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Top AI News from HCLTech

1. HCLTech uses AI to enhance jobs, not cut them: Chairperson Roshni Nadar

At HCLTech’s annual general meeting, Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra addressed growing concerns about job losses linked to artificial intelligence. According to the Times of India, she reassured shareholders that AI is being used to enhance, not replace, human effort, and that the company is focused on adapting roles rather than cutting them.

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2. Vijay Guntur is named by Analytics India Magazine (AIM) as one of India’s 100 most influential people in AI

Vijay Guntur, with over 30 years at HCLTech, sits at the intersection of innovation and execution as the company’s global CTO and head of ecosystems. From spearheading GenAI-driven service transformation with platforms like AI Force to building silicon-to-cloud solutions that push India’s semiconductor and AI engineering ambitions, Guntur’s influence spans deeply across industries and borders.

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3. CXOs should view responsible AI beyond compliance: HCLTech’s Heather Domin, Vice President and Head of Office of Responsible AI and Governance at HCLTech

As AI adoption accelerates across enterprises, so do the ethical challenges such as bias, hallucinations, accountability and privacy. In a recent TechCircle interview, Heather Domin, PhD, VP and Head of the Office of Responsible AI and Governance at HCLTech, outlines how leaders can move past checkbox compliance to embed trust, equity, and governance into the core of AI-powered products, solutions, and operations.

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Top AI POVs from HCLTech

1. Reimagining Enterprise AI: How silicon-to-software collaboration is accelerating innovation by Anand Swamy EVP, Head of Tech and ISV Ecosystems

Enterprise AI adoption jumped from 55% to 78% in a year, driven by GenAI, data readiness and business impact. Scaling AI now hinges on ecosystem-first, silicon-to-software collaboration. While the entry of GenAI has contributed to this change, there are other factors too. Pilot projects have proved AI’s potential and the pressure is on to deliver measurable outcomes in high-impact areas such as total experiences, operations and risk management. 

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2. Scaling AI across the enterprise with a product-aligned operating model

As businesses move beyond isolated AI experiments toward enterprise-wide adoption, many are rethinking their team structures and strategies to foster sustainable growth. In this episode of the HCLTech Trends and Insights podcast, Srini Kompella, Senior Vice President and Global Lead, Data and AI at HCLTech, unpacks the findings of HCLTech’s latest research on building an AI‑led operating model. Kompella brings deep expertise and firsthand insights into what’s working, and what’s not as organizations navigate this critical shift.

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Top AI News from Industry

1. The AI Summit where everyone agreed on bad news

At a lakefront venue in Sweden earlier this month, 18 individuals from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, the U.K. AI Security Institute, the OECD, and other groups gathered for an invite-only summit. On the agenda: arriving at an understanding of the likely ways that advanced AI will impact the “social contract” between working people, governments, and corporations.

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2. Microsoft AI unveils first in-house models to challenge OpenAI, Google and other tech giants

Microsoft's AI division has unveiled its first two homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) models: MAI-Voice-1 AI and MAI-1-preview. The company has been developing its own foundational AI technology, moving beyond its reliance on external partners like OpenAI. According to the company, the new MAI-Voice-1 is a speech model capable of generating a minute of audio in under a second using just one GPU. Microsoft is already leveraging this model to power several of its features, including Copilot Daily, which has an AI host narrate top news stories, and for generating podcast-style discussions to help explain various topics.

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