{
  "id": 15348360,
  "title": "Filing: Disney agreed to hire 60+ staff from Character.AI and pay them ~$180M over three years, plus $30M for retention awards; a bankruptcy judge must approve (Bloomberg)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/filing-disney-agreed-to-hire-60-staff-from-character-ai-and-pay-them",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-18T03:50:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-10-17/disney-offers-soft-landing-to-staff-at-troubled-character-ai"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "More than 60 workers at Character.AI are being offered a lifeline from the media giant … Soft Landing — Layoffs are common in bankruptcy.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "e27",
        "title": "Character.ai was worth US$2.7B to Google. Disney just offered US$20M",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/character-ai-was-worth-us-2-7b-to-google-disney-just-offered-us-20m",
        "published": "2026-10-15T08:00:23.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
}