Have you heard these exciting AI news? - April 10, 2026 AI Updates Weekly

Have you heard these exciting AI news? - April 10, 2026 AI Updates Weekly Presented by Lev Selector Slides on GDrive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dmj00iilSP-JYmriMUUaHCKz5X54e3UX?ths=true Slides on GitHub - https://github.com/lselector/seminar (click on pptx file, then on "raw" or download button on the right) ------------------------------------------------------- Question to you: Which "Claw" or other desktop "Digital Employee" you recommend? ------------------------------------------------------- Need AI Consulting ? - Enterprise AI Solutions - https://EAIS.ai - Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/levselector - GitHub - https://github.com/lselector ------------------------------------------------------- Our books: "Artificial Intelligence In Business: Strategies That Work" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKZ3364G/ "AI Product Manager: Building Tomorrow" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMS9NFK9/ "How to Learn with AI?: A Practical Guide for Students, Professionals, and Self-Learners" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWLNVQMJ/ "Professional + AI: Future-Proofing Your Career" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBXLCTZQ "FP&A + AI: How to Work Faster, Smarter, and Deliver More Value" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY6Z5BBW --------- Contents of today's video: 00:00 Intro 00:08 "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change" 00:32 "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work yet getting the work done" 00:54 Crowd-sourced "LM Arena" Leaderboard 02:06 MemPalace Memory System 03:45 Anthropic Managed Agents 04:29 Agentic AI Solutions 08:32 Claude Buddy - virtual pet built into Claude Code 09:07 Anthropic Restricts Third-Party Claude Usage 09:22 OpenClaw Updates 09:39 Claude Code Updates 10:06 Matt Berman challenged Hacker 10:24 Journey, a registry for AI agent workflow kits 11:27 Google Gemma 4 family of open-source models 12:01 OpenAgents - Multi-Agent Platform 12:25 Abacus CoWork 13:04 Meta Muse Spark 14:12 Perplexity Computer Tax Prep 14:36 Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio 14:50 Deep Learning NYU Course 2020 15:25 Edgeclaw open-source privacy for AI agents 15:46 OpenClaw + Ollama + Qwen 3.5 16:01 The Anthropic vs. Pentagon dispute 16:33 Claude Code with the Qwen 3.6 Plus model 16:55 TRIZ & AI 18:36 HERE.NOW 19:06 HeyGen Avatar V 19:31 Ole Lehmann Used Council Approach 20:29 Hermes Agent - open-source, self-improving 21:09 Karpathy's wiki + Hermes Agent 21:39 Karpathy's Obsidian RAG + Claude Code 22:01 Graphify - Claude Code + Obsidian wiki 22:38 Obsidian plus Claude 23:03 Microsoft MAI Models 23:20 Cursor 3.0 - a major update 23:39 Alibaba Wan 2.1 AI video model - open-source 23:53 Claude's Microsoft 365 connector 24:20 Anthropic Claude Mythos Preview 25:04 Caveman plugin/skill for Claude Code 27:26 Jobs & Layoffs ---- Takeaways: 1. AI agents are rapidly replacing traditional software workflows. Desktop agents like OpenClaw, Hermes, and Abacus CoWork are making it possible to automate computer tasks, turning users from coders into managers of AI agents. 2. Lightweight memory systems like MemPalace and Karpathy's Obsidian RAG show that personal and small business AI setups do not need heavy enterprise infrastructure. Simple tools like ChromaDB, SQLite, and markdown wikis are sufficient. 3. The competitive landscape is intensifying across all fronts. Meta released Muse Spark, Google open-sourced Gemma 4, Alibaba released Wan 2.1, and Anthropic is holding back their powerful Mythos model due to safety concerns. ---- Quotes: "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." - Stephen Hawking "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work yet getting the work done." - Linus Torvalds "Periods of social instability are historically the best times for individual growth." ---- Summary: In this talk Lev Selector covers the AI landscape for the week of April 10, 2026. The discussion spans the LM Arena leaderboard where Claude leads, the MemPalace hierarchical memory system for agents, Anthropic's new managed agents service, and a broad survey of the agentic AI explosion including OpenClaw, Hermes, Cursor 3.0, and many others. Notable news includes Meta's Muse Spark model, Google's open-source Gemma 4, Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model held back for safety, the Anthropic vs Pentagon dispute resolution, and practical tools like the Caveman token-reduction plugin, HeyGen avatars, and Karpathy-inspired Obsidian RAG workflows for personal knowledge management. ---- Keywords: AI agents, Claude, OpenClaw, Hermes, LM Arena, MemPalace, Anthropic, managed agents, Gemma 4, Meta Muse Spark, Cursor 3.0, TRIZ, Obsidian RAG, Karpathy, HeyGen, Caveman plugin, Mythos, Perplexity, Abacus CoWork, OpenAgents ---- ---- ----