Scoops
Original reporting and exclusives.
- SCOOP: Kimi is building its own answer to Claude Science
RuntimeWire found an unannounced scientific workbench inside Kimi’s desktop app, with viewers for molecules, genomes and medical scans—and code connecting research selections directly to chat.
- Report: CFTC warns Kalshi it could face charges over product filings
The regulator is investigating whether Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara's $40B exchange properly notified it about new products, POLITICO reports.
- Physical Intelligence job postings describe manufacturing its own robots at increasing volume
Karol Hausman and Lachy Groom's model lab lists manufacturing, supply-chain and build roles for making its own robotic systems at increasing volume. The postings reviewed carry no publication dates.
- Megaspeed changed owners twice in eight months before its Malaysian affiliate bought $4.8B in Nvidia-linked equipment
Culper Research went short Nvidia on May 13th, 2026, arguing over 20% of fiscal 2026 compute revenue remained China-driven and that Megaspeed's $2.9B in unnamed deposits and a Speedmatrix charge to Alibaba's Apex point to financing Nvidia's no-Chinese-shareholders account never addressed.
- SCOOP: ChatGPT hides a gated Gmail shopping tab that turns your inbox into a store
Last year you had to prompt Gmail-connected ChatGPT to "find my Black Friday codes" [Domaine guide, Nov 2025]. Now OpenAI is productizing it. A hidden Email Offers tab in the Windows package adds offer cards with "Not verified - Email source" labels, expiry dates, coupon codes, source email links, retailer links, and a local reference that auto-expires after 30 days or the stated expiry.
- EXCLUSIVE: Layer3 has not told the White House about 236 proxy exits from its network, founder says
Layer3 Intel recorded 236 proxy exits from six White House network addresses over 30 days. In an exclusive interview, founder Sergiy Usatyuk told RuntimeWire the company will not disclose the addresses and has not notified anyone about the findings.
- Ex-Bubblemaps developer alleges a $45,000-a-month Proxima contract was never disclosed
Jujudog says he quit Bubblemaps after finding a $45,000-a-month Proxima advisory deal, and his rival TrapMap has given Bubblemaps until November 16th to respond.
- Anthropic's Windows app bundles per-folder worktree controls for Claude Code
RuntimeWire found gated local and SSH setup code in Windows build 2.31226.0; if worktree creation fails, an added repository can remain in place.
- ChatGPT code reveals permanent email addresses for dots and fixed work-account handles
OpenAI is building a native email-address setup flow for ChatGPT dots, with permanent personal handles, fixed work-account addresses and controls for activating email under the agent’s existing permissions, according to code RuntimeWire found in the official Windows app.
- TechCrunch's America.gov Minecraft report omits RuntimeWire's earlier scoop
TechCrunch published its account after RuntimeWire's report, without crediting the outlet or explaining how it found the poem. The record supports scrutiny of that omission, but does not establish copying.
- Perplexity testing New Gmail triggers that could wake AI when email arrives
Code in desktop build 26.9.4 shows a new-email event, seven filters and backend subscription routes behind an internal allowlist.
- X sues Bitcoin account network it says farmed $279,000 in creator payouts
The High Court complaint links six monetized accounts through payment records, shared device identifiers and near-identical posts published seconds apart.
- OpenAI is preparing a new Codex Cloud with Tailscale and Azure workload identity
Desktop build 9922 separates "Cloud" from "Cloud (Legacy)" and wires an environment-drafting agent to private-network access, proxy-delivered secrets and cloud identities behind a feature gate.
- Hidden Claude Desktop code reveals an unreleased self-hosted session endpoint
Coder had already disclosed customer-workspace execution; RuntimeWire found an unreleased Desktop setting that reroutes session APIs, but the relationship remains unresolved.
- Receipts: RuntimeWire mapped OpenAI's Office workflow 20 days early
Our August 28th reverse engineering found private assignments, review batching and persistent XLSX/PPTX edits inside OpenAI's desktop client.
- OpenAI wants a head-to-head with Claude Code—using your own work
Build 8881 targets successful Claude Code importers with a plugin that reruns an imported task in Codex for a direct comparison.
- Kimi quietly sends full user prompts into ByteDance’s China-based analytics pipeline
I intercepted a verbatim Kimi Work 3.2.7 prompt inside a `kimi_work_send_message` event uploaded to Volcano Engine's DataFinder analytics system, alongside user, conversation and device identifiers. The company's specific disclosure for the analytics SDK lists device, network, location and application information, without specifically naming conversation text.
- Microsoft let Anthropic move in while OpenAI was sleeping on the couch
An unreleased Claude for Windows build shows Anthropic wiring itself deeper into Microsoft’s enterprise identity stack, as the partnership that defined the first years of the AI boom becomes increasingly less exclusive.
- Microsoft is falling asleep at the wheel as hidden code reveals Google’s big Windows AI push
Google once went to antitrust regulators to pry open Microsoft’s desktop search. Nearly 20 years later, hidden code shows it building an AI layer across Windows itself.
- OpenAI is preparing to pay you in ChatGPT credits for using Stripe, HubSpot and other plugins
A gated Windows flow requires users to install a selected plugin and complete a successful action before credits reach their workspace.
- Antigravity code reveals Gemini-powered Vetted mode
Version 2.12.2 contains a gated permission preset that assigns a second AI system to approve or reject an agent's proposed actions.
- Google Antigravity is testing Concierge, a voice activated coding assistant and bot wrangler
The dev-only interface proposes reviewing agent conversations and code changes, with finalized speech sent automatically to a dedicated agent.
- Grok Bot is building server-synced memory for its AI coworkers
Desktop version 0.39.0 defines list and put operations for per-agent profiles and logs behind a rollout gate, but its packaged code reveals no confirmed call site or conflict semantics.
- OpenAI is testing a Codex dashboard that shows which chats are eating your usage limits
Windows build 7868 can rank up to 100 Work and Codex chats by five-hour, weekly and credit use, with a new system designed to include subagent activity under the parent task.