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Amália and the Work of Linguistic Sovereignty
Portugal released Amália, an open European Portuguese LLM. Why linguistic sovereignty is infrastructure for operators—and why PT-PT still is not PT-BR.
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Field Notes
Strategic analysis with a regional lens—for builders and decision-makers shaping AI in Brazil, Portugal, Latin America, and other emerging markets.
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Brazil’s Agents Are in Production. That Is Not Maturity
Brazilian enterprises lead a 2026 global survey on AI agents in production. The durable signal is rollback and PII failure—not the deployment headline.
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When Buyers Ask for Eval Packs Before the POC
LatAm enterprise deals are moving evidence earlier. What a one-page eval pack must contain so engineering and sales share the same proof.
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Building AI Where the Defaults Do Not Fit
Why emerging-market AI teams need different assumptions about cost, connectivity, language, and institutional trust.
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The Portugal–Brazil AI Corridor
How Lusophone talent, capital, and enterprise demand are forming a corridor—and where the gaps still hurt.
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