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Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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DeepSeek dropped V4 Pro and V4 Flash, undercutting US labs on price by roughly 5x. OpenAI fired back with GPT-5.5, reclaiming benchmark crowns from Claude. Meta confirms 8,000 layoffs on May 20, and Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic. DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months (Bloomberg) Simon Willison's comparison chart of DeepSeek V4 pricing vs. US frontier models (Simon Willison) OpenAI says "GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving", performs "at a much higher level of intelligence", and is more capable for Codex (OpenAI) Meta plans to cut 10% of its employees, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, trying to boost efficiency and offset its heavy AI spending (Bloomberg) Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic: $10B now at a $350B valuation, with another $30B if Anthropic hits performance targets (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions A look at the AI nonprofit METR, maker of maybe the most important AI benchmark, whose time-horizon metrics are used by researchers and Wall Street to track AI development (NYT) The Infinite Machine Olto e-bike review: a more elegant solution for trips too long to walk but too short to drive (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Instagram teen accounts with automatic protections on who can contact teenagers and the content they can see.
0:07.0	Instagram teen accounts have contact limits on by default, so teenagers get messages from people they know, not strangers,
0:15.0	and default content settings.
0:17.0	Plus, teenagers under 16 can't change these default settings without parental approval.
0:22.8	So parents can help teenagers connect safely.
0:26.5	Learn more at Instagram.com slash teen accounts.
0:34.1	Welcome to the TechBoo ride home for Friday, April 24th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today. DeepSeek dropped V4 Pro and V4 Flash undercutting U.S.
0:42.6	Labs on price by roughly 5X. Open AI fired back with GPD 5.5, reclaiming benchmark crowns from Claude.
0:50.2	Meta confirms 8,000 layoffs, Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic,
0:55.5	and of course, the weekend long-range suggestions.
0:58.2	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
1:04.1	Today's episode is brought to you by Dopple.
1:06.9	Disguises are getting pretty good these days,
1:08.7	and I'm not just talking about when you throw on a pair of glasses and a hoodie and hope you won't be recognized.
1:13.4	We're talking about the kind of disguises that end up in your inbox on your phone or on the web,
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