OpenAI nabs $1B investment from Disney
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In interviews with Ars Technica this week, OpenAI employees revealed the extent to which the company now relies on its own AI coding agent, Codex, to build and improve the development tool. “I think the vast majority of Codex is built by Codex,
The three-year licensing agreement grants OpenAI's Sora video generator unprecedented access to more than 200 characters from Disney's vast catalog.
Launched amid fierce competition from Google's new agent, this update aims to make AI more useful, reliable, and impactful for everyday users, developers, and enterprises alike.
GPT-5.2 is here, and with it, OpenAI wants “to unlock even more economic value for people,” Fidji Simo, the company’s CEO of Applications, told reporters in a Thursday briefing. She said it’s been in the works for “many, many months.”
OpenAI has released GPT-5.2, claiming significant gains in the AI model’s ability to complete real-world business tasks to an “expert level” compared to GPT-5.1, released in November. The new model, available in Instant, Thinking, and Pro performance tiers, offers major improvements across a range of benchmarks, the company said.
"I think the reason this bidding is approaching $100 billion-plus is the content library and the potential to do a Disney-OpenAI type of deal."
SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI is diving into California’s competitive world of ballot measure politics for the first time to counter another kids’ AI safety proposal with its own plan for reining in the very technology it develops.
After a string of disturbing mental health incidents involving AI chatbots, a group of state attorneys general sent a letter to the AI industry’s top companies, with a warning to fix “delusional outputs” or risk being in breach of state law.