$1B Disney deal canceled
Disney signed a $1B, 3-year deal with OpenAI in December 2025 to use Sora with 200+ licensed characters, then canceled it 90 days later when OpenAI shut Sora down.
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Elon's TerraFab Is 50x TSMC | OpenAI Burned $15M a Day on Sora, Then Killed It | ElevenLabs Undercut 4x Overnight | Anthropic's Mythos Leaks | GitLab Founder Treats His Own Cancer With AI | EP06
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Mar 30, 2026
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AI Content Is Going Parabolic (Elon's Chart)
At 5:57 · chapter starts 1:30
AI Content Is Going Parabolic — And Nobody Is Reading It
AI-generated text has already surpassed all human-written content ever produced and the curve is near vertical. The uncomfortable reality: most of it is probably just AIs producing content for other AIs to consume, with no human audience at the other end.
OpenAI Spent $15M a Day on Sora — Then Killed It
OpenAI was burning $15 million every single day on Sora — around $5.5 billion a year — for a social video app generating no revenue. When they pulled the plug, Disney's $1 billion licensing deal for Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters evaporated with it.
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