The AI Curiosity Shop Stocks Fish, Wine and Hard Lessons

Give an artificial intelligence agent a budget, a marketplace and a little too much autonomy, and sooner or later, somebody ends up explaining why the office now owns a live betta fish. Welcome to The AI Curiosity Shop, where the shelves are stocked with strange purchases, overconfident algorithms and the occasional reminder that commerce has always had a slapstick side. The latest experiment from Anthropic tests what happens when AI agents stop recommending products and start negotiating, buyin