Agentic AI set to transform tech roles, McKinsey warns Tech Agentic AI is poised to shift software engineering from manual coding to high-level orchestration, which is set to transform tech roles according to a McKinsey executive. Speaking at Viva Tech Paris on Thursday, Stéphane Bout, the firm’s France leader and senior partner at QuantumBlack, AI – McKinsey’s data and analytics branch – said the software industry is [...]
KPMG: The real AI bottleneck isn’t tech, it’s humans Tech The challenge with AI is no longer about whether the tech works, but whether the people and processes around it are ready, claimed business and tech leaders at KPMG’s panel at Viva Tech Paris. “We see the potential”, said Nicole Buttner, chief executive of Melantec and general secretary of Germany’s MPP party. “But it’s like [...]
L’Oréal claims creative jobs are safe despite its new artist AI Tech L’Oreal has insisted that human creativity remains essential, despite announcing its new partnership with Nvidia on Wednesday, which will be used to scale up AI-driven production across creative sectors like content creation. At the Viva Tech conference in Paris, the French beauty giant unveiled an expansive plan to roll out Nvidia’s AI enterprise platform across [...]
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: ‘Praise and promise are useless’ without UK AI infrastructure June 12, 2025 “Praise and promise are completely useless” without AI infrastructure, Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, told City AM when asked about the effusive comments he made on Britain’s AI capabilities just a couple of days prior. At London Tech Week on Monday, the tech heavyweight dubbed ‘AI godfather’ lauded the UK’s AI talent, but flagged a critical lack [...]