{"id":993696,"date":"2026-02-19T08:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993696"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:36:16","slug":"investors-fears-ridiculous-it-firms-will-enable-ai-to-flourish-piyush-goyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/investors-fears-ridiculous-it-firms-will-enable-ai-to-flourish-piyush-goyal\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors&#8217; fears ridiculous; IT firms will enable AI to flourish: Piyush Goyal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday called investor fears over the future of IT companies as &#8220;ridiculous&#8221;, underlining the important role that the sector will play to make artificial intelligence flourish.<\/p>\n<p>His statement comes at a time when IT companies shares have taken a beating over the past fortnight, especially after the launch of newer AI platforms by US-based companies like Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p>Such developments have cast a shadow on the relevance of the nearly USD 300 billion sector that directly employs 50 lakh people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday called investor fears over the future of IT companies as &#8220;ridiculous&#8221;, underlining the important role that the sector will play to make artificial intelligence flourish. His statement comes at a time when IT companies shares have taken a beating over the past fortnight, especially after the launch of newer AI platforms by US-based companies like Anthropic. Such developments have cast a shadow on the relevance of the nearly USD 300 billion sector that directly employs 50 lakh people.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993696","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=993696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}