In today’s enforcement environment, compliance must be proactive, data-driven and scalable. Written policies and reactive enforcement no longer meet regulator expectations or support responsible growth. As regulators increasingly examine how compliance functions in practice, companies must demonstrate active oversight and continuous improvement.

Agentic commerce isn’t science fiction. It’s a practical shift already underway. These AI agents can gather context, make decisions, learn from past interactions and complete transactions from start to finish. For retailers that depend on personalized service at scale, this is a turning point.

Hosted by DSN Founder and CEO Stuart Johnson, the session focused on real-world application rather than theory—what leaders are already building, testing and learning as AI becomes embedded in daily operations.

Launching or scaling a small business in 2026 will mean understanding key trends and how to align your organization with these shifts. Upwork, an online marketplace for hiring skilled freelancers, dug into the top trends shaping the small business landscape in 2026 and how adapting your strategy to match could empower you to make more confident decisions, prioritize investments and structure your business for long-term resilience.

If you lead training or marketing inside a direct selling company, you’re probably feeling two things at once right now: excitement and concern. Excitement because AI is helping people create faster, easier and with more confidence than ever before. Concern because the way the field is using AI is starting to clash with what social platforms reward; what compliance requires; and what customers trust. In short, we’re becoming less human.

Our rich history says it will start with leaders willing to take risks. Today, six frontiers stand out. Two involve new strategic approaches while the remaining four are product category opportunities that could fuel growth.

AI is already making work faster, cheaper and more scalable. What’s less discussed is how quickly AI is eroding one of the foundational assumptions of modern society: that seeing is believing.

Vorwerk announced the debut of the Cookidoo Assistant, an AI-supported cooking companion that infuses purposeful, everyday intelligence into guided cooking.

What if the real barrier to AI adoption isn’t our teams’ capabilities, but our own leadership blind spots? How do I need to change the way I lead? What old habits do I need to abandon to prepare for an AI-powered future? That’s the real challenge.

The Real Brokerage Inc. is expected to announce new AI innovations at its annual RISE 2025 agent conference this week. The three-day conference will host more than 2,000 agents for knowledge-sharing, mastermind groups, community building and personal growth opportunities. Attendees will also have a chance to participate in philanthropic efforts, including the One Real Impact […]

At its General Session at eXpcon Miami, eXp Realty announced the launch of Mira, an advanced AI-powered business assistant designed to “fundamentally streamline how agents access information and run their businesses.”

The gig model has become what Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan might call digital serfdom—you work land you don’t own, while the algorithm plays landlord. Freedom at the front end; dependency at the back.