Computer Use, a memory system for specialists, and collaborative Canvas

This is a big one. Specialists can now operate your Mac directly — moving the pointer, clicking, and typing — but only inside a session you explicitly approve, with a one-keystroke kill switch. They can also remember what matters across conversations through a new memory system you can search, control, and clear from settings. A collaborative Canvas lets you and your specialists sketch on a shared page, deep links open any screen in the app from a URL, invites became referrals, billing top-ups moved in-app, and notifications run on a faster, more reliable foundation.

Specialists can operate your Mac, with your approval

On macOS, a specialist can now take actions on your desktop on your behalf — moving the pointer, clicking, typing, scrolling, reading what’s on screen, and taking screenshots — to complete a task you’ve asked for end to end.

Control stays with you. Nothing happens until you approve a session, and you choose how far that approval reaches: a single action, everything inside one app, or the whole goal you described. A Cmd+Shift+. kill switch stops the specialist instantly at any time, and taking over the keyboard or mouse yourself yields control back to you. Sensitive moments are blocked outright — if a one-time passcode or two-factor prompt appears, the specialist hands the task back to you rather than acting. The capability is off until you turn it on and grant the macOS permissions it needs.

A memory system specialists can use

Specialists can now carry context forward. Instead of starting cold every time, they can remember durable details from your conversations and bring them back when they’re relevant, so you repeat yourself less.

You stay in charge of what’s kept. A new Memory panel under Settings → Configure lets you see and search what’s been remembered for the current workspace, check its health, and refresh it. Privacy controls let you set retention, export what’s stored for a scope, and delete entries — deleted content drops out of retrieval. Memory respects per-workspace rollout, so it only turns on where it’s enabled.

A collaborative Canvas

A new Canvas lives inside your channels — a shared, multi-page surface you and your specialists can work on together in real time. Drag and drop or paste in images and files, leave comments, mention a specialist to bring them onto the page, and export a snapshot when you’re done. Canvases link back into chat, tasks, projects, and knowledge as cards, so a sketch stays connected to the work around it.

Open any screen from a link

Links that start with theaiplatform.app now open the app directly to the right place — a specific channel or DM, the billing or subscribe screen, a workspace invite, or any tab in the app. You can also target a dev or nightly build of the app from the same link when you have one installed. Deep links into chat that you don’t have access to now show a clear no-access screen instead of failing silently.

Invites are now referrals

The old invite flow is now a referral system. Share a referral and the person who joins — and you — both benefit, with a clearer flow for what happens before and after they activate a subscription. Workspace invites are also fully manageable in-app now: pending invites show up under Settings → Personal with Accept and Decline buttons, declined invites stay visible to the admin who can resend or remove them, and there’s no more silent auto-accept — membership starts only when the invitee accepts. When a workspace is out of seats, the message explaining why is much clearer.

Billing top-ups moved into the app

You can now add credit and manage seats without leaving the app. A new Add Credit dialog handles top-ups — including coupon and promotion codes when you don’t have a payment method on file yet — and a confirmation step appears before any top-up or seat change so there are no surprises. Enterprise plans render their own view, and flat-rate coupons now price correctly across multi-seat plans.

A new notifications system

Notifications run on a rebuilt foundation that keeps your unread state accurate and delivers mentions, DMs, and reactions reliably. The presentation is more Slack-like: an ordinary unread message brightens a channel’s name without a numeric badge, while badges are reserved for things directed at you — direct mentions, @everyone/@here, and specialist attention. The Notifications settings screen explains that split. Notifications from a thread you’re taking part in now reach you correctly.

More for specialists

• Skills — a new Skills settings surface lets you browse, install, and edit skills, with a consent step before anything installs. Specialists can have skills attached from the builder, detail page, and command center, and your own skill changes resolve correctly at runtime.
• Microsoft Office — new Word, PowerPoint, and Excel specialists can read an Office file you’ve attached in chat and return an edited version, or create a new document, presentation, or spreadsheet from scratch.
• Specialists recover more gracefully when a conversation runs long — context overflows are classified by cause and compacted, and a /compact command plus a context-limit dialog give you a manual way to trim.
• Temporary provider outages are retried instead of failing the run, and bundled specialists have clearer empty-state copy.

Chat

• Real-time message deletion — deleting a message now removes it for everyone immediately and it stays gone after a restart.
• You can archive a project chat from its menu, edit your latest message by pressing the up arrow, edit messages inside thread panels, and reorder your channels by dragging them in the sidebar.
• @-mentions now render as Slack-style chips, bare channel mentions are clickable, messages can be translated inside threads, and unread channels and DMs show in bold.

Polish & fixes

You can now set per-domain rules in Settings → Preferences for which links open in your external browser, instead of a single all-or-nothing toggle. The language selector now makes clear it sets the translation target, not the app’s interface language. Idle CPU use on the desktop dropped, mixed-density and multi-monitor display scaling is handled correctly, and clicking the dock icon on macOS restores the main window. A round of accessibility work gives sliders, switches, and language controls proper names and keeps collapsed sidebar panels out of the keyboard tab order. The home screen got a broad cleanup — clearer headings, relative timestamps, consistent panel sizing, and fewer decorative extras. Profile pictures are resized before upload, the profile form rejects values that aren’t email addresses, legacy timezones are rewritten to canonical names, and a bug report draft now survives closing the dialog. Long plot and project names truncate cleanly, the error fallback screen is friendlier and offers a way to send feedback, and a wide batch of chat, workflow, and settings fixes round out the release. Behind the scenes, security and stability work hardens workspace permissions and overall reliability.