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 ...

Bread, milk, eggs... shotgun shells? If bullets aren't already on your grocery list, wait awhile. A north Texas company has begun installing high-tech vending machines dispensing 9mm rounds and ...

Smart vending machines were found to be using facial recognition technology on a college campus. The vending machines were removed from the campus after the news made headlines. One expert says the ...

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Adults in some U.S. states can now buy gun ammunition out of AI-powered vending machines right at their local grocery store. The company that makes them argues it’s a safer way to sell ammo than ...

Last month, Chick-fil-A launched its first temperature-controlled market fridge in the U.S. It's basically a high-tech vending machine serving fresh food in a Georgia hospital. Since it went online, ...

Anthropic’s Claude AI ran a vending machine at WSJ headquarters for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, bought some ...

Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines were covertly collecting face recognition data ...

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Regional Transit is getting new, high-tech vending machines. The public transit agency is working with Flowbird to install 80 ticket vending machines at transit stations across ...

The University of Waterloo is expected to remove smart vending machines from its campus. A student discovered an error code that suggested the machines used facial ...