Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

The studio giant will no longer move forward with its OpenAI investment, as the AI company exits the video generation business.

The Hollywood Reporter

"Disney is also exiting the deal it signed with OpenAI last year, in which it pledged to invest $1 billion in the company and agreed to license some of its characters for use in Sora."

Realized that mickey mouse porn wasn't good for their image huh.

Oh, per -this- story, apparently openai fucked -themselves- by shuttering the service without notifying Disney about it?

lol, wow, that's a -huge- fuckup.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-set-discontinue-sora-video-platform-app-wsj-reports-2026-03-24/

That's gonna make all their other "partners" second-guess their relationship, if openai's so chaotic as to randomly shut down essential parts of such partnerships without warning.
@munin idk if their other partners' sense is overpowering their avarice yet. here's hoping

@cap_ybarra

I dare say it depends on whether their other partners are using openai, claude, or gemini to think for them.