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As much as 80 per cent of TCS' new hires will be talent with digital and Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills going forward, a top company official has said. With the share of AI-led work in overall revenue growing to 10 per cent in the recently concluded September quarter, the country's largest IT services company said a growth in the share of AI revenues will help it expand its profit margins, which remain below its aspirational levels. "Of the 4,500 that we have added in Q2, I would say safely 25 to 30 per cent are pure AI and total about 80 per cent is new age," the company's chief operating officer Arathi Subramanian told PTI here. When asked if the same proportion will continue going ahead as well, she replied in the affirmative and added that the desired talent is available in the market. When asked if it is advantage for freshers over the mid-career professionals in this sort environment, where their AI-nativity and relatively lower costs would be of help to the former, she
With AI becoming part of everyday life, a top global expert on artificial intelligence has called for integrating AI literacy into India's education curriculum and creating incentives for AI companies to invest in child safety. Noting that opportunities and risks presented by AI are global, Cathy Li, Head of the Centre for AI Excellence at the World Economic Forum, emphasised that solutions must be localised, especially for India given its diversity, and safeguards need to work across languages and cultures. Li, co-author of a whitepaper titled 'Children's Safety and Well-Being in the Age of AI: Best Practices and Incentives', told PTI in an interview that AI systems in India need to be tested across languages and cultural contexts, but also for different levels of connectivity, digital literacy and device access. The recently released report said AI can unlock major benefits for children, but only if safety, agency, inclusion, and accountability are built in. Asked about specific
India is on the brink of a major technological transformation with advances in areas like artificial intelligence and quantum technologies opening up new possibilities, Atomic Energy Commission chairman Ajit Kumar Mohanty said on Saturday. Mohanty, who is also the secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy, was addressing the 36th convocation of the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra as the chief guest. "India is entering an important period of technological transformation, with advances in AI, quantum technologies, semiconductors, space science, clean energy and advanced manufacturing creating new possibilities," he said. A developed India will require strong indigenous capabilities and a skilled generation of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, supported by sustained research, interdisciplinary collaboration and investment in human resources, he said. "Recent milestones in India's nuclear programme, including the achievement of first criticality of the 500 MWe Prototype