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Before the compute arrives, the extension agent
Embrapa's new diagnostic methodology finds that farmers score digital-agriculture adoption feasibility a full point higher than developers do — not because the data differs, but because pilot farmers have already cleared the infrastructure barriers developers must account for. Brazil is financing the compute layer of its agricultural AI decade at scale; the extension network that turns a working model into a changed decision on Tuesday morning remains unbudgeted.
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Sunday Essay · Brazil's Sovereign AI Runs Through the Cell Tower
Brazil's sovereign-AI strategy is being built by a set of overlapping institutional decisions rather than by a chip fab or a frontier model: spectrum obligations attached to 700 MHz licences, a state-cloud intermediation layer at Serpro, Telefônica Brasil's portable OpenShift platform, and a CPQD-led public-services model. The coherence is architectural rather than planned, and the cell tower is its load-bearing unit.
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