{"id":1020673,"date":"2026-07-14T08:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020673"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:27:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:57:38","slug":"tcs-betting-big-on-ai-plans-8900-ai-engineers-eyes-acquisitions-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/tcs-betting-big-on-ai-plans-8900-ai-engineers-eyes-acquisitions-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS betting big on AI; plans 8,900 AI engineers, eyes acquisitions: Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is building a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed engineers and hunting for AI acquisitions as it bets artificial intelligence will create new business rather than undermine outsourcing, two TCS executives told Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The strategy emerges amid investor concern that AI could disrupt India\u2019s $315 billion IT services \u2060industry \u200bby reducing demand for engineering teams, shortening project timelines and squeezing prices as clients seek a share of productivity gains. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would be \u2026 ensuring that we have as many as 1% to 1.5% of our associates who could be what you would call FDEs,\u201d CEO K Krithivasan said in an \u200binterview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is building a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed engineers and hunting for AI acquisitions as it bets artificial intelligence will create new business rather than undermine outsourcing, two TCS executives told Reuters. The strategy emerges amid investor concern that AI could disrupt India\u2019s $315 billion IT services \u2060industry \u200bby reducing demand for engineering teams, shortening project timelines and squeezing prices as clients seek a share of productivity gains. \u201cWe would be \u2026 ensuring that we have as many as 1% to 1.5% of our associates who could be what you would call FDEs,\u201d CEO K [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020701,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020673\/revisions\/1020701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}