McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2025. “In addition to the growing reach of AI, another new trend we have chosen to highlight in this year’s report is agentic AI, which has rapidly emerged as a major focus of interest and experimentation in enterprise and consumer technology. Agentic AI combines the flexibility and generality of AI foundation models with the ability to act in the world by creating “virtual coworkers” that can autonomously plan and execute multistep workflows. Although quantitative measures of interest and equity investment levels are as yet relatively low compared with more established trends, agentic AI is among the fastest growing of this year’s trends, signaling its potentially revolutionary possibilities.”
BCG newsletter: “AI is no longer an enhancement or add-on. Companies putting AI at their core—becoming “AI-first”—are setting new standards for performance, productivity, and profitability. They are reimagining how to organize work, develop talent, and create strategic differentiation.”
Sanjeev Prasad: “The challenge still remains that India is simply not creating enough good-quality jobs. It is creating jobs, there’s no doubt about that…There’s a lot of government data based on the Labour Force Survey. Incrementally, what we are seeing is a lot of new rural female workers are ending up in agriculture. And a lot of urban male workers seem to be ending up in the gig economy, where income levels are not going to be very high anyway.” [via The Ken and The Core]
Fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli: “At the end of the day, humanity is better nowadays than what it was centuries ago or even only 80 years ago . . . Yes, there are wars and trade wars today too, but as always in history they come in cycles . . . and we are close to a turning point. Dark times like these are always followed by something different, something better.”
