{"slug": "disney-hires-character-ai-chief-to-drive-its-technology-push", "title": "Disney Hires Character.ai Chief to Drive Its Technology Push", "summary": "Disney hired Karandeep Anand, the chief executive of Character.ai, to lead a technology push, according to The New York Times. The move places an AI chatbot executive inside the media company as it expands its technology efforts.", "body_md": "Article URL: \nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/business/media/disney-ai-technology-karandeep-anand.html\n\nComments URL: \nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786538\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 1", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/disney-hires-character-ai-chief-to-drive-its-technology-push", "canonical_source": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/business/media/disney-ai-technology-karandeep-anand.html", "published_at": "2026-09-21 12:40:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-21 12:53:53.994630+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Disney", "Character.ai", "Karandeep Anand", "The New York Times"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/disney-hires-character-ai-chief-to-drive-its-technology-push", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/disney-hires-character-ai-chief-to-drive-its-technology-push.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/disney-hires-character-ai-chief-to-drive-its-technology-push.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/disney-hires-character-ai-chief-to-drive-its-technology-push.jsonld"}}