5/ Three months later, OpenAI killed Sora. Disney reportedly found out less than an hour before the announcement. No agreement was ever signed. No money changed hands.
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Disney licenses characters to OpenAI for Sora video generation
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4/ Then in December, Disney agreed to a deal worth around $1 billion. Mickey Mouse, Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, all licensed for people to drop into Sora videos. An OpenAI exec called it a shift on the level of the end of silent film.
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OpenAI’s Sora: from media success to failure in six months
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OpenAI created the most media-covered AI video application on Earth. It cost them millions per day to run. But it only earned them $2.1 million over its entire lifespan. Here is how Sora went from number one to dead in six months:
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New benchmark MPMWorlds tests AI understanding of physics in videos
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AI can now watch a video and write the physics code behind it.
— AlphaSignal (@AlphaSignalAI) 16 juin 2026
Video models are often called world simulators.
A new paper tests whether they actually understand physics.
MPMWorlds is a benchmark of 95,000 rendered 2D simulations.
It covers liquids, snow, sand, and… pic.twitter.com/b95y3sdWIAAI can now watch a video and write the physics code behind it. models are often called world simulators. A new paper tests whether they actually understand physics. MPMWorlds is a benchmark of 95,000 rendered 2D simulations. It covers liquids, snow, sand, and
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Stellar performance of a 3B model through post-training refinements
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Stellar performance from a 3B model. These results were achieved primarily through post-training refinements on Qwen2.5-Coder. The paper doesn't provide many details, but it appears they distill from RL ckpts and then do a final RL-based instruct RL. https://
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PhysicsWallah’s Ask AI reveals 52% students prefer audio learning
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PhysicsWallah prepares over 36 millions of students across India for competitive exams, and government entrance exams.
— ElevenLabs (@ElevenLabs) 16 juin 2026
Their AI doubt-solving tool, Ask AI, found that 52% of students learn better through audio. A text-only tool was leaving half their users behind.
They… pic.twitter.com/cxjpTGQvNWPhysicsWallah prepares over 36 millions of students across India for competitive exams, and government entrance exams. Their AI doubt-solving tool, Ask AI, found that 52% of students learn better through audio. A text-only tool was leaving half their users behind. They
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Voice control agent builds concept, cast, storyboards, and shots
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Use voice control (very beta), or simply type to have the agent build everything from concept, to cast, to storyboards and generations.
— Pika (@pika_labs) 15 juin 2026
Shots are generated directly from approved boards, and automatically placed in both your timeline and your asset library.
Editing happens via… pic.twitter.com/1JtzZJKLklUse voice control (very beta), or simply type to have the agent build everything from concept, to cast, to storyboards and generations. Shots are generated directly from approved boards, and automatically placed in both your timeline and your asset library. Editing happens via
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Gemini Omni turns reference image into video with real physics, voice edits
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Gemini Omni turns one reference image into finished video. Any input, text, a photo, audio, into a clean 10-second clip. Two things make it work for product ads. The physics are real, so metal and glass stop looking floaty. And you edit by talking to it, one change at a time,
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Cartesia: a pair of number one models for conversation
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Cartesia did not just release two models, it released the only pair from one company ranked #1 on both ends of a conversation.
— AI Highlight (@AIHighlight) 15 juin 2026
Sonic-3.5 turns text into speech and Ink-2 turns speech into text, faster than anything else streaming.
That is the whole voice loop locked down by… https://t.co/OA6mvEx06nCartesia did not simply release two models; it released the only pair from the same company ranked number one at both ends of a conversation. Sonic-3.5 converts text to speech and Ink-2 converts speech to text, faster than anything else.
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Runway inside ChatGPT for video and image editing
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Use Runway inside ChatGPT to generate and edit video and images. No tab-switching required. pic.twitter.com/bQ3kRkpd4s
— Runway (@runwayml) 15 juin 2026Use Runway inside ChatGPT to generate and edit video and images. No tab-switching required.