The Edge

Will Marshall says Planet Labs imagery showed troops building up on the border of Ukraine before the full-scale invasion, and Ukraine still uses that data to watch threats before they reach the border. The edge he describes is information against a larger conventional force. Russia has more troops, tanks, missiles, and planes. Ukraine does not want to be invaded, and it has used drones, satellites, and AI to see earlier. He does not go into the operational details.

Other governments asked for the same daily picture after watching that use. The US Navy monitors the South China Sea with it, about 13 million square kilometers of ocean, slightly larger than the United States, looking for illega

Peter Diamandis says an Anthropic SEC filing shows Claude authored 90% of September 2026 code contributions, and the share was over 90%. Daily code contributions per engineer at Claude were 45 times higher than two years ago.

The first figure is the share of that month's code contributions authored by Claude. The second is the one that blew his mind: daily output per engineer at 45 times the level from two years earlier. He repeats the multiple so nobody hears it as 45%. He calls 45 times an insane number. Both figures are what the filing showed, and he treats them as the edge of how code is now getting written.

Shane Parrish says K.C. Irving told a packed Senate hearing in Ottawa that he had never taken a salary, fee, or anything else from the newspapers, and that in 25 years they had paid him no dividends. The profits stayed inside the business.

Federal investigators had already searched the Irving newspapers, the offices and homes of senior executives, and K.C. Irving's house, carrying away thousands of documents. A Senate committee summoned him to Ottawa. The night before his testimony he sat on the edge of his hotel bed, working past midnight on his statement. He was 70, and for a quarter century had said almost nothing publicly about his newspapers. He had to explain why he owned every Englis

Jake Stauch says Serval has no product function. Engineers talk with customers every day, so product development sits with the engineering team. They adapt to what customers say today versus what customers said a month ago. The product ships and changes faster than anyone can keep up, including him.

Serval hires engineers who understand customers and puts them in front of customers, because so many decisions happen at the edge and not every product decision can rise to leadership. Leadership has to push product decision-making down, move fast, undo a wrong turn, revert, and kill work the team was committed to. When engineers show how the customer sees the product now, leadership changes cou

Jon Noronha says a startup should build its own agent harness when the job looks very different from plain coding. For Gamma the work is subjective: two people disagree about what good looks like, a human stays in the loop, and the person using the tool cares about the specifics. He treats those traits as the test.

A personal video game is one opening he is bullish on. Coding agents already make games, and they are weaker at taking in what the player wants, the way non-coders shape Roblox or Minecraft. He can imagine a harness that runs inside a 3D world. The practical rule is to build something that looks nothing like what everyone else is shipping, then keep moving, because copies trail b

Uwe Horstmann says Stark wants its systems to be about as complex to manufacture as a washing machine, because that is what mass production requires.

A two-year-old company can prototype the way a startup does and still design the item for a factory from the beginning. Visitors who know operations looked at the line and said it was about as complex as a washing machine. Horstmann took that as the target. His comparison is ordinary volume: going from a thousand units a month toward ten thousand a month, or a million a year, is hard, and it is still a problem factories already know how to approach. He is describing that class of product. He does not say Stark is building those quantities.

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Eric Schmidt gives the United States the edge on leadership and talent, then says the country is giving that edge away. Taking the smartest people, arresting them, kicking them out, and denying them visas is a bad strategy. The pattern he calls out is graduate students, typically from China and from other countries: the United States gives them a PhD and then makes them leave.

One person who wanted to stay in America now leads China's quantum program. Schmidt says the quantum adversary is China and that person. The country trained him, then kicked him out, and he went on to lead the rival program. Schmidt still scores leadership and talent for the United States. The loss, as he tells it, is

Nick Kokonas knows he is taking enough risk when a morning feels close to throwing up and he has not thrown up yet. He is motivated by fear of not living up to the possibilities. Waking up feeling great means the risk is too low. Waking up throwing up means the risk is too high. The aim is a tingle of uncomfortableness, and the original word for the feeling is nausea. The line stayed as a check on whether he was still learning and still pushing the edge of what the possibilities are.

Keith Goggin, a good friend and former business partner, gave him the line while they traded in the 90s and early aughts. They held a ridiculous short position on Plug Power, and the company still exists. Kokon

Ari Weinstein says Astra moved computer use forward at the edges even though computer-use models were already strong before Astra. It is a little faster on average because it uses fewer thinking tokens to do the same task. It is better at creative work, and it is more reliable around the edges.

In the launch video, someone talks to the model while it draws in Microsoft Paint, and Astra is way better at that sort of work. Weinstein thinks the improvement probably transfers to other creative tasks. He trusts it a little more. A small difference that is hard to perceive still matters between something being 99 percent reliable and 97 percent reliable, and Astra sits a little higher in a way th

Andrew Huberman says aiming vision at one target raises arousal and the ability to recruit physical energy and mental energy. Opening the gaze does the reverse: the body relaxes, and less energy can be sent to one place.

Animals with eyes on the side of the head tend to be prey and take in a panorama. Animals with eyes in front tend to be predators and get stronger depth perception. Some animals can shift the eyes from a wide view to a focused view. Human eyes stay fixed in the head, but moving vision toward a vergence point, a target, still raises arousal. People in the fight game know the narrow view. Dilating the gaze is like coming off the gas pedal. Vision and time perception are linke

Jordan B. Peterson says the word Eve, in Hebrew, means something like combatant and ally in a military struggle. To be married is to have someone with you so you can battle as a unity against the social and natural catastrophes of life, while each of you puts the other on the edge so both people develop and the relationship develops too.

The reason for that edge is further development. With kids, the aim is not to pack them in styrofoam and store them in the basement where nothing can damage them. A child should be out contending with the world, striving upward and expanding past the current limits of ability. A wise, encouraging parent pushes the child to the edge. Push too far and the chi

Dane Knecht says people who cannot afford four red teams, or who never had a red team and still run important systems, should put their sites and infrastructure behind Cloudflare and build on Cloudflare. When major vulnerabilities come out, like the React one last year, Cloudflare gives the protection to everyone, including customers beyond the paid plans with the advanced firewall and WAF capabilities. Cloudflare treats that protection as part of the utility, in the same way it wants to provide performance for everyone.

Before Cloudflare started, probably 3,000 sites in the world had a large-scale CDN to cache their stuff at the edge. Now hundreds of millions of sites do. Cloudflare has al

George Kurtz guarantees that chips will get faster and cheaper, though he does not know the exact trajectory. Open weight models, certainly the U.S. models, still have a lot of room to grow, and big advances are coming in shrinking them so they run on a phone.

Chips used to sit out of fashion. They are in fashion now, and more of them will be needed, along with faster chips and more specialized ones. Breakthroughs are coming in the chip world. He treats Moore's law as a bit dated, yet new chips have already made computing faster and cheaper. Specialized chips aimed at particular areas, plus new science around the mathematics, can create step function increases in performance and use less po

The Edge talks himself out of leaving by hiring the same people back. He starts an inner argument about getting out of the band, then answers his own questions until Bono is the singer, he stays on guitar, and the rhythm section is the one he already plays with. He says that lineup basically redesigns the band, and there is no doubt about where he belongs.

The questions run in order. He asks what he wants to do with his life. He is a creative person and music is his main thing, so he stays in music. On singing, he says he really wants to be the singer, and he is really happy being a guitar player. The singer he most likes to work with is clearly Bono, so a solo thing still has Bono on vocal

Bono says U2 has very little say over prices in the live business. The band takes the best seats in the house and makes them often the most affordable.

The affordable seats are the ones up front, within the heart or within the circle. Bono says U2 has done it all their life and always finds a way. The band also has no problem separating rich people from their money. Speaking to the Edge, Bono says rich people have feelings, and if they want to pay very high prices, U2 has no problem with it.

In America, Bono wants people to feel really good about the choice to pay a ticket to see U2, even when the price is probably too much. The show will challenge them, but not on the obvious.

Tim Cook, when the idea was pitched, asked why anyone who spent a whole life getting people to pay for music would give something away free. After the then-new album landed in people's iTunes without asking, the giveaway turned into a debacle people were mad about, and the same objection came back.

Bono says the band was experimenting. They wanted Apple, or another company, to pay for the music and then distribute it the way a record label does, because fixing music is going to take experimentation. Pay for other musicians is astonishingly small and frightening. Bono sees it in his son's band, Inhaler, a really successful outfit, and it is still very hard to imagine how a young band like U2

The Edge says the pivot after the Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum happened because they were being robbed of aspects of who they were. The work did not reflect them, and neither did people's understanding and perception of them.

They can get very heavy and very deep. When they are together working they have a lot of fun, laugh a lot at each other and at themselves, and fail a lot. The Edge says they are comfortable with failing, because you do not get somewhere great unless you are prepared to fail.

He feels a little bit of a responsibility to address what they see going wrong with the world, but they cannot do it incessantly. On the album they touch the subject lightly and skip names, beca

Bono calls the moment the most extraordinary moment and the greatest heist in the history of the world. He says the heist is stealing America, that it is real, and that it is happening. He says it is not a caper movie.

Bono says a discussion about the administration is fine once it stays separate from a discussion about the left and the right and conservatives and liberals. He does not want to put off good people who vote conservative and who vote Republican. He says their party has been hijacked in an aggressive takeover of the GOP. People vote conservative for all kinds of reasons that are okay, and Bono wants to invite them back.

He says the problem is serious, and the dealings are pers

Bono says the album is about evil, and that people should be grateful because evil is out in the open. On Days of Ash, the songs name names. He is not sure the conversation has been public, but he spoke with Renee Good's family. Bono says she was killed by ICE agents in Minnesota.

A week later they wrote a song about her. The lyric says America will rise up against the people of the lie, and Bono also speaks it as America will rise against the people of the lie. The Edge had given Bono M. Scott Peck's book The People of the Lie 30 years ago. The book is about the nature of evil and a study of malignant narcissism. Bono asked the family for permission on Zoom before using the lyric. He descr

Bono always saw U2 in some sort of mythological sense. The names came from a wish to escape suburbia and discover other selves. They gave the other selves names. The Ramones were the key, and the Ramones are really well drawn characters.

David Marchese asks why Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. did not take stage names too. The Edge says that at that age they laughed a lot, at each other and at themselves. The deal was that you could laugh at others if you were prepared to allow them to laugh at you. The Edge says the names were not necessarily designed for a heroic aspect. Bono's very first name was Steinrich van Heyschen bang, bang, bang. The Edge went by another name for a while before b