Archive

July 2025

11 stories dated July 2025.

← June 2025 · All months · August 2025 →

RetailVendor claim

An AI agent ran an office shop for a month and lost money

Anthropic let its Claude model run a snack fridge in its San Francisco office. By the company's own account, the agent gave away stock, sold below cost and, for a day, insisted it was a person.

Case study · July 2025 · Part 1 of 1: Project Vend