Tag: IT Industry
Sarvam AI Startup Programme Fuels Indic AI Builders
Sarvam AI has introduced the Sarvam Startup Programme, providing early-stage companies with up to 12 months of API credits, priority engineering support and production-ready infrastructure to build multilingual AI applications without backend complexities. Founders Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar positioned the initiative to empower India’s developer ecosystem with high-quality models fluent in 22+ Indian languages and English, enabling full agency in creating voice agents,...
Oracle Layoffs Fund AI Data Centre Push Amid Cash Squeeze
Oracle is planning thousands of job cuts across divisions as it grapples with a cash crunch from aggressive AI data centre buildout to support major clients including a $300 billion OpenAI agreement, xAI and Meta, as Bloomberg News first reported. The reductions, potentially broader than typical rolling cuts, may begin this month and target roles expected to diminish under AI automation, coinciding with an...
Karnataka Faces Backlash Over 12-Hour Workday Plan
The Karnataka government’s proposal to amend labour laws for the IT, IT-enabled services (ITeS), and BPO sectors has drawn sharp criticism from employee unions...
India Leads in AI Skills, Says MoS Jitin Prasada
India’s ‘AI for All’ vision is backed by concrete action, with the country emerging as a global leader in AI skill penetration and talent...
India a Key Player in Global Tech: Nasscom
At Global Confluence 2025, Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar underscored India's expanding role in the global tech ecosystem, emphasizing its strong talent pool, thriving startup...
GenAI to Boost India’s IT Productivity by 45%: EY
The widespread adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) is expected to increase productivity in India's $254 billion IT industry by 43-45% over the next five...