- 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 2, 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 29, 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 28, 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 28, 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 27, 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 27, 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 26, 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 23, 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 19, 2026, 3:00am CT
- Kimi Desktop Ships With a Group Chat Updater That Can Install Unverified Code
The Windows updater pulls a separate executable and agent instructions from mutable “latest” locations. The current binary is signed by Moonshot, but Kimi never verifies that signature before installation.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering, data analysis, documents · By Ryan Merket · Aug 18, 2026, 12:20pm CT
- Cursor built a hidden terminal command for steering its desktop AI agents
Cursor has built a working command-line bridge that lets outside scripts find and steer AI-agent conversations already running in its desktop app, RuntimeWire found in Cursor 3.16.17.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering, testing · By Ryan Merket · Aug 18, 2026, 11:00am CT
- At least 62 YC startups with over $1.9 billion in funding are hosting on Replit
Public DNS records link 160 custom-domain endpoints at 63 YC companies to Replit's infrastructure, showing how an AI coding platform is settling into production-facing work without replacing entire engineering stacks.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Original analysis · Based on data analysis, public records · By Ryan Merket · Aug 17, 2026, 11:37pm CT
- Kimi Desktop shipped Moonshot’s hidden employee gateway for off-quota Kimi, GPT and Codex access inside its public client
Version 3.1.10 identifies the office-only service as "KTH Gateway (Internal)," requires a personal bearer token, and routes off-quota Kimi, GPT, and Codex access through a shared upstream pool.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering, testing, data analysis · By Ryan Merket · Aug 17, 2026, 4:08pm CT
- Early XChat Meetings prototype previews X's push into workplace video
An unfinished interface spotted by an independent X feature tester previews shareable meeting links, attendee approvals, whiteboards and queued screen sharing.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on documents, public records · By Ryan Merket · Aug 17, 2026, 12:22am CT
- Kimi Work secretly attaches raw records from five recent agent sessions to feedback reports
Moonshot AI’s Windows desktop app packages bounded raw records from the five most recently updated Kimi Work conversations whenever a user submits feedback. The form does not identify those attachments or the conversations selected.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering, testing · By Ryan Merket · Aug 15, 2026, 12:51am CT
- OpenAI built a credit bonus into ChatGPT’s experimental desktop onboarding
A hidden flow asks newcomers to let ChatGPT complete a real desktop task, then can add a remotely configured bonus to their balance.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By RuntimeWire Staff · Aug 14, 2026, 9:12pm CT
- ChatGPT Wallet: OpenAI Is Building Agentic Payments
Code in the Windows ChatGPT/Codex desktop application bundle shows secure card entry and states for saving payment methods that ChatGPT can use to complete tasks.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering · By Ryan Merket · Aug 13, 2026, 10:01pm CT
- OpenAI starts rolling out giftable ChatGPT credits
The one-time claim links let users buy prepaid usage for someone else. OpenAI's Windows app already contains gated entry points for the purchase flow.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering, data analysis, public records · By Ryan Merket · Aug 12, 2026, 11:05pm CT
- Scoop: Grok Bot ships dormant shared rooms for tasking other users' agents
Windows code defines owner-approved invites, cross-account agent membership and scoped computer access, though the tested account remained gated.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Scoop · Based on reverse engineering, testing, public records · By RuntimeWire Staff · Aug 12, 2026, 6:15pm CT
- Scoop: SpaceXAI's Grok Bot stamps an account-derived ID into browser requests
The 16-character value is derived from the authenticated Cursor account and reaches external websites through Chrome's user-agent header.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Exclusive · Based on reverse engineering, data analysis, testing · By RuntimeWire Staff · Aug 12, 2026, 12:49pm CT
- Grok Bot's hidden "Elon-Only Settings" picker lists 33 models
The dormant desktop control pulls an account-scoped catalog spanning Grok, GPT, Claude, Gemini, Kimi and GLM.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Exclusive · Based on documents, testing, reverse engineering · By RuntimeWire Staff · Aug 11, 2026, 11:34pm CT