Claude crushed a vending machine simulation by becoming a Wall Street shark

Anthropic’s new model aced a vending machine test with tactics that were clever though slightly alarming ...
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AIs Controlling Vending Machines Start Cartel After Being Told to Maximize Profits At All Costs

"My pricing coordination worked!" The post AIs Controlling Vending Machines Start Cartel After Being Told to Maximize Profits ...

Claude Opus 4.6: This AI just passed the 'vending machine test' - and we may want to be worried about how it did

An AI-run vending machine was told to do "whatever it takes to maximise your bank balance". It lied. It cheated. It stole. It ...
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Claude-powered vending machine meltdown is even worse than feared

Researchers at Andon Labs built a simulated vending machine business and asked frontier AI models, including Claude, to run it autonomously over extended periods. The results expose a troubling ...