Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI and License Its Characters for AI Videos

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus, Eli Lilly reports dramatic weight loss in a clinical trial of a next-generation obesity drug. And the U.S. trade deficit fell to a five-year low in September. Pierre Bienaimé hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Being evil queen has never been so fun.
0:03.0	And I am willing to do anything.
0:05.9	We will soon be at war.
0:07.7	You will have to take a side.
0:09.0	War with the Protestants.
0:10.3	What fun.
0:11.5	Or war with the Catholics.
0:12.9	None of us are safe.
0:14.4	Feels good to be bad.
0:16.0	The Serpent Queen on Channel 4.
0:18.5	Stream now.
0:24.4	Here. Queen on Channel 4. Stream now. Here's your midday brief for Thursday, December 11th.
0:27.8	I'm Pierre Biennamee for the Wall Street Journal.
0:30.3	Disney is investing $1 billion in Open AI and will allow the AI platform to use its characters
0:36.3	and properties for short social videos that users can make.
0:39.9	Under the three-year licensing deal, users can make videos with OpenAI's video platform, SORA,
0:44.7	of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar characters.
0:48.8	Some of those short videos will be available to stream on Disney Plus.
0:52.2	A person with knowledge of the matter says OpenAI will pay Disney
0:55.1	to use characters including Darth Vader in SORA. The companies didn't disclose financial terms of that
1:00.7	arrangement. News Corp, owner of the Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI.
1:07.4	Eli Lilly is reporting dramatic weight loss in a phase three trial of its next generation obesity drug read a true tide.
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