Articles by Rishikesh Ranjan (127)
Twitch AI Training Lawsuit: What the 2026 Case Tests
A proposed class action against Twitch and Amazon turns AI training-data consent into an operational test: when consent begins, whose choice controls chat, and whether a future-only opt-out can address content already used.
Pika Audio Models: How a Video AI Lab Is Undercutting ElevenLabs on Price
Pika shipped four standalone audio models, SFX, Speech, Soundtrack, and Music, priced far below ElevenLabs and Hunyuan Foley on paper. Here's what that does to the cost of voicing, scoring, and sound-designing an AI video, and to the vendors selling audio on its own.
LTX-2.5: The Open-Weights AI Video Model That Outpaces Veo and Kling
LTX-2.5 is a 22B-parameter open-weights video model that generates synchronized audio and video faster than Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 Pro, and Gemini Omni Flash, and runs on a 16GB consumer GPU. Here's what that means for AI video's build-versus-buy math.
Wan 3.0: Alibaba's AI Video Model Now Turns Slide Decks and Spreadsheets Into Video
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab announced a public beta for Wan 3.0 on August 6, 2026, gated to invited accounts - the first major AI video model that reads PowerPoint decks, PDFs, and spreadsheets directly. Here's what that changes in production workflows, and what it doesn't.
MiniMax H3 and the Rise of Native-Audio AI Video Generation
MiniMax H3 ships 2K AI video with native stereo audio in a single pass. Here's what that collapses in a video production pipeline, what still doesn't work, and why the model layer is racing toward audio-native generation.
Runway Media Router: Why AI Model Selection Just Became Infrastructure
Runway's new Media Router auto-picks the right video, image, or audio model for a job, the same idea OpenRouter brought to text models three and a half years ago. Here's why it's arriving now, and why Runway is willing to route paying customers to its own competitors to make it work.
Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3: One AI Model for Video, Audio, and Robots
Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3, its first multimodal frontier model unifying video, audio, and robotic action. Here's why the first production customer is a car factory, not a marketing team.
NVIDIA's Synthetic Video Detector: Real-Time Deepfake Detection Goes Live at 35,000-Deployment Scale
NVIDIA's Synthetic Video Detector, a NIM microservice announced at SIGGRAPH on July 20, 2026, is now embedded in Wowza's livestreaming infrastructure across 35,000+ deployments in 170+ countries. Here's what NVIDIA's own accuracy and latency numbers actually show.
How to Create an AppSumo Offer Explainer Video From a Deal Page
Create an accurate AppSumo video from a deal page by separating stable product facts from mutable offer facts, rendering in ngram, and running a line-by-line deal review.
How to Create an AppSumo Promo Video From a Deal Page
Create an AppSumo promo video from a live deal page with verified offer details, a focused teaser brief, render monitoring, and a final deal-term review.
How to Create a Product Hunt Demo Video for Your Launch Gallery
Create a Product Hunt video for the launch gallery with ngram's Product Explainer Video mode. Edit the brief into a compact walkthrough, render, and run QA.
How to Create a Product Hunt Launch Teaser From a Product Page
Create a focused Product Hunt video teaser from a product page with ngram's Product Teaser Video campaign mode, then review the brief, render, and final cut.