New Delhi, June 10 -- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) chairman N. Chandrasekaran said the company could soon deploy as many AI agents as human employees, signalling a historic shift in India's $315‑billion IT industry.

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Chandrasekaran, who is also Tata Sons chairman, said at TCS' 31st annual general meeting on Tuesday that the industry will no longer hire at the scale seen over the past few decades, as artificial intelligence (AI) takes over some of the workloads. TCS, which ended FY26 with $30.02 billion in revenue, will have as many AI agents as employees in the next few years. Th...