Your Work Tools Are Agents Now — And Your Workforce Strategy Needs to Catch Up
monday.com launches native AI agents as Gartner warns AI layoffs backfire for business ROI.

monday.com launches native AI agents as Gartner warns AI layoffs backfire for business ROI.

SecureWorld reports SMBs are cutting general AI spend but protecting security automation. The SBE Council confirms 82% of SMBs have invested in AI with 66% seeing direct revenue gains. And Simply Business just launched the first SMB insurance app inside ChatGPT — signaling the platform's shift to a full business services hub.

IDC says GenAI is now core to SMB marketing operations, Stanford's AI Index reports 58% of small businesses use generative AI regularly, and Gartner projects 40% of SMBs will deploy at least one AI agent by end of 2026 — the data is in.

Google released free offline AI dictation, Gartner found only 28% of AI deployments deliver returns, and AI-generated code has a serious security problem — here's what small business owners need to know and do right now.