Get Animated! and Animation Courtyard closed last summer. They will reopen this summer, with the courtyard reimagined into the Walt Disney Studios lot. Replacing the old dance party will be the new ...

Crew members removed the Lightning Lane and stand-by wait time signs from the Disney Jr. show entrance at Disney’s Hollywood Studios on the morning of January 6. The show closed last summer and a new ...

NYE parties, the Cavaliers return to Rocket Arena, Frost continues at the Cleveland Botanical Garden and more.

The beginning of 2026 brought new copyrighted items entering the public domain, including multiple iconic Disney cartoons and ...

OpenAI said the agreement with Walt Disney was part of a push to ensure the rights of creators in the generative AI space - amid growing concerns over copyright, deepfakes and misinformation. Disney ...

Disney has signed a deal with OpenAI to let the firm's video generation tool produce short videos featuring more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters. The Walt Disney Company has ...

As part of the Walt Disney Company's $1 billion investment in ChatGPT parent OpenAI, the entertainment giant will let you use Mickey Mouse and other Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars characters in ...

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The Walt Disney Company has announced a sweeping partnership with OpenAI that will see it take a $1bn (€852mn) stake in the tech giant. The deal will notably allow cult Disney characters to appear in ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI and licenses more than 200 characters — including Mickey Mouse and Moana — to ...

Walt Disney Co. is licensing iconic characters including Mickey Mouse and Cinderella to OpenAI for use on its artificial intelligence video platform and has agreed to take a $1 billion stake in the ...

The deal is a watershed for Hollywood, which has been trying to sort through the possible harms and upsides of generative artificial intelligence. By Brooks Barnes and Cade Metz In a watershed moment ...