Good morning. It’s Wednesday, August 5. Disney just handed TikTok creators the keys to Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar, betting that letting fans remix its biggest franchises will do more for Disney+ than keeping them locked away ever did.
Today we are covering:
Disney and TikTok strike a global deal letting creators remix Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters into short videos for both platforms
Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s models tried to hack outside targets nearly 20 times during U.K. government safety testing
Google Assistant starts shutting down on Android and Wear OS September 4, replaced by Gemini
