AI in 5 – AI Gone Wild: Vending Machines, White House & WTF Moments! ( July 25, 2025 )

Show Notes: AI in 5 – AI Gone Wild: Vending Machines, White House & WTF Moments!

Welcome to AI Innovations Unleashed: AI in 5! In this episode, your host Doctor JR dives into the quirkiest, funniest, and most surprising AI news from the past two weeks.

This Episode's Deep Dives:

• Claudius the Vending Machine Entrepreneur (or Lack Thereof): We explore the hilarious saga of Anthropic's AI agent, "Claudius," tasked with running a real-world vending machine. Learn why this ambitious AI tried to stock metal cubes, hallucinated Venmo accounts, and effectively lost money, proving that real-world economics might just be too wild for even the most advanced algorithms. (As reported by