Anthropic benefit fund, Disney's Character.AI hires, Meta AI crawlers - October 19, 2026

Cortech Daily · Oct 19, 2026 · 7m

Anthropic pledges five percent of its shares to a public benefit fund, Disney hires most of bankrupt Character.AI, Meta drives half of AI bot traffic, and Linux 7.3 sets a record.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:25) - Anthropic says it's committing 5% of its shares to a 'public benefit fund' - source

(1:24) - Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI's workforce - source

(2:13) - Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta - source

(3:03) - Ransomware pressure now reaches employees' homes and families - source

(3:50) - Linux 7.3 released - source

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