Have you heard these exciting AI news? - April 17, 2026 AI Updates Weekly

Have you heard these exciting AI news? - April 17, 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: Do you use a personal Digital "Employee"? If not, then why not? It is so easy to start! ------------------------------------------------------- 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 AI Updates - Apr 17, 2026 00:10 Anthropic 30x growth in 15 months 00:42 Crowd-sourced "LM Arena" Leaderboard 01:18 Anthropic Plugins 02:46 MCP - Model Context Protocol 04:04 Claude Mythos 05:13 Claude Opus 4.7 05:58 Claude Agent SDK 08:08 OpenClaw Updates 09:00 Claude Code & Claude Desktop Updates 10:14 Claude Code Skills, Plugins, CLIs 11:44 Work with Google Work Space (GWS) 12:53 33 Claude Skills and more resources 13:16 InfraNodus - Generate Ideas 13:47 Cognee gives your AI a persistent memory 14:03 Adding Workflow Builder to your Agent 14:56 More Desktop Agents 17:29 Seedance 2.0 Video Generation 17:46 Topview AI Agent V2 uses Seedance 2.0 18:01 Railway Deployment 19:51 Moonshots Podcast 246 20:33 AI is no longer Optional 21:09 AI Agency "SureThing" 21:33 How to setup Hermes Agent 22:22 Convert Claude Code into ClaudeClaw 23:08 Anthropic ARR $30B vs $25B OpenAI 24:07 Jobs & Layoffs ---- Takeaways: 1. Anthropic revenue grew 30x in 15 months, from 1 billion to 30 billion annualized, overtaking OpenAI at 25 billion. This is a phase transition, not a trend. 2. Claude Opus 4.7 now leads most benchmarks, but it uses more tokens and costs more, so early testers suggest staying on 4.6 until the benefits are clearer. 3. The Claude ecosystem has become very rich. Plugins, skills, the Agent SDK, Claude Code, and Claude Desktop give ready made solutions for almost any task, including Google Workspace, memory, workflow building, and deployment. ---- Quotes: "Anthropic 30 times growth in 15 months is not a trend, it is a phase transition." "A collection of those text files crushed the market." "You actually have no choice, you have to use AI." ---- Summary: In this talk I cover the AI updates for April 17, 2026. Anthropic grew 30x in 15 months and now leads OpenAI in annual recurring revenue at 30 billion versus 25 billion. Claude Opus 4.7 was released and leads most benchmarks, though it costs more. Anthropic published 33 open source plugins on GitHub that disrupted the SaaS market. I explain MCP, the new Claude Mythos cybersecurity model, the Claude Agent SDK, and updates to OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Claude Desktop. I review skills and plugins including CLIs, Google Workspace integration, InfraNodus for idea generation, Cognee for persistent memory, and a workflow builder. I cover new desktop agents from Google, OpenAI, and Perplexity, Seedance 2.0 video generation, Topview AI Agent V2, and Railway for deployment. I also discuss the Moonshots podcast, why AI is no longer optional, the SureThing AI agency, how to set up the Hermes agent, and how to convert Claude Code into ClaudeClaw. Finally I cover layoffs and job trends. ---- Keywords: Anthropic, Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos, MCP, plugins, skills, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, OpenClaw, ClaudeClaw, Google Workspace, InfraNodus, Cognee, workflow builder, desktop agents, Gemini, OpenAI, Perplexity, Seedance 2.0, Topview, Railway, Hermes agent, SureThing, agent orchestration, revenue growth, layoffs ---- ---- ----