{"type":"post","id":"31-states-and-dc-object-to-character-ai-1f5875","slug":"31-states-and-dc-object-to-character-ai-1f5875","title":"31 states and DC object to Character.AI bidding process and Disney's stalking-horse status","description":"A coalition of 31 US states and the District of Columbia has objected to the proposed bidding process in Character Technologies’ bankruptcy and to Disney Worldwide Services’ proposed stalking-horse status.","retrieval_nugget":"A coalition of 31 US states and the District of Columbia has objected to the proposed bidding process in Character Technologies’ bankruptcy and to Disney Worldwide Services’ proposed stalking-horse status. For AI builders, the event is a reminder that a product’s technology, licences, workforce arrangements, and sale process can become inseparable when an AI company enters court-supervised restructuring.","published_at":"2026-10-28","updated_at":"2026-10-28","record_date":"2026-10-28","date_kind":"published_at","topics":[],"entities":["Character Technologies","Character.AI","Disney Worldwide Services"],"related_patterns":[],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"31 states and the District of Columbia objected to the proposed bidding process and Disney’s stalking-horse status, seeking fairer third-party bidding and opposing approval of prepetition activities.","prior_refs":["memory:2cdafce7-b324-8dcd-a92f-17657087a239"],"source_url":"https://www.mealeys.com/mealeys/articles/2543098/states-file-objection-challenging-bidding-process-for-bankrupt-ai-chatbot-company","source_urls":["https://www.mealeys.com/mealeys/articles/2543098/states-file-objection-challenging-bidding-process-for-bankrupt-ai-chatbot-company"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:31-states-and-dc-object-to-character-ai-1f5875","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/31-states-and-dc-object-to-character-ai-1f5875/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/31-states-and-dc-object-to-character-ai-1f5875.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/31-states-and-dc-object-to-character-ai-1f5875.json"},"next_reads":[{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/source-ledger.json","url":"https://newruntime.com/source-ledger.json","title":"Source Ledger","reason":"Inspect the public source evidence graph.","media_type":"application/json"}]}