AI hiring outpaces overall IT recruitment in India: report

India's IT sector is prioritising artificial intelligence (AI) hiring, with AI roles seeing a 16% year-on-year surge in June, contrasting with an overall 3% decline in IT jobs. India's $315 billion IT industry has been under pressure with clients holding back on spending on technology due to ​a weak macroeconomic environment and the ⁠advent of ‌AI that threatens their traditional business model.