Investigations
Original reporting, documents and technical research
- Ahead of Meta Connect, Muse's Mac app shows an email address for your AI assistant
A gated setup flow lets users choose an @muse.ai address for their agent, but the client inspection cannot show whether Meta will enable it at Connect.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Original analysis · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 23rd, 2026, 12:26am CT
- 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.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Original analysis · Based on documents, reverse engineering, data analysis · By Ryan Merket · Sep 20th, 2026, 9:59pm CT
- 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.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Original analysis · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 20th, 2026, 10:26am CT
- 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.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Original analysis · Based on documents, reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 13th, 2026, 9:10pm CT
- 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.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Exclusive · Based on documents, testing, reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 11th, 2026, 11:52am CT
- 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.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Original analysis · Based on documents, reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 10th, 2026, 2:03pm CT
- 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.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering, documents · By Ryan Merket · Sep 7th, 2026, 2:51am CT
- 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.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 6th, 2026, 4:08am CT
- 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.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 4th, 2026, 8:57pm CT
- 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.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 4th, 2026, 5:42pm CT
- 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.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 4th, 2026, 3:52pm CT
- 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.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 4th, 2026, 2:27pm CT
- Claude Desktop is ready to test Android apps, whenever Anthropic flips the switch
Production packages include Android Studio setup, ADB controls, screenshots, recordings and device permissions, while public docs remain iOS-only.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 3rd, 2026, 11:58pm CT
- OpenAI quietly ships "Watch and fix" for Codex pull requests
The production desktop app can assign Codex to keep checking a PR every 10 minutes, repair CI failures and merge conflicts, push fixes, and optionally continue until the pull request merges.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on testing, documents · By Ryan Merket · Sep 3rd, 2026, 5:37pm CT
- OpenAI is turning Flipper’s BUSY Bar into a physical ChatGPT status light
RuntimeWire found a hidden, disabled-by-default BUSY Bar control in the latest desktop build, plus a dedicated animation package for task, ready, pending, error and disconnected states.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 3rd, 2026, 2:40am CT
- Kimi Work 3.2.4's hidden system prompt override triggered local file reads without approval
A controlled Windows test reproduced the read in Manual approval mode; a restored-default control stayed clean, and no network transmission occurred.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Sep 2nd, 2026, 5:05pm CT
- Anthropic asks court to restrict Reddit’s AI team from Claude’s trade secrets
Anthropic says Reddit's internal AI work makes some in-house counsel a competitive risk during discovery.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on documents, public records · By Ryan Merket · Aug 29th, 2026, 11:14pm CT
- OpenAI built a hidden task system for ChatGPT inside Excel and PowerPoint files
The unreleased desktop feature turns comments on cells, charts, slides and shapes into threaded assignments that ChatGPT can complete in batches.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Aug 28th, 2026, 1:59pm CT
- Kimi is building a PopClip-style AI toolbar for selected desktop text
Code in Kimi Work 3.2.3 detects highlighted text systemwide, but its search, translation and summary buttons are still unwired.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Aug 28th, 2026, 12:53am CT
- OpenAI is building "Subscription sharing" for AI apps
Code in the Codex desktop client reveals a dormant allowance system internally called ChatPass that could let applications consume separately metered portions of a user's subscription.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Aug 27th, 2026, 4:32pm CT
- OpenAI hid Asteroids, Snake and Brick Breaker inside the Codex Micro
OpenAI's $230 controller turns recent assistant messages into the asteroids, bricks and food inside three undocumented games.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Aug 27th, 2026, 1:16am CT
- OpenAI built ChatGPT interfaces that keep running after answers appear
Codex client code reveals a server-directed GenUI lane that can refresh specific widgets after delivery, separate from OpenAI's public Apps SDK for third-party MCP apps.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Aug 26th, 2026, 10:09pm CT
- OpenAI Is Testing “Luna Reserve,” a Codex Fallback Tier
The undocumented feature gives some Plus and Pro users a separate allowance after advanced-model access is constrained. RuntimeWire traced its model switching and metering logic inside OpenAI’s Windows client.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Aug 23rd, 2026, 11:23pm CT
- Anthropic’s Project Parka sits through meetings and assigns Claude agents the homework
Internally codenamed Parka, the Mac-first feature can capture system and microphone audio, stream speaker-attributed transcripts and create runnable work for Claude's agents.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Aug 19th, 2026, 3:00am CT