Company
Character.AI
Consumer AIPrivate CompanyMenlo Park
26/100
↗ +1.5 (7d)
Talent & Organizations
Disney's Bankruptcy-Court Math: $180 Million for the People, $20 Million for the Company
A court filing in Character.AI's Chapter 11 case puts a rare, explicit price on an AI acquihire — showing Disney valuing the startup's staff at roughly nine times what it's paying for the technology itself.
Regulation & Policy
Character.AI's Bankruptcy Shows State Enforcement Can Now Kill an AI Company
Facing lawsuits from state attorneys general and grieving families, the chatbot company filed for Chapter 11 and agreed to sell its IP to Disney for $20 million — a sign that state-level child-safety enforcement, not federal rulemaking, is setting the real boundaries on consumer AI.
Regulation & Policy
Florida's AG Asks a State Judge to Do What Congress Hasn't: Halt OpenAI's Model Development
In a motion filed in Highlands County circuit court, Attorney General James Uthmeier is seeking a temporary injunction that would bar OpenAI from training new frontier models without independent oversight — the most aggressive use yet of state consumer-protection law against an AI lab.