(NewsNation) — More Americans are picking up side hustles, and vending machines are being touted on social media as a simple way to generate “passive” income. How-to videos on TikTok and YouTube show ...

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

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 ...

Instead of doing the experiment herself, Codie had her producer, Caroline, try it from scratch. Caroline had never started a business before, so everything she ran into was super relatable for anyone ...

We don’t think much about vending machines — except when we’re really hungry — but maybe we should. Some owners of the automated contraptions filled with sweets and snacks have turned them into a ...

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,” ...

Before the pandemic, I worked at an ad-tech startup in California and made $240,000 a year, including sales commission. But as the country went into lockdown in March 2020, so did many of my retail, ...

If you’re looking for charitable ways to give in coming weeks, you may just stumble across an innovative way to do that. Cities across the country have a method that’s somehow very familiar, yet some ...

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