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Brazil's AI-powered music revolution
Tech

Tech Roundup: Brazil’s AI-powered music revolution

A music production hub born from a Brazilian AI-powered app, Music.AI has just launched a tool that records artists' voices and makes them available for commercial creations through AI, respecting copyright

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
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Economy

Market Roundup: Brazilian startups should not be aiming for an IPO

Despite the probable resumption of the stock market in this year's final quarter, M&As are still the best exit strategy for Brazilian tech-based companies

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
cocoa harvest
Tech

The startup helping producers comply with EU deforestation rules

Dimitra has established its Latin American headquarters in Brazil, also serving Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, and others in the region

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
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Web Summit Rio

Targeting people’s real problems keeps AI teams engaged

Prominent leaders spoke to The Brazilian Report's deputy editor Fabiane Ziolla Menezes on the Web Summit Rio center stage Wednesday

2 weeks ago • Isabela Cruz
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Web Summit Rio

Nvidia about to announce “supercomputing plan” for Brazil

Nvidia prepares to launch a new generation of chips this year and Brazil is on the path of high-capacity computing investments

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
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Web Summit Rio

TBD, Jack Dorsey’s newest venture, lands in Latin America

TBD officially announced the global availability of the first set of software development kits (SDKs) of its platform tbDEX

3 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
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Tech

Rio wants to be the new Latin American innovation capital with Web Summit

Web Summit Rio kicked off today, with Mayor Paes wanting to make his city Latin America's innovation capital

3 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
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Tech

Tech Roundup: What to expect from Web Summit Rio 2024

Much bigger than 2023, the second edition brings new content tracks and much more emphasis building real, often not obvious, connections

3 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
IBGE President Marcio Pochmann presents President Lula with Brazil's new world map. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/PR
Politics

Brazilians’ polarization hits cartography, in new world map

2 weeks ago • Isabela Cruz
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Politics

Brazil’s firearms debate takes a U.S. twist

2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Opinion polls show increasing power of right-wing governors
Politics

Opinion polls show increasing power of right-wing governors

3 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Cedê Silva
Elon Musk is a freedom of speech absolutist — when it suits him. Photo: Frederic Legrand/COMEO/Shutterstock
Politics

How Elon Musk joins Brazil’s online far-right

4 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Musk probe increases likelihood of an X ban in Brazil
Politics

Musk probe increases the likelihood of an X ban in Brazil

4 weeks ago • Paulo Roberto Netto
Madonna concert to boost Rio de Janeiro's economy
Insider

Madonna concert to inject BRL 300 million into Rio economy

1 day ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
sabesp privatization
Insider

Sabesp privatization edges closer with São Paulo legislation

1 day ago • Cedê Silva
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Insider

OECD improves Brazil’s GDP growth forecast once again

2 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
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Insider

Rio Grande do Sul declares state of calamity due to rains

2 days ago • Cedê Silva
The Brazilian Report shortlisted for four Digiday Media Awards
Insider

The Brazilian Report shortlisted for four Digiday Media Awards

2 days ago • Isabela Cruz
Market Roundup: The new skills corporate board members need
Economy

Market Roundup: The new skills corporate board members need

12 hours ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
textor botafogo match-fixing
Economy

Brazil missing the target with its match-fixing drama

2 days ago • Euan Marshall, Cedê Silva and Lucas Berti
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Economy

Lula, Congress swap places in fiscal responsibility debate

2 days ago • Isabela Cruz
Brazil's job market continues to beat forecasts
Economy

Brazil’s job market remains strong despite unemployment uptick

4 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
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Economy

Market Roundup: Brazil’s plan to protect green investors from forex risks

1 week ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Brazil's AI regulation gets first draft to guide upcoming debates
Tech

Brazil’s AI regulation gets first draft to guide upcoming debates

1 day ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech Roundup: Brazil has a new unicorn
Tech

Tech Roundup: Brazil has a new unicorn

5 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Brazil's AI-powered music revolution
Tech

Tech Roundup: Brazil’s AI-powered music revolution

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
cocoa harvest
Tech

The startup helping producers comply with EU deforestation rules

2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
eduardo paes web summit rio
Tech

Rio wants to be the new Latin American innovation capital with Web Summit

3 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
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Society

The legacy of Ayrton Senna, 30 years on

4 days ago • Euan Marshall
Brazil wants to know more about its domestic workers
Society

Brazil wants to know more about its domestic workers

5 days ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Covid moderna vaccine late
Society

Brazil’s latest Covid vaccine purchase comes too late

5 days ago • Cedê Silva
Failure to deliver on indigenous land promises has drawn the ire of indigenous activist groups, who are gathered in Brasília this week for the Acampamento Terra Livre
Society

Indigenous groups snub Lula as patience runs out

1 week ago • Euan Marshall
President of Portugal calls for slave trade reparations
Society

President of Portugal calls for slave trade reparations

1 week ago • Euan Marshall
Affordability is the key to making EVs popular in Brazil
Environment

Affordability is the key to making EVs popular in Brazil

1 week ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
state grid electrical substation in Brazil. Chinese power giant State Grid will build a 1,513-kilometre transmission line and two substations in Brazil’s north-east, a region experiencing a boom in wind and solar power plants. (Image: Jose Luis Stephens / Alamy)
Environment

What State Grid’s new power line means for Brazil’s energy transition

2 weeks ago • Paulo Motoryn
Petrobras is failing on Paris climate goals vat
Environment

Petrobras is failing on Paris climate goals

1 month ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Brazil's coal city resists energy transition
Environment

Brazil’s coal city resists energy transition

2 months ago • André Borges
amazon climate change
Environment

Amazon climate crisis continues with Acre floods and Roraima fires

2 months ago • Cedê Silva
Protests in Panama City against the renewal of a concession for the Cobre Panamá copper mine. After weeks of demonstrations, in November 2023 the contract with Canadian firm First Quantum was declared unconstitutional, and the mine shuttered. Photo: Arnulfo Franco/Alamy
Latin America

As elections near, what’s next for Panama’s closed copper mine?

13 hours ago • Errol Caballero
Panama ready to vote as Supreme Court clears frontrunner
Latin America

Panama ready to vote as Supreme Court clears frontrunner

1 day ago • Lucas Berti
Argentina milei protests kirchner
Latin America

Will Argentina’s opposition take advantage of massive anti-Milei protests?

6 days ago • Ignacio Portes
Financial instability on the cards as Bolivian gas exports are no longer what they once were
Latin America

Bolivia’s economic model called into question as gas dominance wanes

2 weeks ago • David Feliba
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Latin America

Could Ecuador’s referendum mark the birth of a new Bukele?

2 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
How Brazil plans to use the G20 to be a climate leader
Opinion

How Brazil plans to use the G20 to be a climate leader

2 weeks ago • Bruna Santos
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Opinion

The future of X in Brazil, under Elon Musk

3 weeks ago • Andre Pagliarini
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Opinion

AI and data protection in the spotlight at Global Privacy Summit

3 weeks ago • Marcela Mattiuzzo and Paula Pedigoni Ponce
Brazil's nuclear energy goals may be focused more on military objectives than adding much to their ambitious sustainability agenda
Opinion

The future of nuclear power in Brazil’s diversified energy infrastructure

4 weeks ago • Jennifer Eaglin
curb AI-generated disinformation elections
Opinion

Is Brazil going too far to curb AI-generated disinformation?

1 month ago • Bruna Santos