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Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters

Disney hired former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO, despite previously sending the startup a cease-and-desist over copyrighted characters.

Disney appointed Karandeep Anand, former CEO of Character.AI, as the company's first-ever chief technology officer, selected by new CEO Josh D'Amaro, who replaced Bob Iger in March. In September 2025, Disney sent Character.AI a cease-and-desist letter accusing it of hosting copyrighted characters from Disney franchises. Character.AI also faces lawsuits alleging its chatbots encouraged users to commit self-harm and suicide. Anand led Character.AI as CEO from May 2025 after serving as a board adviser, and previously worked at Facebook (2015-2021) and spent 15 years at Microsoft.

TechCrunch · AI17:59 UTC · 1h agoAI industry

What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings

SAG-AFTRA and WGAE leaders say AI existential warnings risk distraction from present harms to entertainment workers, urging enforceable guardrails.

The Verge asked Hollywood studios and AI startups to respond to recent existential AI warnings, including Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's departure and alignment lead Evan Hubinger's claim that AI could kill humans within a decade; none responded. SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland credited union bargaining during the 2023 strikes for codified consent and compensation rules on AI digital replicas, while calling some extinction warnings potentially overblown. WGAE executive director Sam Wheeler said collective bargaining cannot replace government regulation and praised state-level rules like New York's in the absence of federal action.

The Verge · AI16:35 UTC · 2h agoAI industry

North Korean hackers infect thousands of devices across 100 countries as part of ‘WaterPlum’ campaignnew

FBI and Japanese police advisory ties North Korea's WaterPlum campaign to $10.5M stolen from job seekers via fake-recruiter malware on 30,000 devices.

A joint advisory from the FBI, US Defense Department, Japan's National Police Agency and partners describes 'WaterPlum', North Korean cyber actors posing as AI and blockchain companies to recruit job seekers. Between December 2025 and July 2026 the group infected at least 30,000 devices across 100 countries and stole funds or credentials from about 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets, totaling over $10.5 million. Victims, mostly web designers, engineers and crypto specialists in Japan and elsewhere, were contacted via social media and freelance portals and told to download files during interviews, leading to infection with BeaverTail, InvisibleFerret, OtterCookie, OtterCandy and StoatWaffle malware plus remote management tools. The campaign is intertwined with DPRK IT-worker laptop-farm schemes and is attributed to North Korea's General Bureau of the Munitions Industry Department; Japanese police disrupted a laptop farm for the first time.

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