Episode 40: OpenClaw v2026.4.24, Project Deal, Claude Connectors, and the ComfyUI Control Bet

OpenClaw v2026.4.24 is the lead story and it deserves to be. The release adds Google Meet as a bundled participant plugin with personal auth, live voice transports, paired-node Chrome support, artifact and attendance export, and recovery flows for already-open tabs; it also adds deeper realtime agent consults across Talk, Voice Call, and Meet, brings safer browser automation and stronger tab recovery, refreshes bundled model catalogs around DeepSeek V4, and keeps startup lighter with more manifest-driven model and plugin plumbing. After that release deep dive, EP040 looks at Anthropic’s Project Deal marketplace experiment, Claude’s new personal-app connectors, and why ComfyUI’s rise suggests human-in-the-loop control is still the premium layer in AI media workflows. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-40/