💰 AI agents are becoming major users of economic data

AI agents now account for roughly half of all visits to FRED, the St. Louis Fed’s economic data portal, according to Bloomberg.

That changes what a data platform like FRED needs to be designed for. Humans see a chart alongside its source, notes and footnotes. An AI agent can simply extract the numbers, interpret them and rebuild them into an answer, potentially leaving important context and provenance behind.

As more AI systems become the middleman between people and economic data, making sure they preserve where numbers came from could become just as important as the numbers themselves.

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