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OpenAI is discontinuing Sora, its app that allows users to generate artificial intelligence videos with text prompts. The app and a major update to Sora were announced just last fall, followed shortly ...

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.

Some back-of-napkin math suggests OpenAI is spending more than a quarter of what it’s making to power its AI slop factory. For a company that’s burning more than twice what it’s earning, OpenAI is ...