AI Product Updates: New Features and Releases

Mastercard and Cloudflare launched Agent Pay for Machines on Base, letting AI agents pay for digital services via x402.

AX1 on Base cut quest completion from 27 actions to 5 with the first five runs free, launched Episode 7, and pays top 50 agents in tokenized SpaceX stock.

Moove's Swap Agent combines token swaps and cross-chain bridges in one non-custodial API usable from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI.

Halo Arena is a battleground where users build and deploy AI agents to compete in strategy games like Clawpoly, Mafia and Liar's Dice, with a $20k closed beta season 2.

Cuddler added Kling 4 to its Video Studio/MCP and platform API with 720p and 1080p text-to-video and image-to-video, at 30% off launch pricing until Oct 31.

HaloArena launches closed beta season 2 with a $20k pool, full match transcripts, performance-based rankings, and quick onboarding for OpenClaw or Hermes agents.

An MIT-licensed open-source project connects to TradingView via a local browser and gives Codex, Claude Code and other agents chart reading, Pine Script editing, backtest analysis and alert management.

Browser automation now runs only via browser_exec, MCP trust prompts persist per tool, desktop plugins get their own folders and permissions, and the plugin catalog enforces requires_hermes.

Vangrid shipped a feature where an agent pays a USDC bounty, a person films the location, and a 3D model returns to the agent, settled in under a second.

An agent sends one request, gets a 402 with a price, signs a USDC payment on Base or Arc and retries to post a bounty — no account or API key needed.

Agent Dojo is live on Rarelist, letting users train AI agents with personalities, fighting styles and persistent memory for turn-based battles, with a 1,500 USDT prize pool running October 23 to November 6.

Salvor+ published an article detailing five planned $SALVOR token utilities, including contributor grants, premium MCP/API access, and x402 payments.