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Chat GPT failed

Failed Because of ChatGPT?

How Students Can Actually Use AI Well eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, September 29, 2026 – It’s a story you hear more and more often these days, even though it’s rarely said out loud: a dissertation, prepared over months, fails a plagiarism or AI check. A term paper gets rejected as “not independently produced.” An examination board asks…
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Lely Astronaut milking robot

The Robots Are Milking

From Astronaut milking robots to feed-pushing Junos, Dutch company Lely has spread automated dairy farming across Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay — and Brazil, now Lely’s Latin American headquarters, is leading the pack.

Paraguay Investment Forum 2026 New York

Paraguay Steps Onto Wall Street’s Stage

Paraguay brought its investment pitch to New York, landing a $200 million J.P. Morgan forestry deal — while Brazil keeps absorbing the cost of Trump’s tariffs.

Arcadis e Sabesp

Delta Meets Delta: How Dutch Water Expertise Is Reshaping Brazil’s Cities

From AI-powered leak detection in São Paulo to Arcadis’s fifteen-year infrastructure partnership with SABESP, Dutch water technology and entrepreneurship are quietly reshaping how Brazil’s cities manage drought and flood.

President Yamandú Orsi

From Montevideo’s Sidelines: How Uruguay Reads the Lula-Trump Showdown at the UN

Uruguay wasn’t invited to Trump’s “Shield of the Americas” anti-narcotrafficking coalition — and neither was Brazil. As Lula and Trump traded pointed messages at the UN, Montevideo has spent 2026 trying to build an alternative seat at the table.

Lula, Trump, and Brazil's Fraught Election Season

Two Speeches, One Fractured Alliance

Lula, Trump, and Brazil’s Fraught Election Season eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, September 22, 2026 – When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stepped to the podium to open the UN General Assembly’s 81st session on September 22, 2026, he wasn’t just delivering Brazil’s traditional opening address — he was speaking, twelve days before his own re-election bid, directly…
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Inside Brazil’s Ethanol Gamble

What the Government’s Own Numbers Don’t Show eyesonbrasil On August 1, 2026, Brazil’s gas pumps quietly started dispensing E32 — gasoline with 32% ethanol, up from 30%. Six weeks later, on September 18, the government authorized testing to push that further, to 35%. Officially, this is presented as a routine technical evolution. A closer look…
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Heineken Brazil

Why Dutch Companies Keep Choosing Brazil

eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, September 21, 2026 – At first glance, the Netherlands and Brazil could hardly look more different — a nation of 17 million squeezed into land it partly reclaimed from the sea, and a continent-sized country of over 200 million people with the world’s largest tropical forest inside its borders. Yet Dutch companies have…
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Turns the Mirror on Itself

The Moraes-Master Vote eyesonbrasil Brasília, September 15, 2026 — For the first time in the modern history of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), the country’s highest court convenes today not to judge someone else, but to decide whether one of its own sitting justices should be formally investigated. At stake is Justice Alexandre de Moraes…
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Epilogue Tilly Norwood

🎬 Epilogue: “The Outgrown Creation”

“A Vez Da Tili” continued eyesonbrasil As twilight deepens over Rio’s cobblestone streets, the crowd’s cheers fade into a reverent hush. The android — once a doll, now towering above her maker — stands bathed in the golden light of streetlamps, her blue eyes flickering like distant stars. Tilly Norwood kneels before her creation, the…
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