I guess every smartphone owner knows how easy it is to create a video. But you might still be surprised that more than half the small business marketers surveyed by video creation platform Promo publish one or more videos per week. Don’t be too impressed: 64% are under 20 seconds long and 49% are made in less than ten minutes.

Fraud prevention vendor Kount comes at identity from the angle of judging whether someone is really who they say they are. Kount just introduced the Identity Trust Global Network, which assigns a confidence score to identities asserted during interactions such as payments, account creation, and log-ins. Companies can then act accordingly, smoothing the path for reliable identities and demanding more verification from the sketchier ones.

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.