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World Service,11 Dec 2025,26 mins

Disney & OpenAI deal: Threat or opportunity?

World Business Report

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Disney is investing $1bn in OpenAI, letting fans create AI-generated videos with its characters. But what will the deal mean for the future of entertainment? We hear from people across the creative industry. Tickets for next year’s World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico have gone on sale but fans say the prices are “extortionate.” In Kenya, a court has frozen a multibillion-dollar US health deal over data-privacy concerns. And Mexico is hitting China with a wave of new tariffs. (Picture: A Walt Disney World entrance sign in Orlando, Florida, USA. Credit: REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez)

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