Companies pulling back from diversity commitments out of fear of right-wing boycotts may be in for a rude awakening: a new poll shows that 45% of Democrats have stopped shopping at their favorite stores because of politics, compared with just 34% of Republicans. Looks like Target isn’t the only target of left-wing consumer discontent.

Salesforce and Google have expanded their strategic partnership to permit the use of Google Gemini generative AI models in the Salesforce Agentforce eco-system. This will not only allow AI agents to work with images, audio, and video but also give access to insights from Google Search. There will also be enhanced integration between Salesforce Service Cloud and Google Customer Engagement Suite.

Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.