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		<title>Podcasting 2.0 April 24th 2026 Episode 258 - &quot;Perceptron&quot;</title>
		<ownerName>Adam Curry</ownerName>
		<ownerEmail>adam@curry.com</ownerEmail>
		<dateModified>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:38:31 GMT</dateModified>
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		<outline text="Podcasting 2.0 April 24th 2026 Episode 258 - &quot;Perceptron&quot;">
			<outline text="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!"/>
			<outline text="We are the only Boardroom that aren't in the Islamabad peace talks"/>
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			<outline text="Boost Bait" type="link" url="https://github.com/ablekirby/BoostBait"/>
			<outline text="Boostagrams numerology" type="link" url="https://github.com/Podnews-LLC/boostagram-numerology"/>
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			<outline text="V4V Stats" type="link" url="https://stats.podcastindex.org/v4v"/>
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		<outline text="Shownotes">
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			<outline text="Booking Tag"/>
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			<outline text="DeepSeek V4 Released — Open Source AI From China">
				<outline text="DeepSeek V4 released April 24 — two variants: V4-Pro (1.6T params) and V4-Flash (284B params, 13B active)"/>
				<outline text="Open-weight MIT license, 1 million token context window"/>
				<outline text="Trained on domestic Chinese chips (Huawei Ascend, Cambricon) — not Nvidia"/>
				<outline text="V4-Flash: $0.14/M input tokens — cheapest frontier-class model available"/>
				<outline text="White House OSTP accusing China of &amp;#x27;industrial-scale&amp;#x27; distillation of US AI models"/>
				<outline text="Anthropic caught DeepSeek using 24,000 fake accounts and 16M exchanges to distill Claude"/>
				<outline text="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"/>
				<outline text="CNBC: DeepSeek V4 Preview" type="link" url="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/deepseek-v4-llm-preview-open-source-ai-competition-china.html"/>
				<outline text="CNN: White House Accuses China Copying American AI" type="link" url="https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/tech/white-house-accuses-china-copying-american-ai"/>
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			<outline text="Anthropic Claude Code Pricing Drama">
				<outline text="Anthropic quietly removed Claude Code from $20/month Pro plan on April 21"/>
				<outline text="Developer backlash immediate — reversed within hours"/>
				<outline text="Head of Growth: &amp;#x27;a test on 2% of new signups&amp;#x27; — but page changes were global"/>
				<outline text="Internal data: heavy users cost Anthropic $60-$150/month on a $20 subscription"/>
				<outline text="GitHub also suspended flat-rate Copilot signups, removed Claude Opus from $10 tier"/>
				<outline text="The AI subscription model is structurally broken — WeWork/Uber playbook"/>
				<outline text="StartupFortune article" type="link" url="https://startupfortune.com/anthropic-quietly-pulls-claude-code-from-pro-plan-and-hands-local-model-advocates-their-strongest-argument-yet/"/>
				<outline text="Anthropic postmortem (April 23)" type="link" url="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem"/>
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			<outline text="Microsoft Voluntary Buyout — 7% of US Workforce">
				<outline text="First voluntary retirement program in Microsoft&amp;#x27;s 51-year history"/>
				<outline text="&amp;#x27;Rule of 70&amp;#x27;: age + years of service = 70 or more"/>
				<outline text="~8,750 employees eligible, notified May 7, 30 days to decide"/>
				<outline text="Restructuring to shift workforce toward AI-focused roles"/>
				<outline text="TechCrunch" type="link" url="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/microsoft-offers-buyout-for-up-to-7-of-u-s-employees/"/>
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			<outline text="Topics for Today">
				<outline text="Podping / namespace updates?"/>
				<outline text="Feed cloning follow-up from 257 — any new developments?"/>
				<outline text="Sovereign Feeds update — feed editing experience"/>
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