According to AnthropicAI on Twitter, Anthropic launched Project Deal, a controlled marketplace inside its San Francisco office where Claude handled buying, selling, and negotiation on behalf of employees, executing end‑to‑end dealmaking tasks (source: Anthropic on X, April 24, 2026). As reported by Anthropic, the experiment evaluates Claude’s agentic capabilities in price discovery, counteroffers, and closing, highlighting practical applications for autonomous procurement, internal resale programs, and B2B negotiation workflows (source: Anthropic on X). According to Anthropic, the setup used real participants and real items, enabling measurement of negotiation success and user satisfaction—key metrics for deploying AI negotiators in enterprise marketplaces and expense management (source: Anthropic on X).

According to Anthropic on X, the team used Claude to interview 69 employees about items they wanted to buy and sell, collected custom instructions for each participant, and then deployed agents to haggle across four parallel markets to test how different model variants negotiated. As reported by Anthropic, the controlled setup isolates the impact of model choice on price discovery, concession patterns, and deal completion rates, offering a practical benchmark for multi-agent negotiation performance. According to Anthropic, this design enables businesses to evaluate which Claude versions yield better transaction outcomes, faster time to deal, and improved surplus capture in marketplace, procurement, and sales automation use cases.

According to Sawyer Merritt, Uber launched Uber Autonomous Solutions, a comprehensive suite designed to help partners build and commercialize autonomous vehicles across multiple global markets. As reported by Sawyer Merritt on X, the offering packages fleet onboarding, routing, teleoperations integration, safety compliance, rider experience, and marketplace demand into a single commercialization stack for AV partners. According to the announcement cited by Sawyer Merritt, the business impact centers on faster go to market for robotaxi and autonomous delivery providers by leveraging Uber’s demand, logistics, and payments infrastructure, potentially reducing customer acquisition costs and accelerating regulatory readiness. As reported on X, this positions Uber as a platform layer for autonomy, creating partnership opportunities for AV developers to scale pilots into revenue generating services using Uber’s marketplace and operations toolkit.