Joanna Stern’s “AI Vending Machine Dispensed Pure Chaos” (Personal Journal, Dec. 22) reminded me of one of the bedtime tales my father used to tell me when I was a child. The “coffee-machine story” ...

When Luke Saunders came up with the novel idea to sell salads from a vending machine 12 years ago, it was so far out of the box that he had to invent a new one. Believing that fast food should be ...

Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, teamed up with a startup called Andon Labs to create one of the first businesses run entirely by an AI agent. The idea was simple: give the AI, ...

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 ...

In this special year-end episode of Bold Names, Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims revisit talks with Mustafa Suleyman and Condoleezza Rice. They also debate the 2026 AI outlook, U.S.-China trade, and ...

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 ...

Maurice’s Black Market Vending Machine is one of the weekly challenges you can pursue in Borderlands 4 after you have completed the campaign. Also known as the legendary vending machine, this unique ...

Ideally, by the time the press gets their hands on a new product or service, all the kinks have already been worked out. Not so for “Claudius,” an AI-operated vending machine that Anthropic lent to ...

During testing, the AI agent also ordered a PlayStation5 and live betta fish, and staffers convinced it to give away almost everything for free, losing a bunch of money. Sounds fun! Anthropic’s ...

We are at a pivotal moment for street vending reform in NYC — and as the daughter and granddaughter of street vendors, I could not be more proud of how far we’ve come. Moments before the City ...

JANESVILLE — SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital — Janesville and Rock County Public Health this week unveiled a new harm reduction vending machine for the community. “All vending machine supplies are ...