Bob Iger’s final act as C.E.O. of Disney—his now-canceled billion-dollar deal with OpenAI—had a certain logic to it. In one fell swoop, Iger would jujitsu Sam Altman from a threat into a partner, ensure that his kingdom wouldn’t be overrun by the tech barbarians at the gate, and burnish his bona fides as a media visionary before quite possibly reprising his old role as an advisor at Thrive, an early OpenAI investor. But Iger’s lame-duck decision didn’t have a ton of support internally, I’m told, and many executives breathed sighs of relief last week when OpenAI unceremoniously shut down Sora, its generative A.I. video platform, thus killing the Disney deal.