A stretch of Argentina that mostly exports wind, gas and sheep is being pitched to the companies building AI infrastructure, and some of them are listening. Developers and energy firms are courting hyperscalers for data centre projects across Patagonia…
Brazil votes on October 4, and its electoral court spent Tuesday working through a question that many regulators are still struggling to answer: what exactly counts as a deepfake? The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral was expected to rule on broader restrict…
Brazil’s federal government has sued Discord for R$500M, about $97M, over what it describes as severe gaps in the platform’s age verification and user safety protections. It lands three days after Discord appealed against the data protection authority’…
Brazil is spending 2.3bn reais, about $444m, on two AI supercomputers. One will be built with Huawei, the other is expected to go to Nvidia, and that is the entire point. “The strategy is not to depend on a single company, technology or country,” the L…
Argentina’s government wants to let a company trade with no person in charge of it, and it has sent Congress a bill to make that legal. The proposal creates a new category called the non-human corporation, an entity run by AI agents or robots that can …
Venezuela has no national earthquake warning system. Yet moments before two huge quakes hit on Wednesday, millions of phones lit up. Google earthquake alerts reached 11.4 million people, the company says, buying some of them up to two minutes to act. T…
ContourGlobal, the independent power producer backed by KKR, has inaugurated a nearly $500 million solar-and-storage facility in Chile’s Atacama desert that stores daytime solar energy and delivers it after sundown. The Victor Jara hybrid plant combine…