OpenAI

• TBPN makes millions by covering Silicon Valley like ‘SportsCenter’. OpenAI just scooped it up.
• Does OpenAI’s Sora shutdown show us that the internet has had its fill of AI slop?

  Two years after it was first revealed, Sora is being shuttered. What does OpenAI's move tell us about the generative AI landscape?

  
• Elon Musk is suing his biggest AI rival over its “ill-gotten gains”

  A California district judge has given Elon Musk clearance to move forward with his lawsuit against OpenAI, the company he co-founded in 2015 alongside current CEO Sam Altman.

  
• Disney signs $1 billion licensing deal with OpenAI, is big mad at Google

  "Google has deeply embedded its infringing video and image AI Services into its broad family of products and services actively used by over a billion people," Disney said in a cease-and-desist. "This multiplies the scope of Google’s infringement, and harm to Disney’s intellectual property, not to mention the ill-gotten benefits Google enjoys from its unauthorized exploitation of Disney’s copyrighted works."

  
• Sora soars to the top of app charts with its AI slop TikTok copycat
• Was Sora trained on Marques Brownlee’s videos?
• YouTube is investigating whether OpenAI used creators’ videos to train Sora. It also thinks its own AI products can do better.
• Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is now leading OpenAI