# The **epic** story of Markdown

Hello, and welcome to the VergeCast, the flagship podcast of asterisks and underlines. I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show, we're going to talk about Markdown.

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1. 01Hello, and welcome to the VergeCast, the flagship podcast of asterisks and underlines
2. 02The big news all weekend was the US government's bid to shut down Fable, the new super powerful AI model Anthropic released last week
3. 03It's not entirely clear that the government can actually do this, but Anthropic did in fact shut off the model