Latin America

As global sales climb, the reasons people buy records diverge sharply across cultures.

Founded as a home alarm business in 1995, Grupo Seguritech now operates 188 command centers across Mexico and has at least 31 subsidiaries. Now it's coming to the U.S.

Voice AI tools are quickly replacing voice-over and dubbing artists, raising concerns not only about jobs but also loss of cultural relevance in non-English-speaking nations.

Grupo Seguritech quietly built a $1.27 billion surveillance empire. Now it's expanding into the U.S. and across Latin America.

Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech's AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital labor — due to their environmental and social costs.

Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity.

Big Tech’s AI tools trained on Western data often can’t recognize local crops, forests, or farming conditions without adaptation to local environments.

"Gaitana" is the digital stand-in for two candidates who will use the platform to seek consensus from their communities on all legislative matters.

As countries start enforcing new age-limit laws, platforms like Roblox use facial technology — but critics warn of privacy leaks and surveillance.

A consolidation among Chinese carmakers is flooding markets from São Paulo to Dubai.

Online traders are betting millions on war, airstrikes, and political unrest.

A license fee for the use of copyrighted data can compensate creators and help AI companies avoid lengthy legal fights.

In his new book “Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI,” writer Nick Srnicek details how a few tech companies, and the U.S. and China, are jostling to control the development of AI.

Donald Trump’s capture of Nicolás Maduro has fueled speculation that the Latin American e-commerce company will gain from a political change in Venezuela.

Entrepreneurs and tech workers from around the world describe how they navigated the many cloud outages in 2025.

Judges, farmers, and medical patients are pushing the limits of AI.

Scammers masterfully tailor tactics to specific cultural expectations and economic pressures.

The boom in AI data centers is colliding with weak power grids, soaring energy demand, and growing local pushback.

Lawmakers from across Latin America are hardening import regulations for China-based ultrafast fashion, to shield the local textile industry.

A growing Chinese techie community in Nuevo Polanco is fueling a boom in restaurants and markets to serve them.

Chile and tech giants promise economy-wide impact but permits show fewer onsite jobs after construction.

China’s export curbs have forced the U.S. to find critical minerals elsewhere. Can Latin America keep up the supply?

With plummeting prices and slowing demand for EVs, the once-thriving mining towns of Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia are now struggling.

AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

Brazil’s overburdened courts and lawyers are adopting artificial intelligence. But experts wonder whether it serves justice.

President Javier Milei pitched Argentina as an AI hub, but the few jobs and research opportunities are not enough to keep engineers at home.

Mexico's lagging energy grid is forcing companies, including Microsoft, to use generators.

Musicians from Chile to Mexico say bots are stealing streams, siphoning income, and shortening the lifespan of songs. Even Bad Bunny isn’t safe.

The Anacé Indigenous community is going to court to stop a planned TikTok data center they say is being built on their land.

Meituan’s arrival is likely to transform the delivery industry — which has already seen the unlikely partnership between rivals Uber and iFood.

Manufacturing powerhouses Mexico, Malaysia, and India want to become less reliant on expensive imports — without competing with Nvidia or TSMC.

Big Tech has struggled to compete against Brazil’s beloved digital payments system, with the U.S. government now investigating the country’s “unfair trade practices.”

When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America’s cultural and linguistic nuances.

The country recently announced its national data center policy, despite worries that new investments will wreak havoc on the land.

Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender examine the hype behind artificial intelligence in their new book, The AI Con. Below is an excerpt on the invisible labor behind some AI tools.