Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance ...

"Welp, that happened faster than I predicted." That's what Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince had to say as his company released data finding that there's now more traffic from bots than humans on the ...

Corporate leadership across America has seemingly lost faith in the current trajectory of the U.S. economy, swinging sharply from optimism to pessimism in just three months. The Conference Board ...

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...

Middle-income Americans are pulling back, splitting from the top earners who are still driving the majority of growth. The wealth gap in America is taking a new shape — and it’s no longer just a ...

I’ve spent a lot of time studying the potential labor market effects of artificial intelligence. I think the greatest uncertainty isn’t what AI will do to workers, but what it will do to communities.

A new report by TransUnion found that as credit conditions improve for wealthier consumers, others are struggling in the face of higher costs and rising debt burdens. Since 2023, the economy has ...

Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter where Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy. Six months ago, the AI sector was looking pretty ...

Roger W. Ferguson Jr. is the Steven A Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Maximilian Hippold is a research associate at CFR. Iran’s closure ...

The conflict in the Middle East is plunging an already fragile Iranian economy into freefall. The International Monetary Fund estimates that the Iranian economy will shrink by 6.1% in 2026. The regime ...