgVcQJ6gZf ...

When an AI agent is given autonomy, money, and human colleagues, what happens. Our next guest participated in Anthropic's Project Vend experiment where AI ran the Wall Street Journal's office vending machine, and the project took some surprising twists and turns. Joining us this morning is Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal personal technology columnist and CNBC contributor.Joanna, happy Friday. You must know all that this made the rounds all around the street and beyond. For those who haven't gotten to the ...

AI ran our office vending machine for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, gave away a PlayStation, bought a live fish—and taught us a lot about AI agents, writes @JoannaStern. https://t.co/V6NrbyQzy6 ...