Last week, the two companies announced that Disney would allow OpenAI’s Sora to draw from a library of more than 200 animated and creature characters, including Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, Ariel and Simba. Disney also agreed to take a $1 billion stake in OpenAI at its current $500 billion valuation.

As Disney inks a $1 billion deal with OpenAI to license its characters for AI videos, the entertainment giant is also going after Google. Disney sent Google a cease-and-desist letter Wednesday, alleging that Google AI models are infringing on its copyright protections on a "massive scale."

Zootopia 2” regained the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office with $26.3 million in its third weekend of release, according to studio estimates Sunday.