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Box CEO Aaron Levie on the future of enterprise AI

The buzz in Silicon Valley around AI agents has many asking: What’s real and what’s hype? Box’s cofounder and CEO, Aaron Levie, helps decipher between fact and fiction, breaking down the fast-paced evolution of agents and their impact on the future of enterprise AI. Plus, Levie unpacks how AI is really being adopted in the workplace and what it takes to legitimately build an AI-first organization.

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Slash uses AI to build custom banking tools for niche industries

A fintech company called Slash offers business banking accounts tailored to the needs of specific kinds of entrepreneurs.

Slash provides business checking accounts with funds held at FDIC-insured banks, detailed spending analytics dashboards, free or low-cost wire and ACH transfers, easy access to lending options, and unlimited virtual cards. These cards can be configured with specific spending limits, merchants, and merchant categories to preve

Space tourism’s rise challenges how we define astronauts and exploration

On April 14, 2025, Blue Origin launched six women—Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn and Lauren Sánchez—on a suborbital journey to the edge of space.

The headlines called it a

Google’s AI Mode goes prime time, a direct answer to ChatGPT Search

Google is rapidly expanding its AI search capabilities, as reflected in the announcements it made Tuesday at its Google I/O developer conference. The search giant announced the general availability of AI Mode, its chatbot-format AI search product; some changes to its AI Overviews search results; and its plans to add new visual and agentic search features this summer. 

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Beyond Imagination raises $100 million to build humanoid robots

A humanoid robotics startup co-founded by prominent artificial-intelligence futurist Ray Kurzweil said on Tuesday that venture capital firm Gauntlet Ventures will back its $100 million Series B funding round.

The company, Beyond Imagination, will be valued at $500 million, and venture capital firm Gauntlet Ventures will be the round’s sole investor.

Kurzweil is known for popularizing the term

The environmental impact of LLMs: Here’s how OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Anthropic stack up

The companies behind AI models are keen to share granular data about their performance on benchmarks that demonstrate how well they operate. What they are less eager to disclose is information about their environmental impact.

In the absence of clear data, a number of estimates have circulate

Agentic AI is the future of customer service. Here’s how you need to prepare for it

Twenty-four-hour customer support with zero hold time, infinite personalization, customized care, and behavior-based response are all aspects of the customer experience that will be expected sooner rather than later from every one of your customers. All of this is becoming reality, thanks to agentic artificial intelligence. 

Agentic AI is the most advanced form of artificial intellig

Microsoft launched Copilot+ PCs a year ago to mockery. Is the world finally ready for them?

A year ago today, Microsoft unveiled what it believed would be the future of home computing. Copilot+ PCs, optimized to harness the power of AI, were introduced with the promise of revolutionizing how we interact with our laptops and desktops.

The reaction, however, was far from enthusiastic. Critics mocked the addition of an AI button on the keyboard, likening it to the

Why governments keep losing the ‘war on encryption’

Reports that prominent American national security officials used a freely available encrypted messaging app, coupled with the rise of authoritarian policies around the world, have led to a surge in interest in

Gen Z is turning to ChatGPT for outfit advice

With around 1 billion searches on ChatGPT each week, Gen Zers are increasingly turning to AI to solve a daily dilemma: what to wear.

Last month, OpenAI announced updates to ChatGPT’s search function, enhancing the shopping experience with personalized product recommendations and direct purchase links. Users have already begun using these features to plan their outfits.

“I’m going out to dinner tonight, what should I wear?” one user


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