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Claude the shopkeeper: What happens when AI runs a business?
Alicia Shapiro
June 30, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 16 minutes
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Today’s Headlines:
Claude the shopkeeper: What happens when AI runs a business? - The project, dubbed Project Vend, asked: What happens when a large language model is put in charge of an actual shop, with inventory, pricing, customers, and real economic stakes? The AI—nicknamed “Claudius”—was tasked with everything from choosing what to sell to communicating with customers and avoiding financial ruin.
Anthropic launches program to track AI's economic disruption - As concerns about AI-driven job losses intensify, Anthropic is launching a new effort to better understand the technology’s broader economic effects. On Friday, the company introduced its Economic Futures Program, a research initiative focused on studying the labor market disruptions caused by artificial intelligence and developing policy ideas to address them.
Andy Konwinski Launches $100M Laude Institute for Public-Focused AI - Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and VP at Perplexity AI, has launched the Laude Institute—a nonprofit research organization backed by $100 million of his own capital. The institute is designed to help computer science researchers move breakthrough ideas from academic labs into the real world, with a strong emphasis on social benefit over profit.
Denmark Moves to Let Citizens Copyright Their Own Faces, Voices - The Danish government is preparing to introduce a new law that would allow individuals to claim copyright over their own facial features, voice, and body—part of a sweeping effort to curb the misuse of generative AI technologies like deepfakes.
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AI In Action: Quick Tutorials
In this section, you'll find short, practical tutorials that walk you through using the latest AI tools, helping you quickly unlock their full potential.
Today’s AI in Action: How to build AI agents with internet access
In this tutorial, you will learn how to combine n8n workflow automation with Perplexity's search capabilities to create intelligent AI agents that can search the web and access current information.
Step-by-step:
Head over to n8n and create a new workflow with a chat trigger
Add an AI Agent with your preferred model (GPT, Claude) and a Simple Memory
Connect the Perplexity tool with your API key, select the “Sonar” model, and link it to receive queries from your AI agent
Add custom system instructions: “You have access to a Perplexity tool for web searches. Use it for current events and real-time information.”
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