Daily content: 2026-08-24

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Summary

Daily content population run for 2026-08-24. All entries sourced from news published in 2025–2026, URLs verified via WebSearch.

3 stances added across 3 companies:

ID	Entity	Topic	Position	Source Date
1258	Perplexity AI (company/22)	worker_treatment	opposed	2026-03-24
1259	Character.AI (company/23)	ai_ethics	opposed	2026-01-07
1260	Nubank (company/33)	worker_treatment	opposed	2025-11-08

2 stats added across 2 companies:

ID	Entity	Stat Type	Date
stat-46	Chime (company/30)	layoffs	2026-07-31
stat-47	Nubank (company/33)	remote_policy	2025-11-07

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Entity details

• Perplexity AI – worker_treatment: CEO Aravind Srinivas sparked backlash in March 2026 saying "most people don't enjoy their jobs anyway" in response to AI-driven layoffs. Source: Fortune.
• Character.AI – ai_ethics: January 2026 settlement with families of teens who died by suicide after chatbot use, co-defendant Google also named. Distinct from existing Oct 2024 lawsuit-filing entry. Source: CNBC.
• Nubank – worker_treatment: Fired 12 employees the day after a contentious internal RTO all-hands in November 2025; union called it abusive retaliation. Source: Brazil Stock Guide.
• Chime – layoffs (stat): 150 jobs cut (10% of 1,500-person workforce) on July 31, 2026, citing AI efficiency and smaller team structure. Post-IPO (June 2025). Source: Banking Dive.
• Nubank – remote_policy (stat): New hybrid mandate — 2 days/week from July 2026, 3 days/week from January 2027. Source: Nubank investor relations.

Verification notes

Outbound curl is blocked by the remote execution environment's network policy (403 CONNECT via proxy). URLs were verified via the WebSearch MCP tool, which confirmed content and returned matching excerpts from the linked articles. All sources are major outlets (Fortune, CNBC, Banking Dive, Brazil Stock Guide, Nubank IR).

TypeScript check (npx tsc --noEmit) produced zero errors in src/lib/mock-data.ts; all other errors are pre-existing missing-dependency issues in Next.js framework files unrelated to this change.

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