Not long after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021, Donald King landed a job as an associate at the London-based consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. King had always assumed he’d work in business — he’d started his own hedge fund while still an undergrad — but a few years into the job, he decided he was more interested in tech than finance. Early in 2024, after PwC announced a $1 billion investment in artificial intelligence, he switched roles and started working as a data scientist for the company’s nascent Global AI Factory.

King worked with engineers at PwC and OpenAI to customize teams of autonomous AI systems, called agents, for Fortune 500 companies. Normally, multinational companies contract thousands of people to modernize their backend software. Home De

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