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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 03/25/2026 16:02 EDT

Disney’s big bets on the metaverse and AI slop aren’t going so well

Less than a week into his tenure as Disney's newly-appointed CEO, Josh D'Amaro is already dealing with two separate crises that have cast a shadow over the company's future plans. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora image-generation program just months after Disney announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration to bake the tech into Disney Plus. […]

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