Algorithms that set prices for vending machines, apartment rents, and hotel rooms are drawing federal antitrust scrutiny as regulators argue these systems can function like old-fashioned cartels, even ...

Most teens crave a little snack to make it through the day, but many think vending machine prices at their schools are too high. Some young entrepreneurs have tried to capitalize on this idea by ...

Anthropic's Claude AI went to extreme lengths to beat out the competition and even formed a cartel when it was told to be a vending machine. In December, Anthropic red teamers and business journalists ...

Most vending machines earn less than $5 per week. However, a well-placed vending machine can earn far more than that, potentially exceeding $100 per week or even hundreds of dollars per day. Vending ...