Saameer Go

Inside the $1 Billion Disney OpenAI Sora Deal: How Sora Will Stream on Disney+ in 2026

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In late 2025, OpenAI quietly crossed a line it had spent years avoiding. It stopped behaving like a research lab — and started acting like a media platform. Industry briefings and supply-chain reporting now point to a landmark partnership between OpenAI and Disney, widely described as a $1 billion strategic deal tied to Sora, OpenAI’s … Read more

OpenAI’s 2026 Pivot: Why Ads in ChatGPT and Jony Ive’s “Gumdrop” AI Pen Signal a New Google Era

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For most of the last two years, OpenAI presented itself as the company that would replace Google’s old economic model of the internet. No ads. No ranking incentives. Just intelligence. That promise is now quietly collapsing. Behind headlines about safety hiring and next-generation models, OpenAI is executing a forced pivot for 2026 built around two … Read more