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Daily Business Brief source watch: Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce
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techcrunch.com feed headline: Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce. Feed excerpt: “The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who” [1]
ftc.gov feed headline: FTC Sues Operator of Sextortion Relief Scheme for Misleading Consumers into Believing it Would Identify Criminals and End Sextortion Attacks. Feed excerpt: “Digital Forensics charges consumers thousands of dollars but fails to provide promised” [2]
openai.com feed headline: Amp puts AI agents to work beyond code with OpenAI models. Feed excerpt: “See how Amp pushes the frontier of what agents can do with” [3]
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- [1]Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce
TechCrunch — Startups · Source published Oct 18, 2026
- [2]FTC Sues Operator of Sextortion Relief Scheme for Misleading Consumers into Believing it Would Identify Criminals and End Sextortion Attacks
Federal Trade Commission — Press Releases · Primary source · Source published Oct 13, 2026
- [3]Amp puts AI agents to work beyond code with OpenAI models
OpenAI — News · Source published Oct 14, 2026
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