Disney’s big bets on the metaverse and AI slop aren’t going so well

Disney's massive AI and metaverse investments are failing spectacularly. OpenAI is shutting down Sora just months after Disney's $1B collaboration deal, while Epic Games (Disney's $1.5B metaverse partner) is laying off 1,000 employees with no progress to show. This represents a concentration of power story - tech giants making billion-dollar bets on AI infrastructure that ordinary consumers and workers will ultimately pay for through higher prices and job losses, even when the technology fails to deliver.