AI NewsThe $100,000 Experiment: What Happens When an AI Agent Manages a Store with Its Own Credit Card?

The $100,000 Experiment: What Happens When an AI Agent Manages a Store with Its Own Credit Card?

6:15 PM IST · April 27, 2026

The world's first artificial intelligence (AI) store, which is entirely designed, managed, and run by an AI agent, is here. Even five years ago, the previous sentence would have sounded like it was taken from science fiction; however, today it is reality. A San Francisco-based startup, Andon Labs, designed an AI agent with all the necessary tools required to run a physical store, and gave it the keys to a retail store and a corporate credit card with $100,000 (roughly Rs. 94.25 lakh) in the bank.