New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- This week's (September 1-5) enterprise-tech story is not just about adopting AI; it is about scaling it. In India, that is showing up through IT-services consolidation, AI-led leadership changes and a sharper focus on the economics of moving beyond pilots. Globally, the race is moving up the stack, with Adobe recalibrating leadership, OpenAI pushing more capable autonomous systems, and Nvidia expanding from compute into the developer and model ecosystem. Here's a roundup.
ITC Infotech, Happiest Minds merger signals a new push for scale in AI era
ITC Infotech and Happiest Minds Technologies are set to combine in a deal that will create a technology services company targeting $1 billion in revenue by FY28. ITC Infotech will first acquire a 22.1% promoter stake in Happiest Minds for about Rs.1,330 crore, followed by a merger of the two businesses. The combined entity will bring together capabilities across AI, digital engineering, cloud, data, cybersecurity and enterprise transformation, with more than 19,000 employees and 800-plus customers. The deal comes as mid-sized IT services companies face growing pressure to build scale and differentiate in an AI-led market. Read more
Hexaware names EXL veteran Vivek Jetley CEO amid growth reset and AI push
Hexaware Technologies has appointed Vivek Jetley, a senior EXL executive with a background in data, analytics and AI, as its CEO-designate. Jetley will take over from Srikrishna Ramakarthikeyan on October 28, with the outgoing CEO staying on as a senior adviser to support the transition. The leadership change comes at an important point for Hexaware: the company is looking to accelerate its AI-led services strategy while dealing with a more challenging growth environment. Jetley's mandate will include scaling the company's AI-led services model and reigniting growth as enterprises rethink technology spending amid the rapid adoption of generative and agentic AI. Read more
Enterprise AI will scale only when the second use case costs less than the first: Capgemini CTO
The enterprise AI conversation in India is entering a more demanding phase, with technology leaders increasingly focused on the economics of scaling beyond pilots. Capgemini's India CTO Nisheeth Srivastava argues that the real test is whether organisations can make their second AI deployment faster and cheaper than the first. That requires reusable data foundations, common technology architecture, governance and processes rather than treating every AI project as a standalone experiment. The shift is significant for CIOs: AI success is increasingly being measured not by how quickly a company can launch a pilot, but by whether it can build an infrastructure that allows multiple use cases to scale economically. Read more
Quick Heal brings in Amit Chaudhary to strengthen product strategy
Quick Heal Technologies has appointed Amit Chaudhary as vice-president of product management, effective September 1. Chaudhary joins the cybersecurity company with a mandate spanning product strategy, innovation and customer-focused security and data-privacy solutions. The appointment comes as cybersecurity vendors face a rapidly changing threat environment shaped by AI, cloud adoption and increasingly sophisticated attacks. For Quick Heal, strengthening product management also points to a broader shift towards building differentiated security products rather than relying primarily on traditional endpoint protection. The company is likely to face increasing pressure to embed AI-driven detection, automation and response capabilities into products as enterprise security architectures evolve.
Google Gemini gets a dedicated enterprise push in India
Google Cloud partner Shivaami has launched a Gemini Enterprise Experience Centre in Mumbai, aimed at helping Indian businesses move from AI experimentation towards deployment. The centre will focus on enterprise-grade AI, cloud modernisation, and agentic AI use cases, giving organisations a place to explore how Google's AI capabilities can be integrated into business workflows. The move comes as vendors and technology partners increasingly build dedicated environments to shorten the distance between AI demonstrations and production deployments. For Indian CIOs, the bigger signal is that the AI market is moving into an implementation phase, with demand shifting towards integration, governance, security and measurable business outcomes rather than standalone model experimentation.
Adobe names Anil Chakravarthy CEO, Shantanu Narayen moves to exec chair
Adobe has named Anil Chakravarthy as its new president and CEO, with longtime chief executive Shantanu Narayen moving to executive chairman on December 1. Chakravarthy, who joined Adobe in 2020 and currently leads its Customer Experience Orchestration business, takes over at a pivotal moment for the software company. Adobe is facing intensifying competition from AI-native design and productivity tools, while investors remain concerned about how generative AI could disrupt its traditional creative-software franchise. Adobe's shares have fallen sharply this year despite stronger demand for its AI-powered products. The leadership transition therefore comes as Adobe attempts to accelerate its AI strategy while defending its core business.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Astra, its latest flagship model, positioning it as a major advance in computer use, coding, reasoning and professional work. The launch reflects the industry's accelerating shift from AI systems that generate answers to models that can perform multi-step tasks across software and enterprise workflows. OpenAI also says Astra represents a significant advance in cybersecurity capability, highlighting both the potential and risks of increasingly capable AI systems. For enterprises, the significance goes beyond another model upgrade: more capable models could expand the addressable market for AI agents that can interact with applications, write and execute code, and complete complex workflows with less human intervention.
Nvidia's $12.9 bn Hugging Face deal
Nvidia has agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, extending its ambitions beyond GPUs and into the software and developer ecosystem underpinning AI. Hugging Face hosts a vast collection of open-source models and tools used by developers and enterprises to build AI applications. The acquisition would give Nvidia a stronger position across the AI development stack as organisations increasingly experiment with open and proprietary models. The deal also underlines how the AI infrastructure race is broadening: control of compute remains critical, but access to models, developer tools and communities is becoming equally important as enterprises move from training models towards deploying AI applications and agents at scale.
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