Podcasting 2.0 - Episode 258: Perceptron

About this episode

Dave and Adam discuss the technical process of building a resource for auto-flagging spam podcasts.

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…

People in this episode

Host: Adam

Guest: Dave

Topics covered

• podcasting
• AI
• spam detection
• technology
• industry resources

Keywords

• podcasting
• AI
• DeepSeek
• spam
• technology
• Claude Code

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DeepSeek, Anthropic, CNN, CNBC

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