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The $100K H-1B visa fee: How this White House order will reshape US tech hiring and drive major industry shifts

New Delhi, Sept. 21 -- In a sweeping policy shift, the White House has announced a new directive that imposes a $100,000 fee on every new H-1B visa petition filed for foreign workers outside the US. ... Read More


Siddharth Pai: OpenAI's India launch will steepen its learning curve

New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- When OpenAI announced recently that ChatGPT would be formally available in India at Rs.399 a month, it was significant because that small fee grants access to a tool seen as cutt... Read More


The great AI shake-up: TCS layoffs hint of much worse to come for the IT sector

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Last month, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest private sector employer, made a seismic announcement: 12,000 employees would be laid off, mostly from middle and seni... Read More


Siddharth Pai: Don't be naive, Agentic AI won't eliminate agency costs

New Delhi, July 21 -- In 1976, economists Michael Jensen and William Meckling-later my professors-introduced a theory that would fundamentally reshape corporate governance. Their insight was elegant a... Read More


Siddharth Pai: India's IT firms have a unique opportunity in AI's trust deficit

New Delhi, July 7 -- Indian IT services firms are confronting a challenge with AI set to decimate their computer programming work. But an interesting vacuum will be created by AI's steady march into c... Read More