The Byline Is a Bot, and It Just Scooped WIRED
At Black Hat, OpenAI dropped surprise details on a hacking incident, and while WIRED's reporters scrambled to write it up, a zero-human newsroom called RuntimeWire beat everyone by over three hours. Founder Ryan Merket fed a livestream transcript to his AI agents mid-talk and had a published story six minutes later. The whole operation, which crawls the web, drafts, fact-checks, and publishes almost autonomously, runs on about $100 a day and has already pumped out nearly 2,000 articles since May.
Journalism's new star reporter doesn't sleep, doesn't get bylines wrong, and definitely doesn't need a raise.