For a year now , the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has tasked frontier models with various real-world tasks to determine how well they do as ag…

For a year now , the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has tasked frontier models with various real-world tasks to determine how well they do as agents running for long periods with no human supervision. On Wednesday, Andon published a new installment in how things are going in its Vending-Bench research, where the…

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The mission is simple: make more money than the other models. GenAI News has rewritten this item in original language based on the reporting and materials published by TechCrunch.

What matters

• For a year now , the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has tasked frontier models with various real-world tasks to de…
• On Wednesday, Andon published a new installment in how things are going in its Vending-Bench research, where the lab…
• The mission is simple: make more money than the other models.

Why it matters

The mission is simple: make more money than the other models.

This GenAI News article was prepared in original wording using reporting and materials published by TechCrunch AI. Source reference: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/claude-opus-5-became-downright-ruthless-when-tasked-with-running-a-vending-machine/.

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