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3 weeks ago | blog.dropbox.com | Benjy Hansen-Bundy |Anthony Pellegrino |Patrick Lightbody

Disaster management teams are stretched thin—and looking to AI for help. Could what works for them help the rest of us too? The Swannanoa is a small river just outside Asheville, NC. Normally, it’s about two feet deep. So when a video of a house being carried downstream hit TikTok in late September of last year, people began to grasp just how serious the situation with Hurricane Helene had become.

2 months ago | blog.dropbox.com | Graham Isador |Andrew Zaleski |Benjy Hansen-Bundy

Easing some of the cumbersome documentation and heaps of paperwork is a promising application of AI technologies in a field that’s already prone to worker burnout. Crucially, this shift has allowed care workers to spend less time at a desk and more time in the field. In a West London flat, an outreach social worker sits across from a senior resident, gently guiding the conversation to uncover key details about their daily routine.

Jan 23, 2025 | blog.dropbox.com | Drew Pearce

Dropbox has been a long-time supporter of the creative community, and we’re thrilled to be a sponsor for the Sundance Film Festival for our tenth year. Filmmakers, producers, and more trust and depend on Dropbox to bring their creative visions to life. In fact, 68% of feature films at this year’s festival used Dropbox in their process. Independent filmmakers often work with scrappy budgets that require creative solutions and efficient collaboration.

Jan 15, 2025 | blog.dropbox.com | Andrew Zaleski |Graham Isador |Drew Pearce

Work Culture For knowledge workers, sharing some manual tasks with AI has the potential to be a game changer for collaborative work, especially as knowledge workers find themselves working with more and more teams both inside their organization and beyond. Imagine you’re a project manager at an investment firm, a fashion company, or even a Formula 1 racing team.

Jan 9, 2025 | blog.dropbox.com | Tomi Akitunde |Melissa Kimble |Drew Pearce

To fight climate change, Recoolit is destroying hidden pollutants and turning them into carbon credits with Dropbox. In Southeast Asia’s urban centers, where air conditioners hum on every corner, a hidden climate threat is brewing. Older cooling systems, especially those using refrigerants like R-22, leak gases that trap up to 10,000 times more heat than carbon dioxide. Despite the staggering potency of these gases, they’re barely a blip in climate conversations.