Good data access is the biggest difference between AI leaders (61%) and what are politely called “learners” (11%) in this IBM study.  Other factors typically considered important turn out to be more similar: use of custom AI vs. out-of-box scenarios (72% vs 33%), following a roadmap (85% vs 72%) and even revenue growth attributable to AI (67% vs 51%). Lots of good info here.

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.