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Investing in Brazil

Eco Invest Brasil

Brazil Just Opened the Door Wider

Inside the R$2.5 Billion Bet on the Technologies Powering the Green Transition eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, July 31, 2026 – Brazil is making one of its clearest statements yet that it wants global capital at the table for its next industrial chapter. On July 28, 2026, the Ministry of Finance published the Operational Manual for the 5th…
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Antropic book scanning

Why AI Giant Anthropic Is Destroying Old Books to Save Its Future

eyesonbrasil In a quiet industrial facility, a heavy steel blade slices through the sewn spine of a century-old hardcover book. Pages that survived wars, economic collapses, and decades of silent storage in forgotten attics fall away, suddenly unbound. Within seconds, a high-speed sheet feeder swallows them whole, converting thousands of words of forgotten human thought…
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Conferência Brasileira Clima e Carbono

São Paulo’s Carbon Moment

Inside the 4th Brazilian Climate and Carbon Conference eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, July 29, 2026 – Nine months after the world’s diplomats packed up their translation headsets and left the Amazonian heat of Belém, Brazil’s carbon market is about to get its next big stage — this time in the glass-and-concrete sprawl of São Paulo. The Conferência…
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Navigating the EU AI Act

Legal Liability, Transparency, and the New Rules for AI in Newsrooms eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, July 26, 2026 – The landmark European Union AI Act introduces stringent guardrails that directly impact how newsrooms leverage artificial intelligence. Under these new regulations, using AI assistants to draft or generate news articles is subject to heightened scrutiny, forcing editorial teams…
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Tupinambá de Olivença Indigenous Territory in Acuípe de Cima

The Palm That Could Fuel a Beauty Boom — Or Break a Forest

In a corner of Bahia’s Atlantic Forest, a small palm fruit sits at the center of a big question: can traditional communities cash in on global demand without cashing out the ecosystem that makes it possible? eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, July 22, 2026 – Visiting the Tupinambá de Olivença Indigenous Territory in Acuípe de Cima, Bahia, Brazil,…
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China's Flying Cars Are Leaving the Runway

China’s Flying Cars Are Leaving the Runway — And the Factory Floor

eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, July 22, 2026 – For decades, the flying car was science fiction’s favorite broken promise. In 2026, China is trying to make good on it — not with a single prototype, but with actual assembly lines. Backed by a national policy push around what Beijing calls the “low-altitude economy,” a handful of Chinese…
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NaMo Green Rail

The Train That Breathes Water

Inside India’s First Hydrogen Locomotive eyesonbrasil From Sketch to Steel Amsterdam, July 21, 2026 – On July 17, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood at Jind railway station in Haryana and flagged off a train unlike any that had ever moved on Indian rails. Its name: NaMo Green Rail. Its fuel: hydrogen, stored in onboard…
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Lionel Messi

The Seleção of Spectators

How Brazil Learned to Watch the World Cup Final From the Couch eyesonbrasil There is a very specific kind of pain reserved only for Brazilians this July 19th. It’s not the pain of losing a final. It’s the pain of not even being in one — and watching your oldest, most beloved, most insufferable rival…
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STF

The Justice, His Son, and the Seleção

Inside Brazil’s CBF Conflict-of-Interest Storm eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, July 15, 2026 – Brazilian football has never been short of controversy, but the latest one doesn’t involve a coach, a referee, or a scandal-plagued president. It involves a sitting justice of the Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) — Brazil’s Supreme Court — and questions about how close his…
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Casimiro Cazé TV

The Streamer Who Out-Broadcasted a Broadcasting Giant

eyesonbrasil For 54 straight years, watching the World Cup in Brazil meant watching Globo. The network had aired every tournament since 1970, building a viewing ritual so entrenched it barely registered as a choice. In 2026, that streak ended — not because a rival network finally out-bid Globo, but because a 31-year-old from Rio de…
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