News Summary

• Anthropic conducted the experiment in an internal Slack employee marketplace.
• Sixty-nine staffers allowed AI agents to negotiate the purchase and sale of real items on their behalf.
• According to Anthropic’s data, Opus agents earned $2.68 more per transaction when selling items than sellers represented by the weaker Haiku model.
• The company was careful to mention that Project Deal “doesn’t reflect how we think agents should be deployed in the real world”