Financial time::
Multinational companies like McDonald’s and the British insurer Bupa, who fight to hire AI talents at home, turn to rear offices in India to meet their basic AI needs– McDonald’s, Bupa and others create “global capacity centers” to perform basic tasks – Krishn Kaushik and Chris Kay in Bengaluru
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