TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now
TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now
TikTok plans to invest $37.7B+ to build a data center near Brazil's port of Pecém, partnering with Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, its first project in Latin America
Bloomberg :
Omnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a North Carolina state senator and CNN Brazil found DM9 used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads
Emmanuel Felton / Washington Post :
How Brazil's Pix digital payment system, adopted by 80%+ of citizens, became a target of the Trump administration, which says it unfairly undercuts US companies
Wired: Trump is punishing Brazil because their useful central bank payment system is squeezing out PayPal — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w... Piyush Mittal / @piyushmittal : Brazil built a payment sys...
Since 2019, Brazil's courts have developed or implemented over 140 AI projects that have helped make the country's overburdened judicial system more efficient
https://restofworld.org/... Brazil's overburdened courts and lawyers are adopting artificial intelligence. But experts wonder whether it serves justice. — “We note that the use of AI, in the end, ...
YouTube says its first exclusive NFL broadcast on September 5 averaged more than 17.3M global viewers, including 1.1M average minute audiences outside of the US
YouTube just made history with its first-ever exclusive … Kae Nakajo-Robben : It's not everyday you get to be a part of something so momentous. The Chiefs vs. Chargers game in Brazil was a huge succe...
Sources: the Trump admin is pressuring South Korea, Brazil, the EU, and others to drop plans for new taxes on US tech firms as a part of broader trade talks
Wall Street Journal :
X says France's criminal probe over algorithmic “manipulation” and “fraudulent” data extraction is “distorting French law in order to serve a political agenda”
and especially applying — the sanctions regimes that were envisioned under the DSA and DMA.” - French lawmaker Éric Bothorel X: @globalaffairs : French authorities have launched a politically-motivat...
Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order
Ruling risks stoking tensions with US amid accusations of censorship of social media groups — Brazil's supreme court has ruled …