OpenAI shuts down its Sora AI video app after just five months, triggering Disney to pull a $1 billion licensing deal as the entertainment giant's AI strategy hangs in uncertainty under new CEO Josh D'Amaro.
Meta's Oversight Board warns that Community Notes cannot replace professional fact-checkers, citing severe human rights risks in repressive regimes and conflict zones, structural flaws favoring dominant groups, and a stark efficiency gap — just 900 notes published in six months versus 35 million fact-checker labels in the EU.
AI photo 'restoration' tools are fabricating history by inventing details that never existed, and experts warn that no workflow refinement can justify altering the visual identity of real people — true conservation means preserving what exists, not generating fiction.
CapCut rolls out Dreamina Seedance 2.0 to paid users across seven markets, delivering AI-powered video generation with realistic motion, physics, and audio syncing for clips up to 15 seconds, backed by strict safety measures including real-face restrictions, invisible watermarking, and C2PA Content Credentials.
OpenAI shuts down its AI video tool Sora as Disney pulls a planned $1 billion investment and ends its licensing partnership, a major blow amid escalating Hollywood copyright battles targeting AI video platforms including Midjourney, Minimax, and ByteDance's Seedance 2.0.
Disney cancels its $1 billion OpenAI licensing deal after Sora's shutdown, though no money ever changed hands, and both companies are still exploring alternative partnership opportunities even as Hollywood's AI concerns shift toward rival platforms like SeeDance 2.0.
OpenAI shuts down its Sora video app and ends its $1 billion Disney deal, as Elon Musk's xAI races to capture the AI video market with Grok Imagine — but faces lawsuits, EU probes, and fierce competition from Google, Runway, and ByteDance.
OpenAI surpasses $120 billion in total funding, blowing past its $100 billion target with backers like Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz, as the AI giant eyes a potential IPO and makes tough cuts — including shutting down its Sora video app — to prioritize profitability.
OpenAI shuts down its Sora AI video app just months after launch as Disney pulls a $1 billion investment deal, handing Google a major advantage in the rapidly evolving AI video generation market.
Microsoft launches MAI-Image-2, a powerful next-generation text-to-image AI model debuting at third place on the Arena.ai leaderboard, offering hyper-detailed photorealism, legible text generation, and accurate skin tones, now available in preview on the MAI Playground with Copilot and Bing Image Creator rollout underway.