Overview

• Ultra‑realistic Sora2 videos depicting deceased celebrities drew public rebukes from families, with Zelda Williams condemning AI clips of her father and the MPAA chief citing a surge in allegedly infringing content.
• OpenAI stated that authorized representatives of recently deceased public figures can ask to block their likeness from Sora cameos and said broader rights‑holder controls are coming.
• Financial Times reporting says OpenAI is pushing new revenue streams including customized government and enterprise deals, shopping tools with checkout commissions, commercialization of Sora and AI agents, possible advertising, and hardware with Jony Ive.
• OpenAI is exploring debt financing and its Stargate data‑center plan as sources say it has committed to more than 26 GW of compute capacity from Oracle, Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom, with decade‑long costs projected to exceed $1 trillion.
• A restructuring under discussion could leave Microsoft near a 30% stake alongside sizable employee and nonprofit holdings, while xAI aims to release an AI‑generated game next year and Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark warned about emerging situational awareness in advanced models.