The worst Disney villains, like Pocahontas' Governor Ratcliffe and Zootopia's Bellwether, are poorly constructed, futile, and ...

A cease-and-desist for Google’s Gemini followed the $1 billion+ OpenAI Sora and Disney partnership AI came for the authors (including Game of Thrones’ George R.R. Martin)… and Hollywood kind of ...

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.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Thursday morning, Disney made two ...

Disney has announced a deal that will see the House of Mouse invest $1 billion in OpenAI, as well as allow many of its characters to be used in ChatGPT and video tool Sora. This is the first such ...

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 ...

Lukas I. Alpert writes about the media and entertainment industries for MarketWatch. He previously worked for the Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, New York Post and the Associated Press. In ...

It's been confirmed today that Disney and OpenAI are set to partner on a three-year licensing agreement. The deal will allow Sora to generate short, user-prompted social videos that can be viewed and ...

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. A new three-year licensing agreement ...

Disney characters are coming to OpenAI’s Sora video generation app — this time, with permission. OpenAI and Disney just announced a “landmark agreement” that will see some Sora content appear on ...

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, ...