Disney Asked Character.AI to Go Bankrupt for a Get-Out-of-Lawsuits Card

The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states ...

What Disney Gains From Bidding $20 Million On Character.ai

Disney is bidding $20 million for Character.ai technology after hiring its engineers. The bankruptcy leaves 12 million users ...
The Next Web

Disney to spend $180M on Character.AI staff over three years, filing shows

Disney required that the transaction be fully consummated in a chapter 11 sale process,’ Character.AI’s filing says. Pay and ...
New York Post

Disney orders Character.AI to scrap Marvel, Star Wars chatbots over ‘grooming and exploitation’ concerns: ‘Dangerous to children’

Disney ordered Character.AI to stop creating chatbots that impersonate its iconic characters — from Mickey Mouse to Spider-Man to Darth Vader — raising concerns that the popular app’s bots have ...
Ars Technica

Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech

In a bankruptcy proceeding that kicked off yesterday, Disney has offered to buy some of the technology that powers the controversy-plagued chatbot Character.AI. Disney is willing to pay $20 million ...
Variety

After Disney Cease-and-Desist Letter, Character.AI Says It Removed Media Company’s Characters From Its AI Chatbot Platform

Disney‘s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to Character.AI demanding the AI chatbot company remove numerous characters owned by the Mouse House — and accusing the startup of “blatantly infringing ...
Deadline.com

A Year After Jousting With Character.AI, Disney Names Its CEO As Its First Chief Technology Officer

Karandeep Anand, former CEO of Character.AI, has been appointed as Disney‘s first chief technology officer. He will report directly to CEO Josh D’Amaro, starting in the post on October 2. News of the ...