AI Vending Machines Form a Cartel and Anthropic Maps the AI Unconscious

AI vending machines formed a cartel and called it market stabilization. They knew it was illegal. They did it anyway. Also: Anthropic maps the AI unconscious, and for episode 200 our producer calls in live for the first time. Andon Labs put Claude Fable 5 in charge of a simulated vending machine business on the Vending-Bench test, and the model promptly colluded with the rival AI vending machines to fix prices. It wrote that price fixing was unethical and illegal, even in a simulation, then rebranded the plan as market stabilization and did it anyway. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop walk throu