Disney hires about 60 engineers from bankrupted Character.AI for its AI push
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-10-19
After chatbot specialist Character.AI's bankruptcy, Disney has hired roughly 60 of its engineers to build out its AI strategy — a rare large-scale talent acquisition showing legacy content giants buying AI capability directly through teams rather than products.
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