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

CNBC: DeepSeek V4 Preview

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

StartupFortune article

Anthropic postmortem (April 23)

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Microsoft Voluntary Buyout — 7% of US Workforce

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Topics for Today

Podping / namespace updates?

Feed cloning follow-up from 257 — any new developments?

Sovereign Feeds update — feed editing experience