From machine learning operations and organizational change to ethical considerations and emerging use cases, this is QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey’s latest thinking on how organizations can most effectively and responsibly use AI to create business value.
Insights on Artificial Intelligence
Featured Insights
Sovereign AI: Building ecosystems for strategic resilience and impact
Sovereign AI is achievable only through an ecosystem effort that connects energy, compute, data, models, platforms, and applications across multiple actors.
Article
Europe’s agentic commerce moment: Decision influence is here; execution is coming
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A new survey shows that European consumers are using AI to shape what they buy, but not how they buy—at least not yet.
Survey
McKinsey Global Tech Agenda 2026
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Our Global Tech Agenda 2026 shows that top CIOs are rewiring their companies for growth, deploying agentic AI and data monetization to create measurable business value.
Interview
Modernizing a 100-year-old business model with AI
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Bridget McCormack, president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association, explains her organization’s revolutionary adoption of a native-AI approach.
Article
The automation curve in agentic commerce
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Agentic AI is increasingly a part of shopping, but not all transactions will be automated in the same way. Here’s what agents will handle—and the situations that will call for human involvement.
Essential Knowledge
Report
Seizing the agentic AI advantage
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A CEO playbook to solve the gen AI paradox and unlock scalable impact with AI agents.
Report
McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2025
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Which frontier technologies matter most for companies in 2025? Our annual tech trends report highlights the latest technology breakthroughs, talent trends, use cases, and their potential impact on companies across sectors.
Survey
The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value
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Organizations are beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI. While still in early days, companies are redesigning workflows, elevating governance, and mitigating more risks.
Report
The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
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Generative AI is poised to unleash the next wave of productivity. We take a first look at where business value could accrue and the potential impacts on the workforce.
Industry perspectives
Blog Post
How AI could reinvent film and TV production
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AI could transform every stage of the creative production process from script to screen. But it may alter not only how content is made but also who gets to make it.
Blog Post
McKinsey helps pioneer an AI-native approach in dispute resolution
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The American Arbitration Association–International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR) announced the launch of its AI-native arbitrator, developed in collaboration with QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey.
Article
Remapping travel with agentic AI
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Agentic AI could upend the travel industry. Travel and hospitality organizations should explore how agentic can help catalyze AI’s transformative potential.
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Reimagining life science enterprises with agentic AI
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Agentic AI is poised to boost the benefits from AI by changing its role from tool to coworker and catalyzing an end-to-end reimagining of the life sciences value chain.
DATA SCIENCE FOR PRACTITIONERS
Insights from our Medium blog by data science professionals, for data science professionals.
QuantumBlack Medium blog post
Unlocking the value of clean, trusted data
Just as water keeps cities and industries alive, data keeps modern organizations moving. McKinsey research shows that data-driven organizations are 23 times more likely to acquire customers, and 19 times more likely to be profitable. Data is crucial to the decision-making that supports innovation, but like water, it only creates value when it flows clearly and reliably. When data flows are opaque or unreliable, even the most advanced risk engines and AI models cannot be trusted. If data is flawed, every decision downstream is compromised.