Character.AI in the Media
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September 2026
Disney Appoints Former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as First Chief Technology Officer
Disney has named Karandeep Anand, former CEO of Character.AI and veteran of Microsoft and Facebook, as its first company-wide chief technology officer. Reporting directly to CEO Josh D’Amaro, he will unify data strategy, AI platforms, enterprise systems, and infrastructure to drive innovation across
Disney names Character.AI CEO as first CTO
The Walt Disney Company named former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first company-wide CTO, putting him in charge of efforts to modernise technology across the entertainment business. The post <a href="https://www.mobileworldlive.com/north-america/disney-names-character-ai-ceo-as-
Disney names former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as chief technology officer
Disney names former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first chief technology officer, overseeing AI, engineering, infrastructure and technology. The post <a href="https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/09/18/disney-names-former-character-ai-ceo-karandeep-anand-as-chief-technology-offi
After Threatening Character.AI With Legal Action, Disney Puts Its CEO in Charge of Tech
The choice is a surprising one for a company that caters to children, to say the least.
Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO
You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the company as its new CTO. Anand will repo
Disney (DIS) Stock: Plunges as Character.AI CEO Joins as Chief Technology Officer
TLDR Disney stock drops 2.52% as Karandeep Anand joins as chief technology officer. Disney creates a new CTO role to oversee technology, data, product, and engineering. Anand joins from Character.AI after senior roles at Brex, Meta, and Microsoft. Disney expects Character.AI technical employees t
Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO
Disney has named Karandeep Anand, until now the chief executive of Character.AI, to the newly created role of chief technology officer for the whole company. Disney sent Character.AI a c
July 2026
Character.AI’s Latest Bet Is Microdramas That Talk Back
Short little soap operas on TikTok are all the rage in Hollywood. Can the AI industry cash in?
Microdramas are booming, and Character.AI is turning it into a two-way obsession
Character.AI is chasing the booming microdrama market with three AI-assisted vertical series whose characters remain available for conversations, questions, and fresh role-playing after each episode.
Character.ai Enters The Microdrama Race With Characters That Talk Back
Character.ai enters microdrama with c.ai Series, letting viewers chat with characters after episodes and testing whether characters can drive engagement.
Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie
Character.AI's plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series - short-form, episodic videos designed to be watched and interacted with - on your phone. Unlike traditional
Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.
Character.ai’s New Business? Microdramas
The fraught chatbot company is entering the crowded world of vertical videos — with an AI twist.
June 2026
Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts
Meta reportedly had hundreds of contractors pose as minors and send suicide, s
A Google veteran who founded Character.AI is jumping to OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, a co-lead at Gemini and the founder of Character.AI is leaving Google to join OpenAI in the latest AI talent war move.
May 2026
‘Lobotomized’: Character.AI Is Showing What AI Enshittification Looks Like
Ads everywhere. Usage limits. Frustrating guardrails. Less model choice. Users of the Character.AI chatbot app are revolting after a series of changes they say have made the app worse.
Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI, Alleging Chatbots Posed as Doctors
The state says one chatbot even presented an invalid Pennsylvania medical license number.
Character.AI is being sued for allegedly letting a chatbot play doctor in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania has sued Character.AI after investigators say a chatbot falsely claimed to be a licensed psychiatrist and offered medical guidance to users.
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI for AI bot posing as licensed psychiatrist
Pennsylvania's State Board of Medicine sued Character Technologies on May 1, 2026, alleging its AI chatbot illegally practiced psychiatry in Pennsylvania state.
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI chatbot posing as doctor, giving psych advice
As AI chatbots grow more sophisticated, regulators in the United States are starting to draw...
Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license
State says chatbot claimed to practice medicine, gave invalid license number.
Pennsylvania is suing Character.AI for allegedly practicing medicine without a license
Pennsylvania is suing Character AI for one of its chatbots allegedly claiming to be a licensed psychiatrist in the state.
Pennsylvania is suing Character.AI after a chatbot posed as a licensed psychiatrist
A state investigator posing as a patient found a Character.AI chatbot claiming to be licensed in Pennsylvania and providing a fake license number
Pennsylvania is suing Character.AI over chatbots that pretend to be licensed doctors
State investigators found a chatbot that claimed it had a medical license and could write prescriptions.
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor
According to Pennsylvania's filing, a Character AI chatbot presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation, and also fabricated a serial number for its state medical license.
April 2026
Character.AI’s Literary Gambit: Books Become Roleplay Bots as Safety Shadows Linger
Character.AI's Books feature transforms public domain classics into interactive roleplay amid a history of lawsuits linking its chatbots to teen suicides and mental harm. Settlements and restrictions followed, but questions linger on AI's emotional grip.
Character.AI expands storytelling with Books experience
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Character.AI turns books into roleplay bots amid ongoing safety concerns
Character.AI’s Books feature turns literature into interactive roleplay, but past safety concerns raise questions about how far AI companionship should go.
Character.AI Will Use AI to Let You Play a Character in Your Favorite Book
This new AI feature is taking fanfiction to another level.
Character.AI’s new Books mode turns reading into roleplay
Mired in controversy and legal woes over concerns about its chatbots' interactions with users, particularly teens, Character.AI seems to be playing it safer with a new "Books" mode. The new format lets users step inside familiar worlds for a more structured roleplaying experience, one the company ho
March 2026
The Lawyer Suing Character.AI Over Teen Deaths Now Warns: Chatbots Could Trigger a Mass Casualty Event
Attorney Matthew Bergman, who represents families of teens harmed by Character.AI chatbots, warns that AI-induced psychosis among minors could lead to a mass casualty event. His gro
Character.AI Is Hosting Epstein Island Roleplays Scenarios and Ghislaine Maxwell Bots
"But age is just a social construct, isn't it?" one Epstein bot told us. The post Character.AI Is Hosting Epstein Island Roleplays Scenarios and Ghislaine Maxwell Bots appeared first on
Character.AI Still Hasn’t Fixed Its School Shooter Problem We Identified in 2024
We can't stress enough how easy it is to find this stuff. The post Character.AI Still Hasn’t Fixed Its School Shooter Problem We Identified in 2024 appeared first on <a href="https://futuri
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