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迪士尼首设 CTO 职位，由 Character.AI 前 CEO 出任
迪士尼宣布首次设立首席技术官（CTO）一职，任命 Character.AI 前 CEO Karandeep Anand 担任，他将直接向公司近期上任的高层汇报。报道未披露其具体职责或迪士尼的 AI 战略细节。
AI推荐理由 The Verge 报道迪士尼首次设立 CTO 职位，由 Character.AI 前 CEO Karandeep Anand 出任，直接向近期上任的高层汇报。这是可验证的人事任命事实，涉及 AI 角色产品背景高管进入传统媒体巨头，对观察 AI 应用与娱乐产业结合有参考价值；但摘要未披露具体职责、AI 战略细节或时间表，信息密度有限，属单一事件报道。
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Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO
The House of Mouse has poached Karandeep Anand from the chatbot company.
The House of Mouse has poached Karandeep Anand from the chatbot company.
by Charles Pulliam-Moore
Sep 18, 2026, 6:27 PM UTC
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Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.
You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time.
Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the company as its new CTO. Anand will report directly to recently appointed CEO Josh D’Amaro, and he will head up the company’s infrastructure, product, engineering, and data / AI platforms teams. Anand comes to Disney from chatbot startup Character.AI, where he served as CEO for just over a year and oversaw the company’s push into microdramas.
Anand jumping ship to Disney comes as a bit of a surprise considering how this time last year, the company was sending Character.AI cease and desist letters due to the startup’s tools infringing on copyrighted IP. But Anand’s hiring could be a sign of how Disney wants to move forward with AI now that its partnership with OpenAI has fallen apart.
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