Disney is experiencing the highs and lows the box office has to offer. On one hand, the studio’s animated sequel “Zootopia 2” returned to No. 1 in North America in its third weekend after sprinting past the $1 billion mark.

The inevitable part is that Disney CEO Bob Iger hinted several weeks ago something like this was coming, and most smart money had it involving OpenAI; the kind of social virality Iger suggested fit squarely with what OpenAI has been good at with the likes of Sora and ChatGPT.

As Disney inks a $1 billion deal with OpenAI to license its characters for AI videos, the entertainment giant is also going after Google. Disney sent Google a cease-and-desist letter Wednesday, alleging that Google AI models are infringing on its copyright protections on a "massive scale."