Digital banking has gone from novelty to necessity with more and more people using their banking apps as their finance command centers.
Why it's important: Chase technologists work continuously to improve the Chase Mobile® app, testing, refining and experimenting to find new ways to personalize experiences for customers.
The Chase Mobile® app combines all elements of a customer's financial life in one place and supports ongoing personalization at scale. With a new Chase Mobile® app release every two weeks, Chase is elevating customer experiences with its digital banking tools through:
Delivery robots roll through cities with ease — but can't open doors or push elevator buttons, driving new AI that lets them ask humans for help.
Why it matters: People and robots will increasingly interact in the real world — at work, stores and even on the street. But the technology needs to be seamless to avoid chaos and frustration.
The Commerce Department on Wednesday is opening a call for proposals to help U.S. companies bundle and export end-to-end AI systems to international markets.
Why it matters: The Trump administration's AI strategy is based partly on a bet that the best way to win the AI race is to embed U.S. tech deep inside other countries' digital infrastructure.
SpaceX has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, permultiplereports, with expectations that Elon Musk's company will go public this summer.
Why it matters: This could be the largest IPO ever, eclipsing oil giant Saudi Aramco in 2019.
There's a big shift happening in Big Tech as the AI transition enters a new era.
Why it matters: Investors are changing the way they price these superstar stocks, but judging by what happened in the market Tuesday, they are not totally sure how to do so.
Lockheed Martin plans to quadruple its output of Precision Strike Missiles, used for the first time in the Iran war.
Why it matters: Questions about production capacity and stockpile health haunt the U.S. military, especially as its offensive alongside Israel breaksthe one-month mark. And PrSM's first-ever employment has already drawn scrutiny.
The U.S. is dedicating significant amounts of firepower to the Middle East as it wrestles with Iran. Some of it — billions of dollars' worth, in fact — will not be returning.
Pioneering a whole new class of car is hard enough, but musician will.i.am tells Axios he also wants his Trinity three-wheeled electric vehicle to be an AI agent, helping its driver plow through emails or plot out strategy.
Why it matters: Trinity is the epitome of the kind of ambition sweeping Silicon Valley: that AI can turn even a single-seat vehicle into a platform — and that building it can revive left-behind communities.
Women are less likely to use AI at work — and even when they do, they get less recognition for the effort, finds a new survey from Lean In, the women's advocacy group.
Why it matters: Right now, AI ability is the skill many employers say they value most.
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Stock: Getty Images
Growing up as a scrawny Star Trek nerd in the '90s, I learned pretty quickly to hide that part of myself to avoid being bullied just because I knew a little Klingon (Qapla'!).
Now, approaching my 40s, I've learned to let my geek flag fly — and I'm glad for it.
The big picture: Part of what makes this easier is that the world has changed, and yes, I'm older. But geek culture is mainstream culture now.
