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.
No longer a novelty, AI has become the non-negotiable “cheat code” for working smarter, faster and leaner as technology rapidly iterates. While the original generative AI could identify patterns and create content, the evolution of agentic AI can now execute multi-step processes autonomously, learn from its own mistakes and act as a bridge to other applications.
As more educated, ambitious and driven professionals become displaced by the proliferation of AI automation, these bright people will be looking for new opportunities where they can utilize their people skills and chart their own course. Many will be starting over, looking for a career that will value what they have to offer. One that won’t be suddenly rendered obsolete by technology.