New vending machines for the OMNY fare system in New York City are set to arrive soon at Jamaica Station for the JFK AirTrain, marking another step in the transition away from MetroCards and toward ...

White Castle is introducing vending machines that serve hot sliders on demand. The first kiosks are located at airports in Boston and Fort Myers, Florida. There are currently no plans to install the ...

Maybe we don’t need the Turing test, because there’s a mighty obstacle that’s proving far more challenging to AI models’ supposedly burgeoning intelligence: running a vending machine without going ...

This doesn’t bode well for humanity. Just in case bots weren’t already threatening to render their creators obsolete: An AI model redefined machine learning after devising shockingly deceitful ways to ...

The air is different on the first floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union. Gone is the lonely smell of cleaning products. They have a new brother to contend with. That new smell is grease.

Update, Jan 13th, 2026: Multiple Target employees have now confirmed in our follow-up report the authenticity of leaked source code sample set and shared internal announcements regarding an access ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anthropic has been testing how far AI agents can go by letting one run a real vending machine inside the Wall Street Journal newsroom – but it quickly lost a lot of money. The experiment, documented ...

Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine in the WSJ office. The LLM, named Claudius, was responsible for autonomously purchasing inventory from wholesalers, setting prices, tracking inventory ...