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And so whenever I get one of those notifications, I know I’m going to have a good time there. kevin roose[LAUGHS]: I actually don’t think I could’ve told you what IBM stood for. kevin rooseSo I’ve thought a lot and written a lot about how and when AI actually is a threat to jobs. The third category is just the jobs that I think are going to be protected, the jobs that we won’t let AI do. But I don’t actually think the speed of it matters at all.

Box customers testing the product have already experienced “revolutionary” productivity gains, Box CEO Aaron Levie told Reuters. He cited a Box customer whose employees were reviewing tens and thousands of files manually. The new AI features were able to do it automatically “within a matter of seconds.”Box partnered with OpenAI, the AI startup backed by Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) behind the chatbot sensation ChatGPT, to build the AI enhancements. While Box is initially building its AI offering with OpenAI’s technology, the goal is to allow customers to select among different AI providers, he said. Box said the new AI features include the ability to summarize financial documents, surface insights from customer surveys and tailor onboarding documents to a specific customer's needs.

☆ Box CEO on 'Box A.I.' and potential downsides of artificial intelligence
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBox CEO on 'Box A.I.' and potential downsides of artificial intelligenceAaron Levie, Box CEO, joins 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to discuss the company's new integration with ChatGPT ‘Box AI’.

☆ He's played chess with Peter Thiel, sparred with Elon Musk and once, supposedly, stopped a plane crash: Inside Sam Altman's world, where truth is stranger than fiction
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Melia Russell | Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +41 min

But, "you do at some point need to start having contact with reality," he told Insider. The plan was still only a rough sketch, Blania told Insider, but that didn't seem to matter to his host. "He always wanted to understand everything at a very deep level," Thrun told Insider in an email. (When asked about guns, Altman told Insider he'd been "happy to have one both times my home was broken into while I was there.") When asked about this, Altman told Insider in an email: "i can guess what that's about; these stories grow crazily inflated over the years of getting re-told!

☆ Sam Altman is building his utopia, whether you want it or not
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Melia Russell | Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +41 min

Altman told Insider, "We debate our approach frequently and carefully." "I don't think anyone can lose your dad young and wish he didn't have more time with him," Altman told Insider. Altman told Insider that his thinking had evolved since those posts. (When asked about guns, Altman told Insider he'd been "happy to have one both times my home was broken into while I was there.") When asked about this, Altman told Insider in an email: "i can guess what that's about; these stories grow crazily inflated over the years of getting re-told!

☆ Box CEO: We're hearing that digital transformation remains a core focus for our customers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBox CEO: We're hearing that digital transformation remains a core focus for our customersBox CEO Aaron Levie joins 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to discuss his company's earnings and how A.I. can change the tech sector.

☆ We are focused on our organic roadmap, says Box CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe are focused on our organic roadmap, says Box CEOAaron Levie, Box CEO, joins 'TechCheck' to break down his outlook for the company in 2023, after Box was up 18 percent in 2022.

He lost a Twitter poll asking whether he should remain as CEO. Musk reinstated a handful of banned journalists Saturday after he conducted a Twitter poll asking users whether he should uphold the ban. Following backlash, Twitter also quickly rolled back its decision to ban users’ promotion of links to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post accounts. Won’t happen again.”But after all that, some users are skeptical that Twitter is a platform they want to remain on. “Should I run Twitter ?” Snoop Dogg wrote in a Twitter poll Sunday.

Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their accounts on at least seven other major social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social, the platform announced Sunday. "We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter," Twitter Support tweeted Sunday. Twitter’s rule change left out some major social media platforms, most notably TikTok. Other social media companies have few, if any, rules about users’ posting links to their accounts on other platforms.

☆ What is ChatGPT? The AI chatbot dominating social media with its frighteningly good essays
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

OpenAI last week opened up access to ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that interacts with users in an eerily convincing and conversational way. On Monday, Open AI’s co-founder Sam Altman, a prominent Silicon Valley investor, said on Twitter that ChatGPT crossed one million users. It comes from the same company behind DALL-E, which generates a seemingly limitless range of images in response to prompts from users. If you plan to be outside, you should wear a light jacket or sweater, long pants, and closed-toe shoes,” ChatGPT responded. Possible issuesWhile ChatGPT successfully fielded a variety of questions submitted by CNN, some responses were noticeably off.

☆ Box CEO: Fortune 500 Companies Are Holding Their Own Against Digital Upstarts
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-05 | by ( Tom Loftus | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +4 min

A decade ago, the big bet in Silicon Valley was that some of the world’s brawniest corporations would be disrupted by nimble, digital-first startups. Mr. Levie: I actually think a large percentage of the Fortune 500 has done this well. And yet I would argue that a large percentage of the Fortune 500 responded well to that threat. Mr. Levie: What Silicon Valley is very good at is delivering world-class digital experiences to consumers and then disrupting entire markets because of that. PREVIEWWSJ: The Fortune 500 is holding its own.

☆ Box CEO explains how the cloud company boosted revenue by $246 million amid the downturn by paying closer attention to its biggest enterprise deals
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-01 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Public cloud companies are seeing plummeting stock prices amid the market downturn. Some cloud companies, like the $4.61 billion cloud-storage firm Box, aren't worried about the dip. It's been a tough year for public cloud companies. The $4.61 billion firm announced a $246 million increase in revenue in its second-quarter earnings, a 15% revenue increase compared to the previous year. To stay profitable, Box cut cloud-infrastructure costs by moving its operations to the public cloud, according to Levie.

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