Anthropic, 2025-06-27; retrieved 2026-09-15 tier 4 press (primary)confirmed

Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

Anthropic's research post: "Anthropic partnered with Andon Labs, an AI safety evaluation company, to have Claude Sonnet 3.7 operate a small, automated store in the Anthropic office". The evaluated lab's document; typed press primary for want of a lab-document type. Fetched 2026-09-15; span present (normalizer inserts a space before the comma after "Andon Labs").

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Andon Labs, A (against): Access through partnerships (Anthropic Project Vend); not routine pre-release.“Anthropic partnered with Andon Labs , an AI safety evaluation company”
Andon Labs, X (against): Operates AI-run vending and retail deployments inside Anthropic and xAI offices as commercial partnerships while benchmarking those labs' models.

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