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title: "Disney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights (Todd Spangler/Variety)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/disney-hires-former-character-ai-ceo-karandeep-anand-as-its-first-cto-e1f9782f
published: 2026-09-18T16:20:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Disney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-18 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/disney-hires-former-character-ai-ceo-karandeep-anand-as-its-first-cto-e1f9782f

Todd Spangler / Variety : Disney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights — Disney chief Josh D'Amaro, in a move that shows he's trying to position the Mouse House as a tech-forward entertainment company …

In this story: [Disney](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/disney), [Character.AI](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/character-ai)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260918/p18#a260918p18)

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