SEC denies Apple and Disney bids to skip shareholder votes on AI

Media giants fail to block union moves to table vote on their use of AI.

The SEC has rejected requests from Apple and Disney to omit shareholder votes in upcoming annual meetings about their deployment of artificial intelligence.

The proposals had been filed by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the union behemoth known as the AFL-CIO, which sent similar shareholder

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