Which tech trends are rising to the top of the business agenda?

The McKinsey Podcast features Lareina Yee, Roger Roberts, and Sven Smit discussing McKinsey's annual tech trends report. Lareina Yee differentiates agentic AI from previous AI types, emphasizing its autonomous task completion and its potential impact on businesses through examples like research process rethinking and customer service improvements. Sven Smit discusses the rise of robotics and autonomous systems, highlighting their accelerating adoption in various sectors, including energy and utilities, and addresses the debate around robots replacing or augmenting human capital. Roger Roberts explores application-specific semiconductors, their importance for AI, and their impact on data center expansion and power intensiveness, also addressing the challenges and talent constraints in the semiconductor industry and the importance of digital trust and cybersecurity in the AI economy.