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The Morning After: Don’t let an AI run a vending machine
The biggest news stories this morning: Anthropic's AI can't run a vending machine, Canada walks back its big tech tax, and OnePlus gets accused.
You can probably guess what happened next: The bot missed easy opportunities to make a fast buck, handed silly discounts to employees and lost a ton of money. It hallucinated payment details, tried to fire the humans who helped restock its shelves and attempted to contact building security, insisting that it had a flesh-and-blood body. Two lawmakers have asked the Department of Commerce to investigate smartphone maker OnePlus, alleging it sends user data to Chinese servers.
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