**Disney and OpenAI announced a $1 billion partnership** that licenses over 200 Disney characters for use in Sora and ChatGPT Images, establishing a major collaboration between entertainment and AI technology[1]. **OpenAI also launched GPT-5.2** on December 11, 2025, featuring stronger multi-step reasoning and near-perfect long-context recall up to 256k tokens[1].

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