{"id":1026125,"date":"2026-08-04T09:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026125"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:22:25","slug":"is-ai-slowly-killing-it-outsourcing-inside-googles-50-million-hcltech-contract-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/04\/is-ai-slowly-killing-it-outsourcing-inside-googles-50-million-hcltech-contract-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AI slowly killing IT outsourcing? Inside Google\u2019s $50 million HCLTech contract cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly a decade, HCLTech has been a key partner managing a significant share of Google&#8217;s application development and engineering operations. That long-standing engagement, however, is now being scaled back.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, Google has reduced the size of its outsourcing contract with HCLTech by about $50 million annually as part of a broader strategy to consolidate vendors and expand the use of automation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly a decade, HCLTech has been a key partner managing a significant share of Google&#8217;s application development and engineering operations. That long-standing engagement, however, is now being scaled back. According to media reports, Google has reduced the size of its outsourcing contract with HCLTech by about $50 million annually as part of a broader strategy to consolidate vendors and expand the use of automation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026125","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026138,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026125\/revisions\/1026138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}