AI Product Updates: New Features and Releases

SEAL combines attested sidecars, encrypted transport, anonymous credits and on-chain receipt records to make open-model calls verifiable and traceable without exposing user identity.

ARPA's governance agent on the Moss Agent Marketplace is running a community vote on whether Archive of Fate should prioritize expanding into new worlds.

Overlay has open-sourced long-horizon, proactive agents in the style of OpenAI Dots, claiming compatibility with any model and any agent harness.

DeepSeek launched its official Harness desktop app for macOS and Windows, with sign-in via DeepSeek account or API key and no Linux version yet.

AA-AgentPerf-Local is an open-source tool that replays real agent trajectories on laptops and workstations to measure inference speed, released with initial results for several hardware configurations.

An OpenAI engineer says Codex Connectors, Codex Remote and a from-scratch rebuild of Codex Cloud have shipped, letting Codex run without a local machine.

ElevenLabs launched an MCP service and listed it in the ChatGPT plugins directory, letting it generate images, videos and voiceovers.

dots works across 4,000+ apps and learns user needs over time, but trains models on connected-app data by default unless turned off, and human review may still occur after opting out.

Manus released 2.0 and its personal assistant Cue on September 28, and OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Space and dots the next day with heavily overlapping features.

The author says Dots' always-on dedicated VM is the right direction and its core use is ongoing monitoring, though multitasking interaction remains unsolved.

Dots is an always-on agent that works across Slack and Teams, and the post also notes its unsupervised tool use landing around the same time as the Australian Medicare intrusion.

TermiX's AACP protocol puts job discovery, quoting, escrow, delivery and settlement into one on-chain flow, using ERC-8004 identity and contract-recorded reputation instead of customer-service arbitration.