# Episode 258: Perceptron

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Podcast: [Podcasting 2.0](https://stenobird.com/podcast/podcasting-2-0-920666)
Published: 2026-04-24T19:40:13+00:00
Episode link: https://www.podpage.com/podcasting-20/perceptron/
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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! Shownotes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Booking Tag ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ti…

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