Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What the survey found McKinsey published The State of AI: Global Survey 2026 around 25 August 2026. Most of the coverage went to the adoption curve, which is the least surprising part of it. The number worth stopping on is buried a little further in, and it is a procurement number rather than a technology one. 32% of organisations decided against buying at least one off-the-shelf software product or feature because they could build it internally with agentic coding tools. The sector split runs higher than you would guess outside tech. Technology 41%, healthcare payers and providers 39%, professional services 38%, energy and materials 38%, financial institutions 36%. Large enterprises are scaling agents, not piloting them. 40% of companies with more than $1bn in revenue are scaling AI…
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