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Infosys’ variable pay has steadily improved over recent quarters, rising from about 65-80%, and now averaging around 85% in Q3FY26.
Hiring momentum for mid-level roles, defined as positions with annual compensation between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 30 lakh, has moderated over the past few years.
However, the IT major, last week, said the assumption that new AI tools can be plugged into enterprise environments and immediately replace large parts of IT services work is misplaced.
Growth metrics like revenue per employee and margin per employee will now increasingly depend on how effectively firms embed AI into delivery.
Billings in the recruitment business grew by 11%, while the non-recruitment portfolio, 99acres (real estate), Jeevansathi (matchmaking), and Shiksha (education), combined, recorded growth of 14.1%.
Elon Musk criticises Anthropic after its $30B funding round valued it at $380B, reigniting debate over AI bias and intensifying industry rivalry.
CynLr is currently raising capital and is looking to secure $40 million plus in its ongoing round, with plans to raise about $75 million by 2028.
Pushmeet Kohli, one of the "hottest" AI researchers in the world currently and vice president of research at Google DeepMind, gave an exclusive interview to Moneycontrol's Managing Editor Dr Nalin Mehta and shared his thoughts on artificial intelligence and its impact on India.
The combination will help optimise cooling operations in real time, enable predictive maintenance, and support scalable and reliable infrastructure for AI workloads.
This comes in a year when India also saw record numbers of new GCCs being set up in the country and net new jobs growing significantly to 135,000-150,000.
Kohli also said AI’s growing role in biology is already demonstrating how technology can level the global scientific playing field.
“I think India is in a very good position,” Kohli said, pointing to opportunities where AI can directly benefit the country.
The technology distributor, which is repositioning itself beyond a pure-play distribution model, sees GCCs, data centres, and services-led engagements emerging as key growth drivers over the next few years.
Over the past year, LTM has been winning several mega deals driven by its AI solutions offerings.
Soota said the AI-first push is already beginning to show up in business momentum, citing stronger order flows and an improving pipeline
Oracle is set to offer its multi-cloud services with three new data centres in India by April, two with AWS and one Google Cloud, Kumar told Moneycontrol in an interview.
The funding round values Entire at $300 million and also includes individual investments from industry leaders such as Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel, and Y Combinator head Garry Tan.
The amendments introduce mandatory labelling and due diligence obligations for synthetically generated content, even as industry bodies had earlier warned against overbroad definitions and compliance challenges.
“We are seeing a hockey stick growth. In the last two years, cloud business has doubled and the momentum continues in India…we are going to launch more data centres in this calendar year,” said Kapil Makhija, VP, Technology Cloud, Oracle India.
The company is making a strategic shift from EMS Vendor to Integrated Electronics Platform
Vaishnaw also said that India will soon add 20,000 GPUs as AI compute capacity expands.
Globally, AI server manufacturing is dominated by Taiwanese Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) such as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron, along with branded players like Dell, HPE, and Lenovo, while platforms are largely Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.
LinkedIn is betting big on its AI skilling, assisting tools and solutions, to drive sales through its B2B talent solutions business. India remains one of its core markets for AI adoption and revenue generation.
Close to 80% of organisations have not yet updated or drafted DPDP-aligned privacy policies or governance frameworks, pointing to a lack of structural preparedness.
Cognizant’s entry into the 'Winner’s Circle' followed 6.4% year-on-year constant currency growth in 2025, the highest among large IT services firms
