Disney’s three-year licensing partnership with OpenAI includes just one of exclusivity, Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC. The company signed the partnership with OpenAI last week that will bring its ...

On Thursday, Disney announced a landmark partnership with OpenAI to license its iconic characters and properties to be used to generate clips on Sora, OpenAI’s video generating app, starting in 2026.

Disney invested $1 billion in OpenAI for a 3-year license, enabling user-generated character videos to monetize IP and engage younger audiences. This deal highlights Disney's dual AI strategy: ...

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What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...

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Google is ‘flooding the market with infringing works,’ Disney claims. Google is ‘flooding the market with infringing works,’ Disney claims. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer ...

Disney has come to an agreement with OpenAI Ranch to license its famous characters for the Sora video program. The two companies made the announcement on Thursday, saying it is a 3-year license that ...

It's "A Whole New World." The Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday that it had reached a three-year agreement with OpenAI to bring its popular characters to the company's Sora artificial intelligence ...

Remember earlier this year when a bunch of Disney characters and civil rights activists were being puppeteered on social media by generative AI prompts? Disney sent a cease-and-desist to Character.ai, ...

Disney is hedging against the future. OpenAI is clearing a path for Sora. And together they’ve made a blueprint for how AI and Hollywood can move forward. Disney has always been a notoriously ...

The Wild West of copyrighted characters in AI may be coming to an end. There has been legal wrangling over the role of copyright in the AI era, but the mother of all legal teams may now be gearing up ...