Briefing

From Family Business to Diversified Powerhouse: A Conversation with Daniel Tsai, Chairman, Fubon Group

How Daniel Tsai transformed a family insurer into one of Asia’s most diversified — and most resilient — business empires.…

How Trustpilot built a real-time architecture for data enrichment using Gemma

Processing millions of user reviews in real-time, under strict latency and cost constraints, is no easy task. Trustpilot has been doing exactly that with custom…

The next gold rush: How the Bay Area can keep its edge in the AI era

San Francisco is driving the AI revolution. How can the Bay Area sustain and expand this innovation ecosystem in the years to come?…

The fully-managed Remote MCP Server for AlloyDB is now Generally Available

AI agents possess incredible reasoning capabilities and can perform increasingly complex actions. But the reliability of agentic outcomes depends entirely on th…

What Google Cloud announced in AI this month

Editor’s note: Want to keep up with the latest from Google Cloud? Check back here for a monthly recap of our latest updates, announcements, resources, events, l…

When warranty costs rival R&D spend: Remaking vehicle quality with AI

As warranty costs surge, automakers are turning to AI-enabled quality systems to detect risks earlier and reduce financial exposure.…

Dynamic Repartitioning for Time Series Workloads

Doubling Down on Suno, the Platform for Creative Entertainment

Every major consumer platform is built on a new behavior. TikTok made short-form video consumption mainstream. Netflix changed how we watch TV. Suno is doing so…

Latino economic mobility: Insights from five years of research

This compendium brings together five years of McKinsey research on how Latinos are reshaping America’s economic future and why expanding opportunity for this dy…

How CEOs can navigate the new era of trade

AI, geopolitical realignment, and shifting capital flows are redrawing trade corridors and reshaping competitive advantage—forcing leaders to rethink where and …

Preparing for agentic commerce: REWE’s AI transformation

The German retail and tourism group’s chief digital and technology officer says AI is “the most fundamental change in the way we do business in 50 years.”…

Embracing complexity: Parloa’s vision for next-gen customer experience

Chris Silver, chief revenue officer at Parloa, talks with McKinsey partner Brian Blackader about the shift to adopting AI technologies in customer care, getting…

Reducing container cold start times using SOCI index on DLAMI and DLC

In this post, we look at how to use SOCI on publicly available Deep Learning AMIs and Containers, when to use the various SOCI modes provided by the tool, and h…

Fundamental’s Large Tabular Model NEXUS is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

In this post, we show you how to get started with NEXUS on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, walk through the deployment process, and demonstrate how to run predictio…

Automate model quota request and operational issue triage on Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we introduce Amazon Bedrock Ops Alert, a three-layer automated monitoring solution that proactively detects operational issues, dynamically adjust…

Author Talks: How to succeed when systems fail

What if the fastest way to transform an organization is through crisis? Marina Nitze explains how crises expose hidden failures—and create rare opportunities fo…

What's new for Managed Service for Apache Spark clusters

At Google Cloud, our goal is to let you run large-scale analytical and data science workloads with maximum efficiency so you can process big data pipelines, mac…

Resetting cost competitiveness in pulp and paper packaging

Overcapacity, volatile costs, and weak demand are compressing margins. Successful companies are harnessing AI to pursue cross-functional interventions that targ…

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Deploy NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Get 5x faster inference and 30% lower cost for agentic AI workloads with this frontier reasoning m…

Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence

Also: how pitch a book to an AI!…

Banking and AI: When the tech starts doing the work, not just assisting it

Three McKinsey experts explain how AI is reshaping banking from the inside out—and why the biggest obstacle isn’t the technology.…

The next wave of value in the materials supply chain

A slew of forces is expanding roles for overlooked players in the materials supply chain in North America and Europe.…

HR Monitor 2026: A turning point for the people function

A comprehensive benchmark survey of workforce and HR trends across Europe, the United States, and China delivers critical insights for today’s HR leaders.…

Reimagining federal procurement in the digital and AI age

Digitalizing federal procurement can improve decision-making, increase efficiency and transparency, and bolster resilience—all of which are critical in today’s …

Blackstone’s Legal & Compliance AI transformation started with technology. It succeeded because it put people first

By first redesigning how decisions flow—clarifying ownership and codifying precedent—the financial services firm was able to rewire its Legal & Compliance group…

Evaluate your Amazon Nova Sonic voice agent at scale, no microphone required

In this post, we walk you through the Nova Sonic Test Harness, an open source framework that we built to solve both problems. It serves as a rapid iteration too…

Modernizing Healthcare: How Alcidion achieved greater stability and performance with AlloyDB

In clinical informatics, every second counts. For Alcidion, a global leader in smart health solutions, the mission is simple but critical: use technology to red…

AI in life sciences explained: The technology that could reinvent medicine

Three McKinsey experts explain how AI is reshaping life sciences—where it’s creating value today, why so many efforts stall, and what the next decade could mean…

Where value is won and lost in distribution

The state of distribution in the United States is defined by permanent volatility, especially from the emergence of AI. The ability to address five current them…

Private credit in 2025: A maturing industry navigates change

Complexity is increasing and competitive pressures are on the rise. The asset class is becoming less about deploying capital at pace—and more about deploying it…