Five layers, one hole at the second. What exists at each layer of a newsroom run by machines, what it costs, where it breaks. 1. Collect. ScrapeGraphAI reads a web page and hands back structured data. No RSS feeds, no X.. Hosted from $20 a month. 2. Verify. Nothing off the shelf: Feynman checks citations, not whether a news fact is true.. Remains to be written. 3. Summarise and translate. Kimi K3 swallows 1,048,576 tokens at once, but its smallest build weighs 466 GB.. A host, a subscription. 4. Turn into video. OpenMontage chains script, voice, music, editing, and cuts ranked short clips.. $1.33 to $5 per video. 5. Coordinate. CrewAI, LangGraph and Temporal, all MIT. Machine, queue and retries are on you.. Open source, self-hosted.
