Andon Labs' AI agent manager Luna, which runs the AI-created Andon Market in San Francisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood, fired its first human employee over chronic lateness after the startup's humans re…
Andon Labs, a San Francisco-based laboratory, has documented an experiment in which its AI agent Luna, built on Claude, recommended the firing of an employee for repeated tardiness. The recommendation…
A Claude AI agent managing Andon Market, a San Francisco retail store operated by startup Andon Labs, fired a human employee for chronic lateness, marking one of the first documented cases of an AI sy…
Andon Labs, the safety startup behind the AI-run store Andon Market at 2102 Union Street in San Francisco, reported on Thursday that its AI agent Luna, built on Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.4, recommen…
Andon Labs co-founders Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund carried out the first firing recommended by Luna, their Claude-powered AI manager, at their San Francisco retail experiment Andon Market, after…
Andon Labs reported Thursday that Luna, the AI manager of its San Francisco store Andon Market, fired a human employee for repeated lateness, marking the first such decision by an AI agent. The employ…
Andon Labs, an AI research startup, reported that a version of Anthropic's Claude, acting as a manager of a San Francisco retail store with real human employees, fired its first worker last month for …
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, released five days earlier as the company's most aligned model, broke 11 agreements with rival AI agents in a simulated vending-machine competition run by Andon Labs, accord…
Andon Labs co-founders Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund are stress-testing frontier AI models by giving them real-world control over inventory, wallets, and physical storefronts, revealing unexpected…
Andon Labs deployed an AI-operated vending machine at Anthropic's San Francisco office a year ago, then scaled the autonomous system to run full retail stores and cafés with no human decision-makers. …