The Walt Disney Company has struck a “landmark” three-year licensing agreement with OpenAI in which the studio will become the first major content partner for the Sora AI video generator. The deal will make more than 200 characters available from the Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars vaults. The companies announced that fan-inspired social videos are expected by early 2026, some of which will stream on Disney+. The Hollywood giant will also become an OpenAI customer, “using its APIs to build new products, tools, and experiences, including for Disney+, and deploying ChatGPT for its employees.” In addition, Disney is planning a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI. Continue reading Disney Strikes Licensing Deal with OpenAI, Invests $1 Billion

Adobe launched its popular creative and productivity apps Photoshop, Adobe Express and Acrobat for ChatGPT this week, enabling users to edit images, animate elements and modify PDFs by simply asking the chatbot. “Now hundreds of millions of people can edit with Photoshop simply by using their own words, right inside a platform that’s already part of their day-to-day,” said Adobe President of Digital Media David Wadhwani. Photoshop, Express and Acrobat for ChatGPT are currently free for ChatGPT users, available via desktop, web and iOS. Adobe Express for ChatGPT has Android support, which is coming soon for Acrobat and Photoshop. Continue reading Adobe Integrates Photoshop, Acrobat, Express with ChatGPT

FixBot is a new AI app from iFixit that can figure out what’s wrong with broken devices and guide you through the repair using hands-free instruction, visual analysis, and instant access to the world’s repair knowledge. Available from the App Store and Google Play, the FixBot is optimized for mobile. Free on launch, the company is developing an alternate Enthusiast tier that will cost $4.99 per month or $50 per year and include perks like voice and document upload. FixBot is iFixit’s second attempt at a repair app, following an attempt that ran from 2011 to 2015. Since it went dark, the company’s community kept asking for a more mobile-friendly redux. Continue reading iFixit’s AI-Powered FixBot Puts Expert Advice in Your Pocket

The non-profit Linux Foundation has formed the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) with the support of three leading tech firms supporting inaugural projects to advance innovation in open source AI: Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md. “The advent of agentic AI represents a new era of autonomous decision making and coordination across AI systems that will transform and revolutionize entire industries,” the Linux Foundation says, emphasizing the AAIF as “a neutral, open foundation to ensure this critical capability evolves transparently, collaboratively” that supports open source. Continue reading Anthropic, Block, OpenAI Back Linux’s Agentic AI Standards

Amazon and Microsoft are plowing billions of dollars of AI funding into India, with the e-retail giant pledging to spend $35 billion there by 2030, and Microsoft earmarking $17.5 billion over four years to develop the AI frontier and integrate the technology “at population scale.” The funds are expected to encourage AI-powered digitization, cloud growth, increased exports and new job creation — all national priorities for the South Asian territory. Amazon has already invested nearly $40 billion in India, which is emerging as a global AI and cloud hub. The new investment is Microsoft’s biggest yet in Asia and follows a $3 billion India commitment announced earlier this year. Continue reading India Attracts $52B in AI Investments from Amazon, Microsoft

Roughly 20 percent of U.S. teens surveyed say they were on TikTok and YouTube “almost constantly” in 2025, with YouTube distinguishing itself for use “by nearly all teens,” according to a new Pew Research study. Ninety percent of teens surveyed say they’ve used YouTube, followed by TikTok and Instagram, with at least 60 percent claiming usage, with Snapchat landing at about 55 percent. Chatbot use is at about 64 percent among respondents, with about 30 percent of teens saying they use companionable AI answer engines daily, led by OpenAI’s ChatGPT (59 percent). Continue reading Pew Research: 30 Percent of U.S. Teens Use Chatbots Daily

Google plans to debut its first AI-powered eyewear in 2026, challenging Meta Platforms in the consumer market for AI smart glasses. Google’s inaugural AI glasses will come in two styles. The audio-only model features built-in speakers, microphones and cameras “to let you chat naturally with Gemini, take photos and get help.” Another style features an in-lens display and can show things like navigation. As previously announced, Google is working with partners Samsung, Xreal, Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to create “stylish, lightweight” smart glasses that can be comfortably worn all day. Continue reading Google to Launch Xreal Project Aura Smart Glasses Next Year

Nielsen Marketing Cloud’s Audience Segments targeting tool is now available across the Amazon Ads marketplace, allowing advertisers to deliver ads across multiple platforms and in different formats while measuring performance throughout the vast Amazon ecosystem. NMC’s Audience Segments data sets provide more than 20,000 custom and syndicated segments in categories ranging from auto, finance and CPG — now targetable to audiences on Amazon platforms including Prime Video, Twitch, Fire TV, Freevee and Amazon.com. The segments are available through the Amazon DSP and Amazon Marketing Cloud data clean room. Continue reading Nielsen Audience Segments Is Available Across Amazon Ads

Meta Platforms is bringing breaking news and a broader range of real-time entertainment and lifestyle content to its social platforms, apps and devices via the Meta AI chatbot. The company has partnered with news outlets including CNN, Fox News, People Inc. and USA Today to power the expanded global content offerings. “When you ask Meta AI news-related questions, you’ll now receive information and links that draw from more diverse content sources to help you discover timely and relevant content tailored to your interests,” Meta explains, noting that the integrations will link to the original sourcing. Continue reading Meta AI Chatbot Gets Real-Time Intelligence with News Deals

Meta Platforms has acquired AI wearables firm Limitless, a five-year-old startup based in Denver. Limitless’ key product is an AI-powered pendant that records audio and generates summaries. “We’re excited that Limitless will be joining Meta to help accelerate our work to build AI-enabled wearables,” Meta said via a statement. Meta has had success in the wearables space with its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which feature a Meta AI digital assistant. Meta’s further push into AI devices that consumers can use casually in everyday situations comes as the company reportedly considers downsizing its metaverse investments. Continue reading Meta Platforms Acquires Limitless, a Startup in AI Wearables

Anthropic continues to close major deals as it reportedly moves toward an IPO, possibly coming as soon as Q1 (although Sasha de Marigny, the company’s chief communications officer, said there are no immediate plans to go public). The Amazon-funded AI startup’s latest contract provides its Claude models to cloud software firm Snowflake in a $200 million multiyear deal. Snowflake’s AI agents will use Claude to help businesses handle complex data analysis. As for the IPO, Financial Times reports Anthropic is working with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati — a law firm whose CV includes IPOs for Google, LinkedIn and Lyft — and may be in a race with OpenAI to see who can be first to offer its shares publicly. Continue reading Anthropic Secures $200M Snowflake Deal as IPO Talk Builds

Anthropic has released a new tool called Interviewer available through Claude.ai to collect data on customer usage and preferences. Among the early findings are that “the general workforce wants to delegate routine work to AI but preserve the tasks central to their professional identity.” Anthropic plans to expand the scope of inquiry “through partnerships with creatives, scientists, and teachers” and says it will share the results. The company admits it wants feedback to develop better products, but “also because understanding people’s interactions with AI is one of the great sociological questions of our time.” Continue reading Anthropic Interviewer Explores Claude Users’ Views About AI

Meta Platforms is combining Facebook and Instagram support into a single hub and using AI to improve outcomes for customers seeking help. “In the past year, new account hacks decreased by more than 30 percent globally on Facebook and Instagram and recovering an account is now faster and simpler with the help of AI,” Meta said announcing the change. Users can now report account issues, find answers by querying Meta AI-powered search, and more. The update is coming to iOS and Android for both platforms. Meta is also testing an AI support assistant for Facebook that offers “instant, personalized help.” Continue reading Meta Combines Facebook, Instagram Support into Single Hub

Amazon’s Trainium3 accelerator chip — the company’s first AI silicon built on 3nm technology — is now in general release. It comes to market with the Trainium3 UltraServer, a high-density integrated system purpose-built for large-scale GenAI model training. Trn3 UltraServers can scale to 144 Trainium3 chips, delivering up to 362 FP8 PFLOPs. The Trn3 chips are viewed as challengers to Nvidia’s AI GPUs and Google’s Tensor TPUs. But Amazon also announced it will provide enterprises with turnkey AWS AI Factories that utilize key Nvidia components and support its AI chips, allowing customers to choose or combine brands. Continue reading Amazon Rolls Out New AI Chips, UltraServers and AI Factories

AI agents that can work for days on end without human direction and new Nova 2 models were the big announcements on day two of AWS re:Invent, where Amazon also introduced Nova Forge, a service that lets companies build their own models. The autonomous agents include Kiro for software development, the AWS Security Agent to protect against cyber threats and the AWS DevOps Agent, which monitors and improves the performance of applications across AWS, multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Amazon explains they are part of a new class of “frontier agents” that are autonomous, can operate for hours or days without requiring intervention, and are scalable. Continue reading AWS Frontier Agents Can Work for Days Without Human Help