As we close out our final Box Community Digest of 2025, we’re excited to welcome a new year filled with even more innovation and momentum! This edition is packed with fresh updates across the Box ecosystem, along with upcoming events you won’t want to miss as we head into 2026.
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🚀 Your front-row seat to Aaron Levie’s latest insights, bold ideas, and game-changing updates.
“AI agents will take capabilities that were previously extremely scarce and make them near infinitely available and abundant.”
— Aaron Levie, Box CEO
How will this revolution unfold in 2026? Our executives anticipate that the year ahead will bring:
- Strategic “hero agents” over scattered tools
- Developers as orchestrators, not just coders
- AI teammates across every department
- Security as competitive advantage
- Organizational redesign to unlock human potential
📣 Read our full executive predictions: Getting real: How Box executives see AI changing in 2026
Your day‑to‑day experience matters. The way you use Box, the features you rely on, and the enhancements you’re hoping for all play a role in shaping where we go next. Your insights help us create smarter, more intuitive solutions for the entire community.
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For Vornado Realty Trust, AI is the new utility powering the way buildings run, deals get made, and work gets done.
In our latest "AI First" podcast, Box CCO, Jon Herstein (
In 2025, enterprise AI got real.
We moved from chatbots to autonomous agents. From prompt crafting to designing entire AI environments. From bolting on security to building it from the ground up.
In our latest AI Explainer episode, Box PMM, Meena Ganesh, breaks down the five shifts that defined enterprise AI's coming-of-age:
- Agent engineering replaced prompt engineering as the critical discipline
- AI evolved from assistants to autonomous agents handling complex workflows
- Security became architectural, not an afterthought
- Model flexibility emerged as foundational infrastructure
- Trust became the make-or-break factor for deployment at scale
📣 Dive into our latest blog to find out more: From assistants to agents: The transformative AI shifts that defined 2025
🌟 We’re highlighting Box professionals whose contributions helped deepen understanding, spark meaningful conversations, and move our community forward. 🌟
💫 @andriy box @msyu Box
💬 Hear the latest on Box Drive | Community Roundtable
Thank you for delivering such a thoughtful walkthrough of the latest Box Drive enhancements and the roadmap ahead. The discussions (from the rebuilt Windows architecture to upcoming features shaped directly by customer feedback) helped our community understand how these updates will improve everyday workflows. We also appreciate the engaging Q&A, where you addressed customer challenges with transparency and depth.
And a special thank‑you to our customer guests whose insights made the discussion even more valuable.
💫 @Meena Ganesh Box
🎬 AI Explainer Series - New Episode: Five Shifts That Defined Enterprise AI in 2025
A big thank‑you for sharing the year‑end recap of the Box AI Explainer Series and breaking down the five major shifts that defined enterprise AI in 2025. With millions of views and dozens of episodes, this has become a trusted resource for understanding how AI is moving into real‑world deployment. We appreciate your continued dedication to educating and inspiring the Box Community as we look ahead to 2026.
🌟 A heartfelt thank you to our incredible community members, partners, and Boxers for your unwavering enthusiasm, insightful questions, and vibrant conversations. Your contributions make the Box Community a dynamic and inspiring place to connect and grow together. 🌟
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🎬 AI Explainer Series - New Episode: Five Shifts That Defined Enterprise AI in 2025
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Why Vornado put AI at the center of its digital strategy | Box AI-First Podcast EP 12
Stay up-to-date with the latest innovations and updates by subscribing to our announcements and release notes. 📩
| New productivity enhancements for Box Notes Launched | Box Notes now includes a set of powerful enhancements designed to make writing, navigating, and collaborating faster and more intuitive.
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| Collaborating on video files in Box (Dec 2025) GA | New updates that bring powerful review and feedback tools will soon be available to your video files in Box. Teams can now leave time‑stamped comments, draw on‑screen annotations (freeform or square), and use @ mentions to leave clear, contextualized, and action-oriented feedback.
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| Configurable field restrictions for Box Sign Launched | We released the ability for Admins within Box to enable or restrict specific fields in Box Sign. This capability enables Admins to block senders from dragging and dropping specific fields during document preparation that they disabled within the Admin Console. |
| Support for Multi-Level Metadata Taxonomies (Dec. 2025) GA | We have released multi-level metadata taxonomies in Box, a powerful new metadata management capability that brings reusable, multi-level metadata field types to Box Apps, Box Forms, Box Relay, Box Preview, and anywhere you leverage Box Metadata.
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Don't miss out on our upcoming events! Check them out and subscribe to stay informed and connected. 📅
| Date | Events | Event type |
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| January 7, 2026 | Virtual event | |
| January 14, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) | |
| January 21, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) | |
| January 21, 2026 | How growing teams use content intelligence to cut costs and automate work | Virtual event |
| January 27, 2026 | Unlocking AI-Driven Document Intelligence with Bubo Defense & Box | Virtual event |
| January 27, 2026 | Virtual event | |
| January 28, 2026 | Virtual event |
💥 Catch Up on Past Digests
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