RuntimeWire Beat Reporters by 3 Hours on OpenAI Hack Scoop for About $100 a Day
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Updated · WIRED · Aug 12
RuntimeWire Beat Reporters by 3 Hours on OpenAI Hack Scoop for About $100 a Day
1 articles · Updated · WIRED · Aug 12
Summary
RuntimeWire published its OpenAI hacking story more than three hours before WIRED after founder Ryan Merket fed a live Black Hat transcript to AI agents during the talk.
Six minutes was enough for the system to draft and publish the piece, part of a largely automated workflow that can also find stories, fact-check, translate, generate images and promote them.
Nearly 2,000 stories have run since May, Merket said, with the Austin-based operation costing about $100 a day and sometimes publishing without his prepublication review if agents flag low legal risk.
This week Merket split RuntimeWire into fully automated news and higher-oversight “Original Investigations,” as he argues the site follows journalistic standards despite issuing three corrections so far.
Researchers and media observers say such agentic newsrooms may suit aggregation and live-event coverage, but remain doubtful AI can reliably handle sourcing, legal judgment and audience trust.