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- Disney appointed Karandeep Anand as its first-ever chief technology officer, a newly created role at the company
- Josh D'Amaro, Disney's chief, positioned the hire as part of an effort to make Disney a tech-forward entertainment company
- Anand joins Disney from Character.AI, where he most recently served as CEO of the generative AI chatbot start-up
- Character.AI is a generative AI chatbot company, per the source
Why it matters: Disney created its first CTO role and staffed it with a tech executive whose most recent leadership post was at a generative AI start-up. D'Amaro explicitly framed the hire as Disney repositioning itself as a tech-forward entertainment company, putting AI squarely at the center of that push.
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