{"id":468957,"date":"2026-09-19T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468957\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T10:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:10:28","slug":"disney-names-first-ever-technology-chief-as-it-bets-bigger-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468957\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Names First-Ever Technology Chief As It Bets Bigger On AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karandeep Anand, most recently CEO of Character.AI, will join the Walt Disney Company on Oct. 2 as senior executive vice president and chief technology officer, reporting directly to CEO Josh D\u2019Amaro.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing the hire, D\u2019Amaro laid out three priorities for Disney: keeping \u201cgreat storytelling as our North Star,\u201d using technology \u201cin service of creativity\u201d and operating as \u201cOne Disney.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karandeep Anand, most recently CEO of Character.AI, will join the Walt Disney Company on Oct. 2 as senior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-468957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}