TL;DL v2.6.0 — Claude Opus 5.5 summaries and M4A support

Episode summaries are now written by Claude Opus 5.5, episode pages link to the episode itself, and long M4A episodes now transcribe. This release also cuts down on failed episodes from Substack-hosted shows. What's new Summaries are written by Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. In side-by-side tests on real transcripts it was more specific, stayed closer to what was actually said, and kept nearer the 400 to 600 word target than the GPT model it replaced. Acronyms are spelled out the first time they appear in a summary or deck, so a guest's "UGC" or "ICP" comes with its full name. Episode pages link to the episode on Apple Podcasts, plus the publisher's own episode page and the podcast's website where those exist. Most episodes used to link to the show's Apple page, and few had a website link. Fixes M4A episodes larger than 25 MB transcribe. They used to fail every time, because the file was split in a way that left every piece after the first unreadable. Each piece is now a complete audio…

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