{
  "id": 14206166,
  "title": "Character AI Files for Bankruptcy and Signs $20 Million Disney Deal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy-and-signs-20-million-disney-deal",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-13T13:11:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/business/2026/character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy-and-signs-20-million-disney-deal/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Character AI has declared bankruptcy and agreed to sell some of its assets to Disney. The chatbot maker announced Tuesday (Oct. 13) that it had entered into a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to set the stage for a court-supervised sale of its business. “Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and improve our business amid […] The post Character AI Files for Bankruptcy…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}