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What's happening with Character.AI

On October 12, 2026, Character.AI announced a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to sell the company under court supervision. The app is still running for now. The company expects the sale to finish by the end of November or early December 2026, and says the platform will be wound down if no workable bid comes in.

Disney made the opening bid: $20 million for a non-exclusive license to Character.AI's intellectual property. Reports say that bid doesn't include user data. Other bidders can still compete, and 40 state attorneys general have asked the court to protect consumer data in the sale.

Case documents list these proposed dates, which can still move: bids due November 20, an auction on November 23 if rival bids arrive, and a sale hearing on November 24.

Sources: case summary (checked November 2) · Character.AI's update · CNN · CBS News · Bloomberg Law

Protect your chats and characters this week

1. Request your data export now. Character.AI lets you export your data from the app or the website. Its help center says it can take 3 to 4 weeks, so a request made today may arrive around the time the sale is decided.
2. Save the characters you love. Open each character's edit screen and copy its greeting, description and definition somewhere safe. NuraMate can't import Character.AI chats automatically, so keep what matters to you.

Why people choose NuraMate

• Your memories, your call. See everything your companion remembers, and correct, pin or delete any of it, anytime.
• Your data, downloadable anytime. Download everything we store about you — profile, conversations, memories and photos — as a ZIP file from your account.
• Private by design. We never sell or share your personal information for advertising, never use conversations for ads, and never show them to other users.
• Adults only, clear boundaries. NuraMate is 18+ and non-explicit, with companions built for a healthy connection.
• Free to start on the web. Free plan, no card needed.

Bring your character to NuraMate in 3 steps

1. Copy the greeting, description and definition from your Character.AI character.
2. On NuraMate, choose Create your own and open Bringing a character from Character.AI? Paste it here. Paste the name, greeting, description and definition, then choose Import: the fields are filled for you, and a definition longer than the Backstory (3,500 characters) continues in the character's Lorebook, entries about their world used whenever their keywords come up. Fill in anything still empty, such as their job and city, and pick a portrait style. Prefer to do it by hand? Paste the description into One-line description and Personality, the definition into Backstory and How they text, and the greeting into Their first message.
3. Start chatting, set an opening scenario if you like, and keep building your story together.

Placeholders carry over: paste text with {{user}} and {{char}} as they are, and NuraMate fills in your name and your character's.

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