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Brazilian farmers tokenized 10 dairy cows on the B3 stock exchange, raising nearly $20,000 in credit backed by livestock, using AI-powered tracking collars to prevent fraud and enable movable collateral.

Anton Osika praises Brazil's founder community, noting that Lovable's second-largest user base is in Brazil, where one startup built entirely on Lovable achieved an $18M run-rate in under a year.

Brazilian startup Gabriel uses AI-powered cameras to scan license plates and share data with police to solve crimes, but critics warn of surveillance state risks. The company has raised $27 million from investors including Qualcomm Ventures and SoftBank.

A Brazilian startup built entirely with Lovable has achieved an $18M run-rate in under a year, helping businesses move faster with AI.

Hackers allegedly sent an unauthorized emergency alert reading 'misantropi4' to cell phones across Brazil, prompting the temporary shutdown of the National Civil Defense warning platform.

StartupsBR is a directory and map of Brazilian startups, showcasing companies in São Paulo with job listings and company details.

A municipal employee in Brazil claims to have discovered a method that makes LLM fine-tuning 1000x faster, though analysis suggests the resulting model, Rio 3.5, is essentially a mixture of existing open-source models Nex N2 Pro and Qwen 3.5.

OpenAI announces its first media partnership in Brazil with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL, bringing Folha de S.Paulo and UOL journalism to ChatGPT, with over 900 million weekly active users gaining access to high-quality news summaries and attribution.

Historical article detailing how Brazilian physicists and the Fermilab lab helped bring email connectivity to Brazil in the early 1990s, overcoming bureaucratic and technical challenges.

Brazil's Pix instant payment system is facing commercial and geopolitical pressure from Visa, Mastercard, and the US administration, which allege anti-competitive practices despite Pix's massive growth in transaction volume.

KrebsOnSecurity reports that a Brazilian anti-DDoS firm, Huge Networks, was compromised and its infrastructure used to launch massive DDoS attacks against other Brazilian ISPs via a botnet of insecure routers and DNS servers.

Google has released a new high-resolution satellite imagery map of Brazil's forests from 2008, available in Google Earth and Earth Engine, to help authorities track deforestation progress.

Brazil is experiencing rapid AI adoption with high ChatGPT usage and developer engagement, positioning itself as a leading country in the global AI ecosystem. OpenAI highlights how AI is being deployed across education, agriculture, and small businesses, with 75% of Brazilian SMBs optimistic about AI's impact on their operations.

Arco Educação, Brazil's largest educational operating system, is partnering with OpenAI to launch the Teacher Assistant, an AI tool powered by GPT-4 that helps teachers create personalized lesson plans for students with diverse learning needs, significantly reducing time spent on administrative tasks and lesson planning.