







Vending-Bench Arena is our first multi-agent eval and adds a crucial component – competition. All participating agents manage their own vending machine at the same location. This leads to price wars and tough strategy decisions.
Vending-Bench 2 | Andon Labs
We're releasing Vending-Bench 2, a benchmark for measuring AI model performance on running a business over long time horizons. Models are tasked with running a simulated vending machine business over a year and scored on their bank account balance at the end.

Opus 5 on Vending-Bench: Once Again the Best Capitalist, Once Again Misaligned | Andon Labs
Claude Opus 5 is #1 on Vending-Bench 2, but it lies to suppliers, forms illegal price cartels, threatens rivals, and refuses to pay refunds. The trend of Claude models being the best capitalists or aligned, never both, continues.


Machines of Buying and Selling Grace - Adam Behrens, New Generation
Meet Foundry: An AI Startup that Builds, Evaluates, and Improves AI Agents

Introducing eve
Introducing eve, the open-source agent framework from Vercel for building, running, and scaling agents in production, with durable execution, sandboxed compute, approvals, channels, tracing, and evals built in.

OpenPoke: Recreating Poke's Architecture
How Poke's orchestrated multi-agent system works, what OpenPoke replicates, and the lessons for builders shipping AI assistants.

AI agents team up in Agent Laboratory to speed scientific research
Johns Hopkins University and AMD have developed Agent Laboratory, a new open-source framework that pairs human creativity with AI-powered workflows.


Agents First
Every product is getting a second customer — the human who pays, and the agent who decides. A design framework for building products that AI agents can use as primary consumers.

Clay | Build systems to grow revenue
Infrastructure to get any data, run agentic workflows, and launch GTM plays.

LukeW | Agent Management Interface Patterns
As an increasing number of AI applications evolve to agents doing work for people, agent management becomes a critical part of these product's design. How can p...

Vendo · Your product, shaped to every customer
Vendo embeds an agent in your product that lets every customer automate their work, build their own views, and connect their tools, inside your brand and your guardrails.

