The man running a 370,000-person firm has a message that cuts against the white-collar doom narrative: AI isn’t gutting payrolls, it’s padding them. Mohamed Kande, global chairman of PwC, told CNBC’s Squawk Box at the VivaTech conference in Paris on Thursday that companies deploying AI “at scale” are hiring more people, not fewer. His reasoning…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has brought Dean Ball, a former senior policy adviser on AI and emerging technology in the Trump administration, to lead a new unit called Strategic Futures, according to a report by Axios. In a conversation, Ball told Axios that he will focus on shaping OpenAI’s frontier AI policy and internal governance,…

JALANDHAR: A 19-year-old youth of Punjabi origin has been arrested for allegedly killing his parents and maternal grandmother in the US, just months after the family visited their native village of Lakhpur, near Banga in Nawanshahr district.Gaurav Chopra is accused of shooting his father, Sweeta Ram, 56; his mother, Kamlesh Rani, 46; and his maternal…

Google is seeing another top level exit. Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC. Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence. Jumper won the chemistry Nobel alongside Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis for creating an AI model that can predict the…