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Podcasting 2.0 April 24th 2026 Episode 258 - "Perceptron"
Dave and Adam walk through the entire technical process of building an industry resource for auto-flagging spam and slop podcasts. It's a doozy!
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DeepSeek V4 Released — Open Source AI From China
DeepSeek V4 released April 24 — two variants: V4-Pro (1.6T params) and V4-Flash (284B params, 13B active)
Open-weight MIT license, 1 million token context window
Trained on domestic Chinese chips (Huawei Ascend, Cambricon) — not Nvidia
V4-Flash: $0.14/M input tokens — cheapest frontier-class model available
White House OSTP accusing China of 'industrial-scale' distillation of US AI models
Anthropic caught DeepSeek using 24,000 fake accounts and 16M exchanges to distill Claude
Our own testing: DeepSeek V3.1 on Together.ai is 4-10x faster and half the cost of Llama 3.3 70B for production tasks
CNN: White House Accuses China Copying American AI
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Anthropic Claude Code Pricing Drama
Anthropic quietly removed Claude Code from $20/month Pro plan on April 21
Developer backlash immediate — reversed within hours
Head of Growth: 'a test on 2% of new signups' — but page changes were global
Internal data: heavy users cost Anthropic $60-$150/month on a $20 subscription
GitHub also suspended flat-rate Copilot signups, removed Claude Opus from $10 tier
The AI subscription model is structurally broken — WeWork/Uber playbook
Anthropic postmortem (April 23)
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Microsoft Voluntary Buyout — 7% of US Workforce
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Podping / namespace updates?
Feed cloning follow-up from 257 — any new developments?
Sovereign Feeds update — feed editing experience
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