Disney is offering $20 million to license technology from bankrupt Character.AI and is hiring most of its staff. The deal shows how large companies buy innovation once someone else has paid for the risk.
ChatGPT was supposed to bury Google. Three years later, Alphabet is worth $4.3 trillion, Gemini is nearing 900 million users and cloud is growing more than 80%. Autopsy of a death foretold that never happened, and the lesson for your company.
Google just pulled off something even some governments no longer dare to do: borrowing money for 100 years. I read it twice. A century-long bond,