OpenAI launches dots always-on agents, alongside a roundup of undo capabilities
OpenAI introduced dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computer whose sensitive actions go through auto-review, and the post also covers the Planarian rollback preprint and Restate's funding.
Can you undo what your AI agent did? - OpenAI launched dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computer. Background work uses read-only tools. Actions that touch your accounts or share information go through auto-review, which decides whether they proceed, need your approval, or stay with you. Rolling out to Pro and Business Premium. OpenAI says to review consequential work. - A new preprint, Planarian, rolls agents back. Local changes are restored from snapshots. Remote changes are reversed by recorded compensating actions. Up to 15x better task quality in the authors' tests. Not peer reviewed. - Restate raised a $20M Series A, reported by http://Tech.eu, for durable execution. After a crash it skips steps that already completed, so a retry does not pay twice. The common point: some actions restore from a copy, some need a second action to reverse, and some cannot be taken back. The check belongs in front of the last group. Last week we asked what an agent actually did. This week is about what you can do once you know. On Teneo, an agent must pass review before it goes public, users see the price before a task runs, and payment goes through x402 and settles on-chain. The SDK does not document refunds, disputes or duplicate-payment protection. So treat a paid call as a step with no undo: confirm the command, the price and that this request has not already been paid, using a request key your client stores before it sends. A useful test this week: stop one agent run halfway, restart it, and see whether anything runs twice. Read the full round-up here: https://teneo-protocol.ai/blog/can-you-undo-what-your-ai-agent-did