Podcasting 2.0
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Episode 258: Perceptron
APR 24, 202699 MIN
Episode 258: Perceptron
APR 24, 202699 MIN
Description
<p>Podcasting 2.0 April 24th 2026 Episode 258 - "Perceptron"</p>
<p>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!</p>
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<p>Shownotes</p>
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<p>Booking Tag</p>
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<p>DeepSeek V4 Released — Open Source AI From China</p>
<p>DeepSeek V4 released April 24 — two variants: V4-Pro (1.6T params) and V4-Flash (284B params, 13B active)</p>
<p>Open-weight MIT license, 1 million token context window</p>
<p>Trained on domestic Chinese chips (Huawei Ascend, Cambricon) — not Nvidia</p>
<p>V4-Flash: $0.14/M input tokens — cheapest frontier-class model available</p>
<p>White House OSTP accusing China of 'industrial-scale' distillation of US AI models</p>
<p>Anthropic caught DeepSeek using 24,000 fake accounts and 16M exchanges to distill Claude</p>
<p>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</p>
<p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/deepseek-v4-llm-preview-open-source-ai-competition-china.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNBC: DeepSeek V4 Preview</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/tech/white-house-accuses-china-copying-american-ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN: White House Accuses China Copying American AI</a></p>
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<p>Anthropic Claude Code Pricing Drama</p>
<p>Anthropic quietly removed Claude Code from $20/month Pro plan on April 21</p>
<p>Developer backlash immediate — reversed within hours</p>
<p>Head of Growth: 'a test on 2% of new signups' — but page changes were global</p>
<p>Internal data: heavy users cost Anthropic $60-$150/month on a $20 subscription</p>
<p>GitHub also suspended flat-rate Copilot signups, removed Claude Opus from $10 tier</p>
<p>The AI subscription model is structurally broken — WeWork/Uber playbook</p>
<p><a href="https://startupfortune.com/anthropic-quietly-pulls-claude-code-from-pro-plan-and-hands-local-model-advocates-their-strongest-argument-yet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">StartupFortune article</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthropic postmortem (April 23)</a></p>
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<p>Microsoft Voluntary Buyout — 7% of US Workforce</p>
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<p>Topics for Today</p>
<p>Podping / namespace updates?</p>
<p>Feed cloning follow-up from 257 — any new developments?</p>
<p>Sovereign Feeds update — feed editing experience</p>
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