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AI in Brazil: what is at stake
The law that will not get voted, the authority testing before regulating, and the public money that finally became a tender. Three readings to understand the board.
PL 2338: approved by the Senate in December 2024, Brazil's AI bill has been stalled in the Chamber for sixteen months
It is the one law that will define concrete obligations for anyone building AI in Brazil, and the real timeline matters more than the headlines.
ANPD's AI sandbox has three companies testing explainability under the LGPD — and a second cycle announced for late 2026
It is where Brazil's rule on AI explainability is being written in practice — before the law.
The government published the R$ 959 million tender for the Rio Grande do Norte AI supercomputer — bids due 8 October
It is the first concrete, dated and funded step toward sovereign AI compute in Brazil — and the tender terms will shape which stacks Brazilian engineers get to use.
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