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T Engineering 14 Sep 2026 · 6 min read The Spend Page Read High, and No Money Moved Start with the part that is easiest to lose while reading the rest: no money was taken. No wallet was debited twice, no card was charged, no subscription allowance was spent on work that did not happen. What broke was a… A Product 12 Sep 2026 · 2 min read A Shared Run Shows Its Product, Not Its Parts You make a story video for a child, you send the link to their grandmother, and she opens a page that lists an audio player, then a picture, then the video, then three blocks of text — one of which begins "a brave little… E Engineering 12 Sep 2026 · 4 min read Every Reference the Model Takes, Over the Wire A video model will take more than a prompt. Some take a first frame and a last frame. Some take a handful of reference images. Some take a reference clip, and then behave differently because of it — muting their own soun… A Product 11 Sep 2026 · 3 min read A Voice Call That Doesn't Wait Its Turn Voice mode in ToRun has been a walkie-talkie. You speak, it listens; it speaks, your microphone is closed. That is not how people talk, and everyone notices within about thirty seconds — the moment you want to say "no, t… N Announcement 11 Sep 2026 · 3 min read New Models, and Some Honest Retirements We went through every provider's own documentation in a single sitting and reconciled the catalogue against it, line by line. Not an aggregator's list: aggregators put their own margin in the middle and have their own re… A Announcement 11 Sep 2026 · 3 min read A Tour Made of Real Outputs Most product tours are drawings of a product. This one is the product's output. torun.ai/tour is a deck. Every card on it points at something real: a conversation or a video or a song that was published as a share, a tem… F Product 11 Sep 2026 · 2 min read Four Pictures, Four Edits If you attached four pictures to a message, the assistant received four pictures and no idea which was which. "Change the second one" was a coin flip. "Do each one" was worse — it usually did one. Every attached image is… C Product 9 Sep 2026 · 3 min read Citations That Behave Like Citations A run of the multi-source research template produced a good report about investment instruments, and then printed it badly. Ninety-five markers of the form ^1 sat inline in the prose, and nine lines beginning ^1 : sat in… S Product 8 Sep 2026 · 3 min read Signed In With Google, Then Asked to Confirm Your E-mail Tap "Continue with Google", pick your account, and the next thing you should see is ToRun. What a lot of people saw instead was a page asking them to go and confirm their e-mail address — the same address Google had just…