Hello Kitty's Besties! Meet the Sanrio Characters Debuting in 2026 That Fans Will Be Obsessed with (Exclusive)

Twelve of Hello Kitty's friends are being introduced in the US for the first time by Sanrio. The new characters will be ...
New York Post

Disney to let users make AI videos featuring beloved characters in $1B deal with OpenAI; accuses Google of copyright infringement

May the slop be with you? The Walt Disney Company said Thursday it will invest $1 billion in OpenAI in a deal that will allow users to churn out AI videos with copyrighted characters from “Star Wars” ...
Lifehacker

Disney Will Now Let You Make AI Slop of Its Characters on Sora

December 11, 2025 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google But it seems not all companies want to go down this path. Take Disney, as a prime example. On Thursday, OpenAI ...
Forbes

Making Character Mission-Critical: 3 Paradigm Shifts

Kathryn Bigelow’s 2025 gripping political thriller “House of Dynamite” portrays the chaos unleashed when an unidentified nuclear missile strikes the United States, forcing leaders to confront the ...
Kotaku

Disney+ Is About To Let Users Make AI Slop Of Its Characters

It shouldn’t be surprising that Disney, the company that has become willing to degrade its boldest, most artistic endeavors for profit by churning out unnecessary sequels and bland live-action remakes ...
nerdist

Disney+ Will Soon Let Users Make AI Slop with Its Characters

Boy, Disney continues to be the villain. They have proven time and again that, despite their outward appearance of hopeful art for the whole family, the House of Mouse has but one priority and that is ...
AOL

11 Comedy Characters that Make for Great Halloween Costumes

If you’re still dressing as the Joker on Halloween, it’s time to rethink things. Sure, Heath Ledger’s Joker is one of the greatest movie performances ever, but the costume is staler than an old bag of ...
abc7NY

Labubu, other Pop Mart characters to make debut at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on new float

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The viral Pop Mart character Labubu will make its debut next month at the 99th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on an all-new float. The Chinese toy company Pop Mart announced ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Character platform ego AI raises $6.7m to make in-game characters more human-like

The platform blends small language models and reinforcement learning to create human-like behaviour. Backers include Patron, Y Combinator, Accel, Boost VC, and angels from Coinbase, DeepMind, and ...
PC Gamer

Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters

Nvidia has announced that its Audio2Face animation technology is going open source. On paper, that should make it much easier for a wide range of game developers to create AI characters with ...
Forbes

Is Character A Competitive Edge Or Liability? 5 Differentiators

The promise of elevating character alongside competence in organizations is significant, as Fred Kiel highlighted in his 2015 book “Return on Character,” and my colleagues and I discussed in our 2022 ...