Media & Entertainment Business

Disney will invest $1 billion in OpenAI under a three‑year commercial licensing agreement that makes Disney a "major customer" and lets OpenAI’s Sora users create and share AI videos using more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars beginning in 2026. The deal explicitly excludes talent likenesses and voices and has drawn criticism from advocacy group Fairplay as targeting children, even though OpenAI says children are prohibited from using Sora.