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What Is a DAC? - DTNS 4794

Season 11, Ep. 4794

What are DACs and how can they make your music listening experience better? Anthropic releases its newest model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet, comparing it to OpenAI’s GPT 4o. And reviewers raise issues with Google's new “Find My Device” network.


Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Rob DeMillo, Roger Chang, Joe.


Link to the Show Notes.

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