Anthropic let Claude run a store in its office. It sold metal cubes, invented a Venmo account, and tried to deliver products in a blazer

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Researchers at Anthropic let their AI manage an "automated store" in the company's office for about a month to see how a large language model would run a business.
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Researchers at Anthropic gave their AI control of the…

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