Box experienced a major outage affecting its AI features on May 31, 2026, between 5:00 p.m. and 6:41 p.m. PDT. Some customers encountered errors or degraded performance when using Box AI, including failures to generate AI responses and slower-than-expected behavior. General file access and non-AI Box services remained unaffected during the incident.
Box is a cloud-based file storage and collaboration platform widely used by enterprises and organizations for document management and team workflows.
The company's investigation identified the disruption as stemming from an outage at a third-party AI provider that caused Box AI requests to fail. Service was restored once the external provider resolved its issue and normal request processing resumed.
Box has now declared the incident resolved and said it is reviewing third-party dependencies and operational practices to reduce the risk of similar interruptions. The company is conducting a full engineering postmortem and noted its findings are subject to further analysis.