Good morning. It’s Thursday, December 11. Today we are covering:
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Big Tech warned over AI ‘delusional’ outputs by US attorneys general
AI Hackers Are Coming Dangerously Close to Beating Humans
Android users can now share a live video on 911 calls
Should robots take our jobs?
Let’s dive in
OpenAI
Disney and OpenAI struck a three-year licensing deal making Disney the first major content partner on Sora, letting fans generate short, user-prompted videos and ChatGPT Images using 200+ characters and worlds from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars, with curated selections to stream on Disney+ starting in early 2026.
As part of the partnership, Disney becomes a major OpenAI customer, using its APIs to build new products and experiences (including for Disney+) and rolling out ChatGPT to employees, while also making a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI plus receiving warrants for additional equity.
Both companies emphasize a “responsible AI” framework, committing to strong trust and safety controls, age-appropriate policies, protections for creators’ rights and IP, and safeguards around the use of individuals’ voice and likeness in AI-generated content.
𝕏: Behold! Three year agreement. ‘Alongside the licensing agreement, Disney will become a major customer of OpenAI, using its APIs to build new products, tools, and experiences, including for Disney+, and deploying ChatGPT for its employees.’ - Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_)
Big Tech warned over AI ‘delusional’ outputs by US attorneys general
By Courtney Rozen via Reuters
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general warned Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple that their AI chatbots’ “delusional outputs” may violate state laws by encouraging users’ delusions and posing mental health risks, including in a case involving a teen discussing a suicide plan with a bot.
The officials urged the companies to permit independent audits of their AI products and called for state and federal regulators to have full review access to ensure safety and compliance.
The warning comes amid a broader power struggle over AI regulation, as the Trump administration seeks to block states from passing their own AI laws, a move that dozens of attorneys general from both parties are actively opposing.
𝕏: Attorney General Sunday is leading a coalition of 42 Attorneys General in sending a letter to OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other major AI distribution companies demanding more quality control and other safeguards over chatbot products - PA Attorney General Dave Sunday (@PAAttorneyGen)
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AI Hackers Are Coming Dangerously Close to Beating Humans
By Robert McMillan via Wall Street Journal
Stanford researchers built an AI hacking bot named Artemis and pitted it against 10 professional penetration testers on the university’s engineering network; the system outperformed 9 of them, finding bugs quickly at an estimated $60 an hour vs up to $2,500 a day for humans, though about 18% of its reports were false positives and it still missed an obvious flaw most humans caught. Wall Street Journal
The experiment suggests AI-powered hacking tools are reaching and sometimes surpassing human skill, allowing software vulnerabilities to be discovered and exploited at scale; similar large-language-model tools have reportedly been used by China-linked hackers, raising concern that vast amounts of unvetted existing software could be newly exposed to AI-driven attacks. Wall Street Journal
Developers and maintainers in bug bounty and open source ecosystems, including Curl creator Daniel Stenberg, now see both a flood of low-quality AI-generated reports and a new wave of high-impact findings, such as Artemis uncovering a serious bug on an outdated webpage that human testers’ browsers could no longer render.
𝕏: Holy shit... Stanford just proved AI can outperform human hackers in the real world, and nobody seems to understand how big this is They dropped a paper where they threw 10 professional pentesters into a live university network 8,000 real machines, 12 subnets, production systems, real users and then unleashed AI agents on the same environment to see who actually finds more vulnerabilities. And it wasn’t even close… - Robert Youssef (@rryssf_)
Android users can now share a live video on 911 calls
By Stevie Bonifield via The Verge
Android’s new Emergency Live Video lets 911 responders request an encrypted live video feed during calls, helping guide callers through situations like CPR, first aid, or when they’re lost or too stressed to describe what’s happening.
Callers stay in control: they must approve any video request, can stop streaming at any time, and the feed is encrypted by default, adding visual context without forcing users to share more than they want.
The feature is rolling out in the US starting today on phones running Android 8 or later with Google Play services, initially via RapidSOS, Motorola Solutions, and Prepared911, and follows Apple’s similar Emergency SOS Live Video on iOS.
𝕏: In an emergency, it can be hard to describe exactly what’s happening. That’s why we’re launching Android Emergency Live Video. Dispatchers can now request to see a secure live stream from your camera to quickly assess the situation and get you help faster… - Sameer Samat (@ssamat)
By Noah Smith via Noahpinion
Noah Smith and Brian Merchant debate whether robots will take human jobs, concluding that fully jobless automation is unlikely and that the real issue is how societies manage a highly automated future.
Both argue that new institutions to share automation’s wealth are essential, echoing past tools like welfare states, unions, and labor laws, and raising possibilities like sovereign wealth funds, UBI, or reserved resources for humans.
They diverge on how painful that transition will be: Merchant worries that powerful tech elites such as Sam Altman will block fair redistribution, while Smith is more optimistic, citing the Industrial Revolution
𝕏: A video of my debate with Brian Merchant on whether robots should take our jobs. I argued the “yes” side, and the audience judged me the winner. Thanks to @jasminewsun for putting on the event, and MCing! - Noah Smith (@Noahpinion)
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