Vending machines used to be simple transactional boxes. A consumer inserted money, pressed a button, collected a product, and ...

Farmer’s Fridge now has a 100,000-square-foot kitchen near Midway Airport and thousands of locations across 20 states selling salads to millions of customers.

A 16-year-old made lip gloss at home during the pandemic. By 22, Taylor Shealey runs five businesses and waited two years for ...

Sweet Robo's ChocoPrint 3D chocolate printer debuts at CES 2026, creating custom designs on demand and turning vending into ...

An AI agent was given the simple task of running a vending machine. It ended in chaos, confusion, and over $1,000 in losses.

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

A Wall Street Journal office experiment using an Anthropic-powered vending machine reportedly ended in losses after staff manipulated the AI into free giveaways and questionable “purchases,” ...

Tracking down Maurice’s vending machine is no easy task, though, as similar to Destiny’s Xur, the Black Market Vending Machine changes its location weekly on Friday, and it’s up to you to track it ...

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 ...