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Monday 19 October 2026

Disney hires most of Character.AI's staff in bankruptcy deal

Disney is paying US$20 million for a licence to Character.AI's tech and about US$180 million over three years for the staff it hired.

Suki Marr Monday 19 October 2026, open calendar5 min read

Photo: Coolcaesar / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), cropped

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Disney is paying US$20 million for a copy of Character.AI's technology. It expects to spend about nine times that on the people who built it.

The Alameda Avenue entrance to the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California — Photo: Coolcaesar / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), cropped

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