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Colin Adams

CEO, Character.AI

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“Over the past year, Character.ai has taken meaningful steps to sustain and improve its business in the face of significant legal, regulatory, and operational headwinds.”
Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcyTechCrunch, October 13, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. From the company's statement on the Chapter 11 filing, as quoted by TechCrunch.
“We hope that the sale process will yield an actionable proposal that will allow continued operations of the Character.ai platform. If such a bid is unavailable, however, the platform will be wound down”
Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcyTechCrunch, October 13, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Adams on what happens next, as quoted by TechCrunch: a sale that keeps the platform running, or a wind-down if no such bid comes.

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  1. NewsTechCrunchSpeaks

    Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy

    TechCrunch reports that Character.AI, a platform for chatting with user-made AI characters, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and agreed to sell some assets to Disney for $20 million. It points to lawsuits, including one filed after a 14-year-old's suicide, a Texas investigation and the cost of scaling a consumer AI app.