Disney wants you to AI-generate yourself into your favorite Marvel movie The media company is investing $1bn in OpenAI – and allowing its characters to be used in generated videos
Disappointing Oracle results knock $80bn off value amid AI bubble fears Weaker-than-forecast quarterly data for Larry Ellison’s tech company shows slowdown in revenue growth and big rise in spending Business live – latest updates
Disney to invest $1bn in OpenAI, allowing characters in Sora video tool Agreement comes amid anxiety in Hollywood over impact of AI on the industry, expression and rights of creators
Nick Clegg takes role at London-based venture capitalists Hiro Capital Former deputy prime minister, who left Meta this year, to be joined by Facebook-owner’s chief AI scientist
‘What to buy Dad for Christmas’: is retail ready for the AI shopping shift? As shoppers ask ChatGPT for inspiration, brands scramble to ensure their products appeal to the bots calling the shots
Travel firm Tui says it is using AI to create ‘inspirational’ videos Boss says German firm also investing in generative engine optimisation to help push it to top of chatbot responses
Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘preparing for flotation that could value it at over $1tn’ Reports say space exploration company has begun talks about stock market listing that could raise more than $25bn
Trump clears way for Nvidia to sell powerful AI chips to China Commerce department finalising deal to allow H200 chips to be sold to China as strict Biden-era restrictions relaxed
Moonpig’s use of AI to design and personalise cards drives up sales About half of purchases involve shoppers using online retailer’s artificial intelligence-led features
EU opens investigation into Google’s use of online content for AI models European Commission to assess whether Gemini owner is putting rival companies at a disadvantage
Cloudflare apologises after latest outage takes down LinkedIn and Zoom Web infrastructure provider says problem lasted half an hour and was not an attack, weeks after larger outage
Musicians must embrace ‘unstoppable force’ of AI, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart urges Producer says creatives need to own their intellectual property so they can license it to generative AI platforms
Trump’s billionaire backers dress influence as generosity Michael Dell’s $6.25bn gift spotlights how the super-rich use ‘charity’ to win access, favour and influence
Elon Musk’s X fined €120m by EU in first clash under new digital laws Ruling could put European Commission on collision course with billionaire, and possibly Donald Trump
Explaining UK debt with biscuits: Labour MPs get the hang of viral content Gordon McKee, whose explainer has racked up 3m views, leads way as party tries to harness power of social media