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🤳 Why Meta matters in Brazilian elections

Oct 20, 2026

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🤳 Why Meta matters in Brazilian elections

Lula's campaign says Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are muffling the left days before the October 25 vote. Meta blames glitches.

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Oct 13, 2026

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⚖️🤖 Below the bar

The São Paulo chapter of the Brazilian Bar Association wants a federal court to rein in Enter, a legal-tech startup. The case may decide how far AI can go inside Brazil's overloaded courts.

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Oct 6, 2026

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8 min read

💻 Sovereignty-as-a-service

Brazil wants a top-10 artificial intelligence machine, built on home soil and free of any single supplier.

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Sep 29, 2026

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5 min read

🪓 Back on the chopping block

Ceitec survived one liquidation order and is halfway through a BRL 220 million upgrade. Its accounts give critics an easy line of attack.

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Sep 22, 2026

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6 min read

🗂️ Data market rails

Companies say they don't trust each other enough to trade data. A startup with ties to Congress and two state IT firms is offering a fix.

Elizabete Fernandes

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Sep 15, 2026

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6 min read

📱 Chat control

Brazil has launched a state-run encrypted messaging app to get government workers off WhatsApp for official business. But the software was never the only weak link.

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Sep 8, 2026

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6 min read

🖥️ Open arms for data centers

The Senate passed a tax break; TikTok's owner has a new project in Ceará, and mayors are competing for server farms.

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Sep 1, 2026

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6 min read

🛰️ No longer the last resort

Elon Musk's satellite service now sells more connections in São Paulo than in the Amazon.

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Aug 25, 2026

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6 min read

🔒 From pocket change to a real fine

A new penalty against ByteDance dwarfs everything Brazil's data protection authority had ever collected before.

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Aug 18, 2026

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6 min read

😴 Brazil tells crypto to sleep on it

A new Central Bank rule will require large transfers to be parked for 24 hours before they leave the country. The market it slows is mostly stablecoins, mostly Tether, and mostly bought inside bank apps.

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Aug 11, 2026

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6 min read

💾 Data center crunch

Inventory has grown sixfold since 2012 and could double again by 2030. Whether it does depends less on cheap land than on delivering firm power to a developer's schedule.

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Aug 4, 2026

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5 min read

☁️ Cloudy terms

A no-bid deal turned Paraná's IT company into a Google reseller. Investigators are now looking at the arrangement

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Jul 28, 2026

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🔐 All bark, no budget

The LGPD gave Brazil a European-grade privacy regime and almost none of the enforcement to go with it.

Matheus Puppe

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Jul 21, 2026

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6 min read

🚁 Quiet, please

Eve, Embraer's eVTOL subsidiary, reaches an important milestone: certification of the noise its aircraft produce.

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Jul 14, 2026

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7 min read

⏪ Copying Europe's past

A bill headed for a House vote before the recess would turn CADE, Brazil's antitrust authority, into a permanent regulator of digital markets.

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