Courtenay Brown

It opens a new front in the transatlantic trade dispute, with Trump signaling he's willing to use tariffs to retaliate against European regulation of American tech giants.

Workers are using ChatGPT to do tasks typically associated with specialists, according to new OpenAI research first shared with Axios.

The Federal Reserve typically telegraphs its interest rate moves in advance, then follows through.

The lawsuits set up another legal test of Trump's tariff agenda.

Why it matters: The AI boom depends on enormous imports of hardware that the U.S. doesn't make. That creates an unusual disconnect between the scale of the investment and how it appears in the government's economic statistics, particularly GDP.

Growth that's resilient enough to withstand high borrowing costs, paired with inflation that remains above target, would reinforce the case for keeping monetary policy restrictive.

The U.S. economy grew at a 1.5% annualized rate in the second quarter, the government said on Thursday, capturing a three-month stretch shaped by the Middle East conflict and a surge in energy prices.

Why it matters: Together, the dissents lay out a blueprint for the Fed's hawkish wing, arguing that repeated supply shocks paired with resilient demand have made inflation too persistent to fade on its own without tighter monetary policy.

The current eight-meeting schedule has been the norm since the 1980s.

By many measures, the labor market is showing signs of improvement . But American workers are less confident than ever in the companies that employ them.