{"id":985315,"date":"2026-01-14T08:41:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985315"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:19:20","slug":"tcs-vs-hcltech-one-bets-on-gen-ai-the-other-raised-guidance-which-is-the-smarter-bet-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/tcs-vs-hcltech-one-bets-on-gen-ai-the-other-raised-guidance-which-is-the-smarter-bet-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS vs HCLTech: One bets on Gen AI, the Other raised guidance\u2014Which is the smarter bet for 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services and HCL Technologies are relatively muted in morning trade after their third-quarter results. Both tech majors saw a one-time impact of labour codes, but TCS\u2019s investments in Gen AI  and HCLTech continue to deliver the highest growth in the IT Services largecap space has taken centre stage. Here\u2019s a detailed comparison between the Q3 performance of both companies-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services and HCL Technologies are relatively muted in morning trade after their third-quarter results. Both tech majors saw a one-time impact of labour codes, but TCS\u2019s investments in Gen AI and HCLTech continue to deliver the highest growth in the IT Services largecap space has taken centre stage. Here\u2019s a detailed comparison between the Q3 performance of both companies-<\/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-985315","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\/985315","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=985315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}