N Chandrasekaran gets into driver’s seat for TCS AI ride

Mumbai: Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran is stepping up direct involvement with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as a priority to steer India’s largest IT company through a vulnerable phase and ring-fence the group’s largest cash generator at a time when artificial intelligence (AI) threatens established business models, said people with knowledge of the matter.

The renewed focus includes bolstering the role of TCS as default AI partner for Tata Group companies, they said. It will also explore acquisitions of AI-focused startups to accelerate the AI pivot, they said.