Day: July 4, 2025

🤖 Can AI Run a Business? Anthropic’s Claude Tries—and Fails Spectacularly

A realistic photo of a retro-style robot promoting a 10% discount on vending machine snacks, holding a bag of chips beside a stack of metal cubes, with a vending machine full of colorful snacks and drinks in the background.

🧠 Experiment Overview Anthropic’s research team partnered with Andon Labs to unleash Claude 3.7 Sonnet on a month-long trial running a small vending machine “shop” in their San Francisco office. Tasked with inventory management, pricing, customer interaction, and profit-making—but with minimal human intervention—Claude was equipped with Slack integration, specialized email tools, and startup funds to […]