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Why Bill Gates is watching clean ammonia and this Infosys Prize winner is building it
Caltech University's Professor Karthish Manthiram won the Infosys Prize 2025 in Physical Sciences for his breakthroughs in lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis and oxygen-atom transfer catalysis, showing how renewable electricity can drive the production of essential chemicals.
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Davos 2026: Indian enterprises will be global role models for AI adoption, says ServiceNow vice-chairman
Calling it “the India century,” Tzitzon said he sees an explosion of energy and innovation across the country, including in Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Mumbai.
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Davos 2026: Tired of AI PoCs, enterprises want trusted platforms, not a thousand solutions: ServiceNow
Tzitzon said enterprises are also increasingly leaning towards a platform strategy rather than experimenting with multiple disconnected tools
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Davos 2026: India hitting energy transition milestones early, but AI power demand, energy security next tests: WEF’s Roberto Bocca
Bocca said India has a “very ambitious plan” and is already achieving some of the key milestones “even earlier than planned,” pointing to India’s progress in building renewable capacity and expanding electricity infrastructure.
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India’s top IT firms face muted hiring in 9MFY26; net headcount down about 613
When compared to 9MFY25, the top five IT services majors’ hiring plunged more than 105 per cent in 9MFY26.
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AI shines in a dull quarter for Indian IT giants
In a quarter where the larger business grew at a measured pace, AI clearly behaved like a different engine.
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Wipro trims FY26 fresher hiring target to 8,000 from 10,000
Wipro CHRO Saurabh Govil said the company has already hired over 5,000 freshers so far this fiscal
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Wipro takes Rs 263-crore hit for Europe, Capco restructuring
The impact was visible in net income and earnings per share, though Wipro excluded the charge from its IT services operating margins
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Wipro takes over Rs 300-crore hit from new labour codes in Q3
CFO Aparna C. Iyer said Wipro's labour code expenses have been the least in the industry as the company was already in the process of weighing in the impact beforehand.
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Wipro's headcount increases by 6,529 employees in Q3FY26
Wipro Q3 results: Attrition this quarter moderated marginally to 14.2% from 14.9% last quarter.
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Wipro improves Q4 guidance, projects up to 2% revenue growth
Attrition moderated marginally, while the headcount increased by 6,529 employees from 2,35,492 in the previous quarter
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New labour codes cost TCS, Infosys, HCLTech over Rs 4,000 crore in Q3
The IT majors see this as a one-time cost, which will have an impact of around 10-20 bps on operating margins annually.
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Infosys counts over 500 AI agents, sees AI work across 90% of top 200 clients
Moreover, Infosys has generated over 28 million lines of code using Gen AI till now, a 12% increase sequentially.
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Infosys takes Rs 1,289-crore hit from new labour codes
The adjustments for labour codes represent an increase in gratuity liability and an increase in leave liability, the company said
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TCS voluntary exits outside restructuring tops 22,000 in 2 quarters on slower pace of hiring
These exits include voluntary churn, routine attrition and other non-restructuring reasons, apart from the 7,800 employees TCS says it 'released' as part of its ongoing workforce review
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HCLTech draws line between ‘Advanced AI’ and buzzword AI as Q3 revenue hits $146 mn
The advanced AI business grew nearly 20 percent sequentially, even as overall company revenue rose 4.2 percent quarter-on-quarter in constant currency terms.
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HCLTech headcount slips by 261 in Q3FY26 despite fresher hiring
The Noida-headquartered company reported a net reduction of 261 employees during the quarter, taking its total employee base to 2,26,379 at the end of Q3FY26.
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TCS headcount falls by 11,151 in Q3FY26 as restructuring continues
Nevertheless, restructuring expenses fell sharply in Q3, declining by over 77% QoQ to Rs 253 crore, indicating a tapering of one-time costs linked to the company’s ongoing workforce realignment.
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Algorithms, not GPUs, are the real force multipliers and this Infosys Prize winner proves it
Sachdeva’s breakthrough challenges one of the most studied problems in computer science, known as maximum flow, which supports how information, traffic, and resources move through networks
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Budget 2026: Data centres bat for green energy, funding boost as AI reshapes industry
Amid the AI driven data centre demand, power and electrical infrastructure have emerged as the largest capex block at around 35 to 45 percent of the costs
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Budget 2026: Software firms, cloud players seek AI industrialisation, push for sovereign infra
As the Union Budget nears, technology leaders want the government to move AI from pilots to production, back domestic cloud infrastructure and help Indian software firms scale exports of high-value products.
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IT moves beyond agentic AI as Wipro, others bet on autonomous, quantum-led systems for 2026
While 2025 was about proving what agentic AI could do, 2026 is expected to be defined by scale and measurable business outcomes
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Deep tech VCs tap IIT-Madras as consultancy revenue crosses Rs 2,800 crore
Many of the technologies now attracting investor attention are the result of years of interdisciplinary work across engineering, materials, electronics, computing, and applied sciences, IIT-Madras director V Kamakoti says
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Q3 results: From muted growth to AI deflation, 5 factors to watch out for in IT earnings
With seasonal headwinds clouding reported numbers, investors are likely to look past the quarter and focus on management commentary around CY26 budgets and AI monetisation timelines
