Why Disney Struck a Deal with OpenAI - DTNS Weekend
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Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Andy Beach from Engines of Change explains what the deal means and how it might set a precedent for the future.
Starring Tom Merritt and Andy Beach.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the DTNS Weekend Edition, where we try to dig a little deeper into one of the topics kicking around these days. |
| 0:11.5 | And as we reported on Thursday, Disney has sunk a billion dollar investment into Open AI and come to an agreement with open AI to license their |
| 0:25.2 | technology for use with Disney environments to use to have Disney employees use it and likewise |
| 0:34.4 | license some of Disney's intellectual property to open AI for use on their |
| 0:40.9 | models. |
| 0:41.9 | There are a lot of questions. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm sure you have, even if you've heard this story. |
| 0:45.6 | So we thought we would investigate it a little more. |
| 0:48.5 | And who better to do it than the author of Agents of Change, Engines of Change? |
| 0:54.1 | Engines of Change. I got agents engines of change, engines of change. |
| 0:55.8 | I got agents on the mind, Andy. |
| 0:57.8 | I understand. |
| 1:00.1 | Engines of change. |
| 1:01.1 | Andy Beach, welcome back. |
| 1:02.7 | Good to have you, man. |
| 1:03.6 | Hey, Tom. |
| 1:04.4 | I love that we are, we have a Christmas gift from Disney, which is lots of content to talk about right here at the end of the year. |
| 1:12.6 | Normally, it's quiet. |
| 1:14.4 | It's funny. |
| 1:14.9 | When I was talking to Justin Robert Young about stuff, you know, the Netflix Warner Brothers merger and all of that, he was like, yeah, you know, in the politics world, you know, everybody's just shutting down, phoning it in. |
| 1:27.2 | And I'm like, yeah, it must be nice. |
| 1:29.9 | Not this year. |
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