Show Notes
Disney is bidding $20 million to get bankrupt AI company Character.AI's assets weeks after hiring its CEO to head up its own AI program, and taking a good portion of the staff with him. We're not saying they're up to something, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
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