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This Week in Lex Fridman Podcast (May 4 - May 10, 2026)

May 4May 10, 20261 episode4h 24m of content

This week, the Lex Fridman Podcast explored the often-invisible infrastructure that powers digital media. Episode 496 examined FFmpeg, the open-source software that has become fundamental to how video is processed and distributed across the internet, offering a technical deep dive into a tool most people use without knowing it exists.

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