#xavier-veilleux

#xavier-veilleux

"I don't feel stressed out that often. It happens to me four or five times a year." Bosworth identifies his stress triggers as a packed schedule, which leads to concerns about prioritizing important work.

The internet is real life. And navigating life means navigating the internet. News now exists to summarize things that have already happened online. Music is being restructured by TikTok's 15-second clip format, the way radio once defined the verse-chorus arrangement.

In 2024, I used 18 of my 25 allotted vacation days from BCG to sit at home and teach myself to code. I wanted to have the skills to one day found my own company.

My cofounder and I officially founded West Tek Defense Corporation in August 2022. We were doing smart rifles for the military. It was complicated. (At one point, we were literally balancing redox equations for propellant in the ammo.) The physics background we both had helped a lot; essentially, everything we saw was something we'd encountered in a class or during personal research. We spent about three years on the entire process. Ultimately, we found out it wasn't going to work - mostly because of regulation.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan initially defended the choice on X. YC-backed Canadian startups that reincorporated in the US had twice the average valuation as those that didn't, he wrote. "There are lots of reasons to build great companies in Canada, and there are lots of great YC and non-YC startups that thrive and are making the Canadian tech scene great," he wrote a few hours later. "Where you are incorporated increases your access to capital. That's it."

The AI X Leadership Summit is designed for executives and technical leaders navigating the complex realities of AI adoption, governance, workforce transformation, and innovation.

I keep telling people internally also that we are at a bitcoin $1 moment right now. You can see the excitement, you can see the revenue growth for everybody. This is when like, things are kind of just working. The industry could soon hit a massive inflection point, when software produced through vibe coding becomes more reliable and widely usable.

We have under development approximately 26,000 acres across two jurisdictions with the infrastructure necessary to support power generation and compute capacity at scale. Each Wonder Valley campus is expected to provide 7.5 gigawatts of power generation capacity, creating a combined initial power plan of 15 gigawatts.

AI has quietly unlocked some of the biggest opportunities I've seen in content and marketing. Inside enterprise, the shift is already happening. Massive budgets are moving into AI-driven writing, editing, and distribution - because results are measurable and speed matters more.

Anthropic said this week it would soften the central commitment of its flagship safety framework, acknowledging that unilateral safety pledges won't survive a world where rivals have no such constraints. For a company that has long positioned itself as the AI industry's conscience, it was a remarkable reversal.