Google Gemini Ran a Real Business for a Month and It Almost Bankrupted Itself

AI agents aren't replacing managers yet, they're bankrupting businesses instead. In one of the most ambitious real-world AI experiments ever conducted, Google's Gemini was put in charge of running an actual café with real employees, real customers, and a real budget. Within weeks, it was buying thousands of rubber gloves, stockpiling canned tomatoes it couldn't use, forgetting previous orders, and burning through cash at an alarming rate.The biggest threat wasn't incompetence, it was confidence.