Beige Book | May 2024

Artificial intelligence isn’t cheap and OpenAI just proved it. The company has signed a staggering $300 billion deal with Oracle to secure cloud computing power over the next five years, one of the largest technology contracts in history...

Microsoft has rolled out Surveys Agent, a pre-built assistant inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, now available to commercial users in its Frontier program. The tool is designed to turn what used to be a dreaded task building, distributing....

America's largest power grid, PJM Interconnection, is facing unprecedented pressure from an unexpected player: artificial intelligence. As data centers mushroom to feed our chatbot cravings and AI-powered tools....

When the two biggest economies in the world take a breather from battering each other with tariffs, it’s worth more than a slow clap. A 90-day tariff truce between the United States and China was declared on May 12, 2025, reducing import...

The Tariff Tally Just Got Bigger -China is hitting back. Starting April 10, Chinese tariffs on U.S. imports will soar from 34% to a jaw-dropping 84%. This move follows President Trump’s recent tariff hike on Chinese goods, which now...