Investigations — Page 4
Original reporting, documents and technical research
- Exclusive: PFF soccer spinout Gradient Sports raises $10.4M
The Cincinnati-based sports data firm, spun out of Pro Football Focus's global soccer business, closed its equity offering to five investors weeks after PFF's enterprise arm sold for over $100M.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Exclusive · By Ryan Merket · Jul 20th, 2026, 5:21pm CT
- Exclusive: Grok Build hides a Doom-like 'easter egg' game behind the /gboom command
RuntimeWire testing found an undocumented mini-game inside xAI's terminal coding agent
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Exclusive · By Ryan Merket · Jul 10th, 2026, 6:18pm CT
- Fleet AI's Big Bet: Before Agents Run the Office, Send Them to the Gym
Insider round led by Sequoia, Bain, Menlo, and SVA; RR climbed from $1M six months ago to $63M now and is tracking $160M next quarter as Ouporov also previews a benchmark exposing spatial failures in frontier models.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Exclusive · By Ryan Merket · Jun 1st, 2026, 12:11am CT
- Exclusive: RoboRank, the 'LeetCode for roboticists,' will open evaluation environments and run a public scoreboard
RoboRank, a LeetCode-like benchmarking project for robotics at roborank.dev, will separate and open-source its evaluation environments, target VLAs and world models, and harden sandboxed code execution so researchers can contribute tasks and models in the open.
RUNTIMEWIRE INVESTIGATION — Exclusive · By Ryan Merket · May 25th, 2026, 10:40pm CT