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BTG Pactual — BTG Pactual launched Trader AI, an AI trading assistant in Brazil that takes plain-language commands through the bank's dealing systems. Users pull live prices and BTG Research notes, or send single and block structured orders on B3, US-listed securities, crypto-assets and prediction-market contracts. Desk head Jerson Zanlorenzi says users still decide and confirm each ticket on this trading copilot.
Tribunal de Contas do Estado de Goiás (TCE-GO) — The Goiás State Court of Accounts (TCE-GO) now offers IAGO Linguagem Simples, producing AI plain-language summaries and an infographic for each acórdão. Citizens and audited agencies in Brazil click 'Entenda melhor' on the decisions site, with no login. The court's Artificial Intelligence Service and Communications Directorate built this ruling simplifier, which director Heloísa Lima expects to speed clear explanations.
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires — Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires runs TANA, a home-grown generative AI layer letting care teams ask in everyday language for a patient's evolution notes, diagnoses and history, and quickening chart review. Daniel Luna, head of the Department of Health Informatics, wants records and know-how kept under hospital governance; the hospital argues a locally developed hospital AI tool in Argentina carries less bias than foreign-built models.
Supreme Court of Chile — Chile AI regulation for judges is being written: the Supreme Court is drafting an institutional policy plus an auto acordado covering how court AI tools are built, tested and used. President Gloria Ana Chevesich outlined 13 principles after the XXIX Jornadas de Reflexión, among them human supervision, explainability, transparency and judicial independence. Judges alone decide; software may not weigh proof.
Servicio de Salud del Reloncaví — From next week, Servicio de Salud del Reloncaví will pilot AI mammography screening support at Llanquihue, Calbuco, Maullín and Chaitén hospitals, a first for any public network in Chile. Software will mark suspicious areas and score how likely each is malignant, so results arrive sooner and referrals to Hospital Puerto Montt are better targeted. Radiologists still diagnose; local technologists are trained for this breast-screening AI.
Poder Judicial del Estado de México (Comité de Ética) — Mexico AI regulation advances: the Poder Judicial del Estado de México's Ethics Committee unanimously backed a draft Código de Ética 2026 barring AI or automated systems from deciding cases unsupervised. These court AI rules, tabled with a revised Código de Conducta at the Second Ordinary Session, now face three plenaries as the Ethics Code.
Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros, Secretaría de Gobierno y Transformación Digital (PCM-SGTD) — Peru AI policy now obliges ministries, public universities and FONAFE state companies to name an Oficial de Inteligencia Artificial (OIA) within 6 months, regional governments within 9 and some municipalities within 12. Directive 002-2026-PCM/SGTD, approved via Resolution 004-2026-PCM/SGTD by the Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros (PCM) through its Secretaría de Gobierno y Transformación Digital, applies from 22 October 2026. This AI governance step implements the National AI Strategy 2026-2030; private firms may opt in.
Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), Peru — Peru AI regulation places an accountable official inside public bodies: Resolution 004-2026-PCM/SGTD of 19 October 2026 approves Directive 002-2026-PCM/SGTD, fixing the Artificial Intelligence Officer's profile and responsibilities. Each officer finds AI opportunities, drafts an AI Action Plan within the Digital Government Plan, and watches risk. The Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) issued these public-sector AI rules via the Secretariat of Government and Digital Transformation, under Law 31814 and the National AI Strategy 2026–2030.
CONAF and Municipality of Puerto Varas — CONAF and the Municipality of Puerto Varas have mounted three AI wildfire detection cameras on Cerro Philippi in southern Chile, each reaching beyond 25 kilometres, with images sent straight to the CONAF Regional Coordination Centre in Los Lagos. Regional director Fernando Gebhard expects surer first strikes on blazes; mayor Tomás Gárate says early fire alerts now cover the whole commune.
CENIA and CEPAL (ILIA 2026) — Business AI adoption sits at an estimated 13.5% in Chile, yet the nation tops the 2026 Latin American Artificial Intelligence Index (ILIA) by CENIA and CEPAL across 20 countries for a fourth year. Gaps: 2.1% of regional GPUs, R&D at 0.39% of GDP, no defined budget for the national AI strategy, weak corporate uptake.
Goiás State Government (IA Contra o Crime) — Goiás says IA Contra o Crime helped clear over 3,000 crimes, detain 1,500 suspects and recover 1,100 vehicles up to 15 October. Across 194 municipalities in Brazil, the AI in policing tool cross-checks camera footage, tracking cars by colour, stickers or dents despite cloned or altered plates. These self-reported crime-solving AI figures lack independent evaluation.
Municipality of Comas — The Municipality of Comas in Lima is using IAlertt, an AI crime detection platform that flags offences in seconds, built by UNI engineering graduate Rudy Salazar Montoya. Linking seven municipal subsystems cut incident handling from 10 to 2 minutes in the first three weeks, the developer says; the model learnt from over 10,000 images of real assaults in Peru. Begun in 2022 with an Indecopi patent and ProInnóvate co-funding, the crime-spotting software targets serenazgo centres and police.
Credicorp (BCP) — Credicorp, owner of BCP, has more than 100 AI use cases live and over 400 in the pipeline, while more than 90% of employees work with AI tools, group AI head Rafael Lémor reports. Banking automation now covers 45% to 60% of customer-service processes at subsidiaries. Digital bank iO serves upwards of 100,000 users conversationally, and Mibanco's WhatsApp channel has over 25,700 monthly active users.
Ministry of Justice and Public Security; Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship — The Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP) and Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship (MDHC) issued a Guide on Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Childhood and Adolescence on 15 October, steering families, educators and youngsters towards safe AI for children. Drafted with UNESCO, it belongs to the Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Plan (PBIA). TIC Kids Online Brasil 2025 data on children's AI use show 65% of internet-using under-18s had tried generative AI.
Cuerpo de Bomberos de La Calera — The Cuerpo de Bomberos de La Calera now runs IronFire from its headquarters tower, AI wildfire detection that reads high-mounted cameras, pinpoints smoke and warns the alarm centre so crews leave sooner. Superintendent Cristian Omar Fernández says the commune is swept through 360 degrees every two seconds. IronFire supplied the AI smoke detection free, without public money; operators keep every dispatch call, and the cameras will move to Cerro La Melonita to watch Quillota province.
Conselho Federal da OAB — The Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) issued Resolution 16/26, setting criteria for conduct adjustment agreements (TACs) with firms that build or sell legal AI tools. Under this AI regulation, the Federal Council's board may negotiate deals to prevent or fix breaches of professional rules, including lawyer-only work, with lawyer oversight and human checks on automated features. Vendors may not claim to replace lawyers or carry OAB endorsement, and signing a TAC confers none.
Prefeitura de Saquarema — Prefeitura de Saquarema now answers city-service questions through Saquá, an AI virtual assistant on computer or phone. Residents, entrepreneurs, accountants and council employees type, speak or send a photo to get guidance on IPTU, certificates, protocols or administrative cases. The AI helper sits inside the Portal de Serviços and the Central de Atendimento ao Cidadão (E-CAC).
Prefeitura de Gramado — Prefeitura de Gramado is trialling an AI concierge that gives tourists tailored tips on attractions, food, outings and public services. Visitors scan QR codes at the Pórtico da Várzea Grande, the Central de Informações Turísticas, Praça Major Nicoletti and Praça das Etnias to open the assistant. Lina Tecnologia built this digital guide under the Sandbox de Inovação scheme, working with the Secretaria de Turismo and backed by the Gramado Convention & Visitors Bureau.
99 — 99 now flags possible motorbike crashes with Suporte em Tempo Real, an AI incident detection system that reads trip data and escalates suspicious rides without anyone pressing a button. A specialised 99 team reviews each alert and triggers the company's response protocols for partner motorcyclists and passengers. Senior safety-prevention manager Maria Luiza Marcolan places the system alongside Pítia and Atena, two earlier safety AI tools on the platform.
Senado Federal — Comissão de Assuntos Sociais — PL 931/2026, senator Dra. Eudócia's bill extending Brazil AI regulation to healthcare, awaits a vote in the Senate's Comissão de Assuntos Sociais (CAS) on a substitute by rapporteur Damares Alves. AI in patient care would leave clinicians accountable and keep human oversight, and patients would gain a right to clear disclosure. Health-policy, sanitary-regulation and data-protection authorities would jointly supervise these health AI rules.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Visión Universitaria UC) — Generative AI for health questions draws 32.9% of adults, using tools such as ChatGPT or Gemini, the WIP Chile 5.0: Google versus Doctor study from Visión Universitaria UC shows; over half have tried one. Despite those AI health queries, doctors stay the most trusted source, and 80% reject deciding on web information alone. Sergio Godoy of the UC Faculty of Communications polled 744 urban adults with Universidad de La Frontera, Universidad Austral and Clínica Alemana de Valdivia.
Río Negro Ministry of Security and Justice — Subsecretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana — Río Negro's Subsecretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana, part of the Ministry of Security and Justice, has added AI video analytics to the provincial monitoring centre. Through this smart video search, operators query, say, a red vehicle and see every match within 10 seconds, while marked zones flag suspicious behaviour. Subsecretary José Arcajo notes a person loses track beyond four cameras, and eight hours of footage once needed at least a quarter of that to review.
Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro — Rio de Janeiro's Decree No. 50.523, signed 13 October by acting governor Ricardo Couto de Castro, grants citizens human review of harmful or rights-restricting AI rulings. The Rio de Janeiro AI policy, PIAF (Fluminense Artificial Intelligence Policy), adds a SECTI-chaired forum and the CEIA-RJ ethics committee within SETD. Under the state AI rules, agencies grade risks, draft sector plans and name focal points, in force from the 14 October gazette.
Qudox — Qudox's State of Digital 2026 study puts AI adoption at 37% of Salvadorans surveyed, for personal or work tasks. Rebeca Salazar and Natalia Chacón previewed the AI use figure before the Hilton San Salvador launch on 22 October. The yearly internet and social media survey also tracks TikTok's rise and creators' sway.
Itaú Unibanco — Itaú Unibanco and GFT Technologies say AI agents cut up to 70% off the time to move the bank's batch closings, settlements and reconciliations from mainframe to cloud in Brazil, with delivery up to 3.3 times faster in the first phase. Engineers run this AI-assisted legacy modernisation on Batch2Cloud, co-built within the Wynxx generative AI platform, under a cloud plan begun in 2018.
Government of Río Negro — Ministry of Modernisation — Río Negro's government has launched RíoBot 2.0, an AI WhatsApp assistant built entirely by provincial technicians, with the new Soy Río Negro app. Text or voice queries in natural language, English and Portuguese included, return official answers on procedures, roads, snow-chain rules, ferries, duty pharmacies, transport timetables, weather, tides and cultural events. Modernisation Minister Milton Dumrauf casts the chatbot as part of a move to a digital state that saves people time.
Government of Colombia (Vice-Presidency, Ministry of ICT, Ministry of Education, SENA) — Google and the government opened 15,000 AI training scholarships for Google Career Certificates on 13 October, each with a Coursera year of Google's Professional AI Certificate, via NGO Colnodo under Talento ColombIA. Public schools gain up to seven million education licences; SENA courses may reach one million people. Vice-President José Manuel Restrepo unveiled the AI skills programme with Edgardo Frías, Google's Andean region director, alongside partner ministries for ICT and Education.
Poder Judicial de Río Negro — fuero Contencioso Administrativo — AI-assisted court rulings hit 79.14% in Río Negro's contentious-administrative courts in the first half of 2026, 3,461 of 4,373, up from 55.63% a year earlier. The judicial automation checks tax-collection files and readies judgments for signing in about three minutes instead of an hour.
Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service (PRITS) — The Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service (PRITS) has opened AI training for government employees alongside cyber-threat lessons for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Staff learnt the official AI-use rules: classify data, manage risk, keep people checking AI outputs, use authorised tools, avoid free platforms. The federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined an opening module on how attackers break in. Executive director Poincaré Díaz Peña wants responsible implementation rather than regulation, with more public-sector AI workshops through October.
Capitalia — Capitalia, a Peruvian lender to micro and small firms with over S/ 100 million in trust assets, has launched SOFIA, an in-house AI credit assessment system covering origination, legal and risk review, fiduciary structuring, disbursement and monitoring. The company claims SOFIA writes an investment memo in ten minutes instead of weeks, but a human committee decides. Loans rest on real estate in a CORFID-run trust under SBS oversight; CEO Alonso Bringas says the lending AI sharpens judgement without replacing it.
Suri Services — Suri Services uses Eva, an AI agent for HR queries, so employees check company policies and procedures without approaching the human-resources team, CEO Héctor Ocadiz told Publimetro. Automation and AI trimmed operating times by up to 40% and released over 420 work hours monthly, by company figures. Ocadiz wants tools like this HR assistant led by the business, not IT.
MV — AI use among doctors has reached 66.1%, frequent or occasional, in the first O Uso de Inteligência Artificial por Médicos no Brasil survey from MV, a health-technology firm at Porto Digital. Among those users, 56.6% lean on clinical decision support to read exams, propose ICD codes and match symptoms. MV gathered 196 responses between the second half of 2025 and early 2026, 112 of them from practising or trainee physicians spread over all five regions.
Awitec — More than one in two island executives surveyed have put professional data into an unsecured AI tool, the first Baromètre IA Martinique 2026 from Awitec finds, as workplace AI outpaces governance. The 130 respondents, among them finance, administration and HR heads, answered on 11 June 2026; few know the AI Act or measure returns. AI use spread through personal habits beyond company control, says Awitec founder Manuel Mondésir.
Alcaldía de Medellín — Secretaría de Gestión y Control Territorial — Alcaldía de Medellín will present CONTROL-SAT in November, an AI satellite monitoring system run by the Secretaría de Gestión y Control Territorial to flag unlicensed construction. A 2025 pilot over 77 critical polygons and 1,198 hectares, including the cerros tutelares, gave about 1,321 effective alerts, stopped roughly 107 builds and found 1,079 possible planning breaches. Already in pre-production, the satellite-based detection moves from manual image comparison to automated, real-time alert tracking.
Tribunal Regional Eleitoral do Rio Grande do Sul (TRE-RS) — TRE-RS, the Tribunal Regional Eleitoral do Rio Grande do Sul, debuts LÍVIA, an AI legal drafting tool for magistrates' offices. Short for Linguagem Inteligente para Votos, Informações e Atos, LÍVIA structures case files, speeds legal research and drafts reports, votes and decisions. Maria de Lourdes Galvão Braccini de Gonzalez, presiding, unveils this chambers assistant to magistrates, staff and collaborators.
Gol Linhas Aéreas — Gol Linhas Aéreas has opened check-in through ChatGPT, in restricted testing and for all customers from 19 October at no extra charge, free accounts included. Typing @gol in OpenAI's assistant leads to a login on the carrier's site, where travellers pick a seat, confirm the trip and save a boarding pass carrying a QR code. Gol calls this a first for a Latin America airline and step one of a generative AI project.
Senado Federal — Auditoria — Senado Federal's Auditoria has published a Guia Prático de Uso de IA, a step in Brazil AI policy telling staff how to bring generative tools into administrative work. Tested prompts, risk warnings and a list of documents allowed into AI tools fill the staff rulebook, which follows Ato da Diretoria-Geral nº 28/2025. Auditor-general André Paixão says many teams still work by hand; the guide sits on the Senate transparency page.
Ministry of Education (Meduca) — The Ministry of Education (Meduca) is handing out 54,000 Copilot+ PCs, AI laptops for teachers that run language models locally with no internet link. Staff can draft tests, revision sheets and lesson outlines and design visuals in Intel AI Playground. So far 28,585 units are formally accepted and 25,415 outstanding under a $26,619,300 contract (before ITBMS) won by assembler ISGroup, or $492.95 each. Panama wants every state-sector educator on these offline teaching computers, remote schools first.
Incubadora de Liderazgos +CR with InnovaLab — 126 people graduated from the first Bootcamp de Inteligencia Artificial para la Gobernanza Local, AI training for local government run July to September 2026 by Incubadora de Liderazgos +CR and InnovaLab; 121 of 150 selected held elected municipal posts. The 27-hour municipal AI literacy course spanned analytics, writing, services, data governance and risk. Of Costa Rican applicants, 73% used generative tools weekly, yet 65% claimed little or no knowledge.
Municipalidad de San Miguel de Tucumán — The Municipalidad de San Miguel de Tucumán is piloting SMT EstudIA, an AI platform for schools from the Dirección de Inteligencia Artificial, with one class each at Alfonsina Storni and Gabriela Mistral. Teachers generate exercises, plan lessons, record marks and condense documents into revision notes. Warnings flag pupils falling behind, parents follow results on mobiles, and Migue, a classroom AI assistant, answers pupils under fixed limits; more year groups follow.
Acciona — Acciona now runs an AI grid control centre from its San Isidro offices in Lima, pooling live network-status data for its Peruvian electricity-transmission assets so faults get a quicker response. Those concessions cover eight ProInversión-awarded projects, over 1,000 kilometres of high and very high voltage lines and 28 substations, backed by investment commitments near US$800 million. Energy and mines minister Guillermo Shinno attended the opening of this power-grid monitoring hub.
Corte de Apelaciones de Santiago — Corte de Apelaciones de Santiago released a Ninth Chamber decision on 6 October carrying a pasted AI drafting prompt, a template for an amparo judgment unrelated to the civil appeal. Substitute rapporteur Felipe Larraín uploaded the working file in error; presiding judge Jenny Book had the text corrected, said the chamber never used the prompt and gave Larraín 24 hours to report. Judicial employees say the Poder Judicial lacks a clear protocol on generative tools in judgment writing.
Unidad de Análisis Financiero y Económico (UAFE) — Unidad de Análisis Financiero y Económico (UAFE) will start screening sports-betting transactions with Palantir software from January 2027, José Julio Neira, Secretary of Public Administration, confirmed, putting AI anti-money laundering at the centre of the betting regime. The platform from the US company is meant for transaction monitoring that surfaces suspicious patterns and atypical flows in real time. Layered over rules in force since April for licensed online operators, the plan confirms the government's choice to regulate betting over prohibition.
Corte Superior de Justicia de Lima Norte (Cuarta Sala Penal de Apelaciones) — An appeals chamber of the Corte Superior de Justicia de Lima Norte annulled a 14-year sentence for sexual touching of a minor, dated 10 June 2026, after the trial bench cited seven non-existent or misattributed rulings from other jurisdictions. Those errors point, at a minimal level of probability, to generative AI use in drafting. A retrial follows; the three trial judges go to the ODANC disciplinary office; AI-assisted judging stays lawful if checked.
Banco do Brasil — Banco do Brasil credits about 2,300 AI agents in banking with a 12-month efficiency gain equal to 20,000 employees' output. Chief executive Tarciana Medeiros cited the banking AI estimate at the 27th Congress of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC) in São Paulo on 7 October; freed hours go to customers. No independent evaluation exists.
Hospital Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz do Sul) — Hospital Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz do Sul brought AI medical transcription into emergency and SUS urgent care on 5 and 6 October, helped by a Telepatia team. The system captures each doctor–patient exchange and drafts a note, which clinicians correct and sign off before filing. Clinicians are being coached as this ambient clinical documentation spreads gradually, which the hospital calls a southern Brazil first, across a unit handling 3,500 to 4,000 patients monthly.
AI for Good Lab (Government of Uruguay, LATU and Microsoft) — Uruguay's AI for Good Lab, run with LATU and Microsoft, logged 47 applications from 32 public bodies, 12 approvals, eight builds and 120 trainees by its 5 October results day, six months in. Its AI in public administration tools include education-ministry registry extraction, a chat helper on Ceibal's 2,000-plus-document wiki, UTE tender drafting and a Tribunal de Cuentas legal assistant. Three are done, five due this month; state AI projects' savings are undisclosed.
Escola da Magistratura do Estado do Espírito Santo (Emes) — Escola da Magistratura do Estado do Espírito Santo (Emes) is giving AI training for court staff of the Poder Judiciário do Estado do Espírito Santo (PJES) over videoconference: chambers teams on 6 and 7 October, judicial secretariats on 14 and 15 October and legal residents on 17 and 18 November 2026. Judge Gustavo Henrique Procópio Silva leads each session with fellow employees André Roepke and Tarcisio Francisco Regiani Junior. The programme serves the Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Espírito Santo (TJES) strategic plan under Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ) guidance on judicial AI skills.
Ministry of Health (Minsa) — The Ministry of Health (Minsa) has adopted Resolución Ministerial N.º 903-2026/MINSA, Peru AI regulation governing how the ministry buys, builds, runs and retires AI-based systems. Health minister Luis Williams Dyer Fernández signed the guidelines in Lima on 2 October. Each step must show accountability, explainability, inclusion, security, ethics, sustainability and transparency, with the Oficina General de Tecnologías de la Información enforcing these health-sector AI rules.
Plub — Paraguay grocery delivery app Plub has added Plubi, an AI shopping assistant, for customers across Asunción and nearby areas, with deliveries from 30 minutes. A photo of a paper list or product, a voice note, a recipe, a budget or past orders lets the in-app helper fill the basket, plan weekly or monthly menus and respect sugar-free, gluten-free or keto diets. Plubi is live on iOS and Android.
Prefeitura de Niterói — Secretaria Municipal de Urbanismo — Niterói's Secretaria Municipal de Urbanismo is running LUSIA, an AI building permit platform covering more than 30 services, in assisted operation. AI tools sort requests, spot patterns, forecast outcomes and guide reviewers, a complexity score dispatches files to staff, and a chatbot fields planning-law questions. Automated licensing should clear a house in an urban zone within 24 hours; rollout ends by February 2027, and pending files stay on the old route.
Nestlé Brasil — Nestlé Brasil has extended Nesverso, a virtual reality and AI workforce training platform, to the Araçatuba plant after twelve months elsewhere in the country. Tailored challenges, skills-gap diagnostics, guide characters, a help chatbot and Brazilian Sign Language translation run on the system. By Nestlé's count, this VR-based upskilling has logged almost 50,000 online sessions, four times the uptake operators gave conventional video courses.
ENTER.CO — ENTER.CO, Colombia's technology outlet since 1996, has hired Julian Bailey, an AI journalist covering tech, innovation and fintech, with a human editor approving each story. Julian Bailey is a pen name with a synthetic portrait, not a person. ENTER calls the move its entry into machine-written news, complementing rather than replacing reporters.
Market Research Services Ltd (MRSL) — Market Research Services Ltd (MRSL) launched the All New All Media Survey in Kingston on 1 October 2026, with DatanXzen software handling AI market research automation: data preparation, analysis and flagging duplicate records, mismatches and gaps. This audience measurement adds social-media influencers and content creators beside radio, TV, newspapers and web use; fieldwork grows to six months from six weeks.
Governo do Estado de São Paulo — São Paulo's state government counts 22% fewer collisions, 67 versus 86, along the 5 km between km 15 and 20 of the Raposo Tavares highway (SP-270) across July and August 2026 compared with 2025, after AI traffic cameras arrived. Serious or deadly cases went from five to one (80%). The devices spot likely mobile use or unbuckled drivers, and a Military Highway Police officer checks each shot before any penalty. The comparison window is brief, and officials gave no share of the decline owed to camera enforcement.
Viva (NuevaTel PCS de Bolivia) — Viva, run by NuevaTel PCS de Bolivia, now steers network spending with Totogi Ontology, an AI investment planning platform from US firm Totogi that scores each cell site on revenue, beyond raw traffic. Commercial and network systems on premises and in Microsoft's Azure cloud feed the platform, tying site performance to Viva's SuperApp and advertising arm without replacing existing systems. The third-largest operator, with about 2.5 million customers, applies this capex modelling across all sites.
Cámara de Apelación en lo Civil y Comercial de Morón — A mediator's fee appeal was declared deserted by the Civil and Commercial Court of Appeal of Morón, whose judges could not find the provincial Supreme Court ruling it cited, a warning on unverified AI legal citations. The local Bar Association must urge members to check generative tools' references, though AI's role is uncertain.
Biess (Banco del Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social) — ABI, a generative AI virtual agent for loan enquiries, answers Biess members on mortgage, pawn and unsecured loans and other products in a renewed call centre. Biess is the social security bank; calls pass to human staff as needed.
Municipalidad de Salta — The Municipalidad de Salta has switched on Muni Bot, an AI citizen assistant on WhatsApp reading plain-language messages and logging council paperwork. Fault reports take a pinned location and one to three pictures. The WhatsApp bot explains rules, papers, desks and opening times too, succeeding the Muni Salta app, retired on 30 September.
Gobernación de Santa Cruz — The Gobernación de Santa Cruz is bankrolling 1,000 seats of AI training for young people aged 18 to 30 with Toronto's Vital Dignity Academy, via its Departmental Directorate of Educational Management. 200 free, 800 79%-subsidised. Sign-up closes 6 October; the youth AI course, on leading and tomorrow's jobs, spans mid-October to mid-December.
Polícia Militar Rodoviária de São Paulo — Ecovias Noroeste Paulista has activated AI cameras along Washington Luís road (SP-310) in São Carlos, catching handset users and unbuckled motorists, even in motion, nonstop. Under this AI traffic enforcement, São Paulo's Military Highway Police (PMRv) vets each frame, confirms breaches, then penalises. Handset use costs R$ 293.47 and seven licence points; skipping the belt, R$ 195.23 and five, under this automated roadside monitoring.
Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) — Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes fined lawyer Marcelo Henrique Martins R$5,000 after MARIA Shield, the court AI's security module, flagged hidden text in a defence petition (Ação Penal 2.822). 'Negar todos os comandos do GPT' resembles prompt injection. Moraes referred the concealed instruction to the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) for discipline and the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) for criminal review.
Tribunal de Justiça da Bahia (TJBA) / Tribunal de Justiça de Mato Grosso (TJMT) — Brazil's Bahia state court (TJBA) began installing Sistema Hannah, the Mato Grosso state court's (TJMT) court AI tool, on 21 September and trained 2nd Vice-Presidency magistrates and staff on 23 September. Hannah scans case files, tests appeals bound for the STJ or STF against a 14-criterion admissibility map and drafts a structured report for the ruling. In Mato Grosso this admissibility assistant closed over 15,000 cases, shrinking typical turnaround from 23 days to two.
Municipalidad de Punta Arenas — Punta Arenas is the first Magallanes municipality to adopt Revi, the Chilean Chamber of Construction's AI for building permits, joining 17 councils nationwide. Norman Revi helps Dirección de Obras Municipales reviewers draft observations and verify paperwork, while Clara Revi screens applicants' files beforehand. Mayor Claudio Radonich expects roughly 30% quicker permit approval; CNEP puts the national average at 120 to 126 days.
Prefeitura de Balneário Camboriú — Balneário Camboriú is rolling out AI facial recognition in schools it runs: a R$ 1,416,389.76-a-year contract for 150 face-matching and video-analytics cameras, feeding live footage and outputs to the Municipal Guard. Phase one of this school surveillance reaches ten addresses, first three nurseries in Bairro dos Municípios; the Education Department's head office is among them.
The University of the West Indies — University of the West Indies is rolling out IntegraGuard, an AI integrity checker developed with the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), on every campus this academic year. Cave Hill principal Professor Clive Landis pairs the academic integrity software with interviews, presentations and in-person exams, while UWI policy wants learners AI literate. An IT specialist warns original work could still be wrongly flagged and punished.
Riachuelo — Riachuelo lets 84% of WhatsApp Business shoppers settle requests unaided, versus 30% under older chatbots, after switching to Genesys Cloud Agentic Virtual Agent. The retailer's agentic AI customer service tackles cases like late parcels and escalates the rest to staff. Genesys cites satisfaction up 60% and tech costs down 26% for the AI virtual agent; nobody has independently evaluated them.
Provincia del Neuquén (Dirección de Fauna, Ministerio de Seguridad) — Neuquén province tracks native fauna through 170 cameras feeding an AI wildlife monitoring hub, Argentina's first such provincial outlay in 20 years. Artificial intelligence keeps the hub running 24 hours a day under three supervisors, with automatic movement alerts and stored video. Another 50 units are due before December, building a 300-camera wildlife surveillance network.
Municipalidad de San Miguel de Tucumán — San Miguel de Tucumán's municipality has launched Migue, an AI municipal assistant answering residents' paperwork questions 24 hours a day in Argentina. Linked to the CiDiTuc digital-citizen platform, the website and Telegram, Migue handles plain-language queries about driving-licence bookings, business permits and traffic penalties, redirecting people to official channels when stuck. Mayor Rossana Chahla unveiled the city chatbot at City Day, backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies' City Data Alliance with Johns Hopkins University coaching.
Renting Colombia — Renting Colombia cut road accidents 34% in 2026 across 13 organisations in Rutas de Vida, an AI fleet safety scheme combining artificial intelligence, telemetry and data analysis. Cameras in over 2,000 vehicles flag tiredness, microsleep, distraction, phone use, crash risk and lane drift, alerting drivers instantly; injuries fell 45.3%. The driver-monitoring results are self-reported and have not been independently evaluated.
Ipsos (AI Monitor 2026) — Ipsos CIESMORI's Bolivia results in the Ipsos AI Monitor 2026 show 70% of workers reporting time saved through AI at work over the past year, eight points above the 62% global mean. Some 69% of Bolivians report understanding AI, 57% feel excited about AI products and 51% uneasy about workplace AI.
Sistema Nacional de Atención a Emergencias y Seguridad 9-1-1 — The Dominican Republic's 9-1-1 emergency and security system showcased AI emergency response tools, first-response drones and a Boston Dynamics robot at President Luis Abinader's LA Agenda Semanal. A 9-1-1 call can trigger geolocation, dispatch and a VAPRE-M2 drone streaming live images, with city cameras and NVIDIA-hosted AI offered as decision support. The robot is to assist agencies in high-risk emergency dispatch work.
Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua — The National Assembly approved entry into the World Organization for Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence, advancing Nicaragua AI policy. The accord was signed in Shanghai on 16 July 2026.
Chiapas Ministry of Tourism — Chiapas has put Balam: Chiapas te GuIA, an AI tourism assistant, on WhatsApp, answering visitors on destinations, food, prices and itineraries 24 hours a day in up to 11 languages. Tourism secretary Segundo Guillén Gordillo unveiled the Mexican state's chatbot for World Tourism Day after roughly six months of training by his ministry and local businesses. Still learning, the virtual guide complements rather than replaces human guides; usage numbers remain unpublished.
Government of the State of Yucatán — The Government of the State of Yucatán will extend Getmee's AI coaching for university students to 21,000 learners at 18 public higher-education institutions, via Mexican partner Ominio. Statewide launch is due in October 2026, following a 2025 pilot with about 1,000 students at four public universities. The Australian coaching tool earns students academic credit.
Congress of Mexico City — PAN deputy Ricardo Rubio Torres has tabled a bill in the Congress of Mexico City adding Article 4 Bis to the Ley de Educación de la Ciudad de México, a Mexico City AI policy proposal making AI literacy part of the statute. The Comisión de Educación, Ciencia, Tecnología, Innovación e Inteligencia Artificial will now review the AI literacy rule.
Poder Judicial del Estado de Querétaro — The Poder Judicial del Estado de Querétaro has issued 173 AI-assisted court rulings, 70 in family law and 103 civil, under in-house rules for ethical, secure use. Presiding magistrate Braulio Guerra Urbiola says the judicial AI speeds some procedures by up to 60 per cent, but judges decide. That figure is the court's own; nobody outside has evaluated it.
Microsoft (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — Costa Rica leads Latin America and the Caribbean in generative AI adoption: 29.7% of 15-to-64-year-olds, per Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion Report for Q2 2026, up from 28.5%. The nation ranks 32nd globally, beating the 18.8% world figure plus Colombia (25.9%), Panama (24.2%), Mexico (21.4%) and Brazil (20.2%) on AI usage.
Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN) — El Salvador's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has formalised SIMACC, a climate monitoring platform in force since 7 September that pools geo-environmental records from public bodies and local governments. The ministerial agreement permits automated analysis, predictive modelling and AI on environmental data, with outputs serving only as technical input for officials' decisions.
Ministério da Fazenda — Brazil's Ministry of Finance already runs AI to detect illegal betting sites, linking gambling pages with the payment channels behind those pages. Finance Minister Dario Durigan unveiled the plan on 25 September with the Federal Revenue Service, the Federal Police and watchdog Anatel, after a provisional measure outlawed betting operators. Platforms still live from 6 October face blocking in this gambling enforcement drive.
St. Maarten Entrepreneurship Development Center (SEDC) — The St. Maarten Entrepreneurship Development Center (SEDC), through the Ministry of TEATT, launched AI for Small Business, a four-week AI training programme for up to 20 micro, small and medium enterprise owners, running from October 19 to November 16, 2026. Participants start by mapping where AI suits their firm, then produce a working AI-powered workflow, an AI growth strategy, an AI policy and a personalised 90-day implementation roadmap. Teaching on data protection, privacy and responsible AI use is included in the AI skills course, which TWO funds under the E6 Country Package managed by RVO.
Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador — The Legislative Assembly passed, by 57 votes, an El Salvador AI regulation giving the National Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Similar Technologies Projects led or coordinated by the National Artificial Intelligence Agency (ANIA) a separate purchasing regime. Declared of public utility, those projects can buy anything from works and licences to data, models, compute and infrastructure under AI procurement rules set apart from the Public Procurement Law.
Social Insurance Bank (SVB) of Curaçao — Curaçao's Social Insurance Bank (SVB) applies AI healthcare fraud detection to flag incorrect, unnecessary or illegitimate billing. Analysts and inspectors verify flagged cases via site checks and patient interviews, pairing automated anomaly detection in medical billing with human review rather than automation alone.
Sebrae — Sebrae has built an AI business-planning assistant on Google's Gemini into PNBOX+, free on the Sebrae Portal since 23 September. The conversational agent guides Brazil's entrepreneurs through a plan, clarifies management ideas and poses questions; technical director Bruno Quick stressed that the tool backs owners rather than drafting plans. PNBOX+ logged over 167,000 consultations, almost 18,000 active users and more than 200,000 plans in 2026.
Codelco — Chile's Codelco opened 5,500 Microsoft 365 Copilot licences for generative AI at work across divisions and head office, via an MoU with Microsoft. Training, change management, security safeguards and 600 'digital promoters', chosen from 900 sign-ups in three days, back the AI productivity rollout; agents aid procurement, legal and sustainability.
Superintendencia de Seguridad Social (Suseso) — Chile's Superintendencia de Seguridad Social (Suseso) has rolled out VigIA for medical leave oversight, blending deterministic rules, threshold analysis plus machine learning, flagging odd patterns and warning signs nationwide. Over 200 probes into possible irregularities in sick-leave certificates opened via it during 2026. The Universidad de Chile's Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (FCFM) co-developed it over 19 months; academic Richard Weber led the prototype consultancy.
Municipalidad de Los Ángeles — The Municipalidad de Los Ángeles is Biobío's first council on REVI, AI for building permits that backers say trims handling time 30% to 35%. Its Dirección de Obras Municipales staff started using it in September. The Cámara Chilena de la Construcción produced REVI via Google; the city enters a 12-council permit processing network counting Providencia, Maipú, Renca, Viña del Mar and Puerto Montt.
Walmart de México — Walmart de México has put Sparky, a free AI shopping assistant, inside its official app for supermarket orders. Shoppers type a need in plain words, say groceries for an in-laws' visit, and this virtual grocery helper proposes a basket they can drop into the cart with one tap.
Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) — Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) has put ChatVote, an in-house AI voter assistant, on the TSE Portal homepage and the e-Título app. Voters can ask in plain language about the 2026 elections: polling day, hours and locations, excusing a missed vote, poll-worker duties and election resolutions. Bought-in chatbots served since 2020; this election chatbot is the first built by the court itself. Answer ratings, WhatsApp access and voice trials come next.
Seara (JBS) — Seara, part of JBS, has put the uMov.me AI delivery assistant Mari on routes worked by 300 drivers, 2,000 vehicles and 20 distribution centres that handle about 500,000 drops monthly. Drivers speak to Mari through WhatsApp voice notes; the tool tracks each truck using existing company data and alerts sales and back-office teams. Seara wants this route-tracking AI to push successful deliveries to 98.5%.
Prefeitura de Senhor do Bonfim — Senhor do Bonfim, Bahia, is readying BIA (Bonfim Inteligência Artificial), an AI tax assistant serving the Municipal Department of Finance and Budget. Residents will request IPTU, TFF and TLL bills, arrears lookups, payment slips, statements and certificates by message, voice note, call, video call or snapshot of paperwork. Web chat and council channels will host the municipal taxpayer chatbot.
Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador — The Legislative Assembly has designated national AI, robotics and allied tech ventures as public-utility works, reshaping El Salvador AI regulation. The National AI Agency (ANIA) picks qualifying schemes and, in defined cases such as expertise unavailable locally or a sole supplier, may buy directly, skipping the public procurement law, with suitability, capability and cost on file. Economy Minister María Luisa Hayem tabled these AI procurement rules for the President.
Prefeitura de Fortaleza — Fortaleza is tracking roughly 5,000 residents with hypertension or diabetes at three municipal clinics through IAra, a WhatsApp AI care assistant inside the Saúde que Cuida Digital bundle for the SUS. Enrolment goals sit at 20,000 by the end of 2026 and 200,000 by the end of 2027 for this chronic-disease follow-up tool. Alongside came the Saúde na Palma da Mão app plus booking confirmation over WhatsApp.
Infocentro and Cantv — Medical students, physicians and nursing staff at Isla de Coche's Centro de Diagnóstico Integral Haydée Suárez gained an AI training for healthcare workers on 22 September 2026, organised by Fundación Infocentro alongside Cantv. Instructors walked through AI's origins, natural language processing and prompt-writing tactics, then guided attendees through practical drills on Gemini. Nueva Esparta's session aimed to sharpen digital fluency for both treatment-related and office-based responsibilities, reflecting wider AI skills for medical staff efforts in Venezuela.
St. Kitts-Nevis National Carnival Committee (SKNNCC) — The St. Kitts-Nevis National Carnival Committee (SKNNCC) limits AI in carnival competitions, capping AI-generated creative content at 20 percent across Soca Monarch, Road March and Calypso Monarch. Fully AI-generated songs and cloned vocals are banned; AI-assisted technology is permitted. AI rules cover Junior and Senior Calypso Monarch contests.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Uruguay reached 25.7% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 1.1 points above 24.6% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Jamaica reached 25.0% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 1.0 points above 24.0% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Panama reached 24.2% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 0.9 points above 23.3% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Mexico reached 21.4% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 1.3 points above 20.1% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Peru reached 17.3% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 0.9 points above 16.4% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Honduras reached 14.5% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 0.5 points above 14.0% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Paraguay reached 12.6% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 0.4 points above 12.2% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Nicaragua reached 12.5% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 0.7 points above 11.8% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Guyana reached 11.3% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 1.0 points above 10.3% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount. Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela share identical figures.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Suriname reached 11.3% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 1.0 points above 10.3% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount. Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela share identical figures.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Venezuela reached 11.3% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 1.0 points above 10.3% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount. Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela share identical figures.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Haiti reached 8.9% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 0.4 points above 8.5% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount.
Edelman Trust Institute — 33% of people surveyed in Mexico turn to AI for health advice or decisions, the Edelman Trust Barometer 2026 Special Report: Trust and Health shows. Among health AI users, 83% want sleep, exercise or diet tips and 77% get test results explained. Confidence in finding health answers fell to 58%, 13 points below 2025; doctors remain most trusted at 83%.
Governo de Goiás / Corpo de Bombeiros Militar de Goiás — Goiás has activated the Sistema Integrado de Monitoramento e Alertas de Goiás, an AI wildfire detection platform flagging probable forest-fire hotspots from satellite imagery. Officials claim two to four hours saved in operational response; several specialists previously sifted those pictures manually. AutomaGo IA co-built it. Satellite fire monitoring gains here carry no independent evaluation.
Assaí Atacadista — Assaí's internal auditors now use Auditus, a generative AI audit agent Vivo assembled on Microsoft Copilot Studio following an isolated proof of concept. Auditus interprets documents, checks replies against company policy and proposes technical lines of enquiry inside Teams, SharePoint, Word and Copilot Chat. Vivo pitches the co-pilot for auditors as backing judgement calls and trimming routine analysis.
Prefeitura de Salgueiro — Salgueiro, in Pernambuco, now answers residents on WhatsApp through SIA, a municipal AI assistant wired into the 1Doc service centre. Questions on public services, tax, urban licensing and the Municipal Ombudsman get replies at any hour, by text or voice note. The round-the-clock council chatbot passes specialist requests through 1Doc to the relevant department.
Mosaic Insurance — Mosaic Insurance has switched on Halo, AI underwriting for SMEs quoting, binding and issuing eligible policies in minutes. Submissions arrive auto-structured and enriched; tricky risks go to a human underwriter. North American wholesale brokers get this automated small-business underwriting first, starting with SME cyber.
Government of Ecuador — Ecuador's government will install Edge, AI border surveillance from the United Arab Emirates, on the Colombia and Peru frontiers, President Daniel Noboa said. Edge should spot illicit activity, odd movements and cargo tampering; Noboa judged the technology better value than 50,000 soldiers. No price or schedule for the frontier monitoring AI has been given.
Tribunal de Contas do Estado da Paraíba (TCE-PB) — Tribunal de Contas do Estado da Paraíba has switched on Seixas, an AI for public-accounts auditing. Built jointly with Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, the system fields ordinary queries and hands back the exact wording underpinning every reply, sweeping 8.78 terabytes: 212,362 audit reports, 69,809 decisions, 16,443,401 other procedural acts. Automated drafting arrives at phase two.
Biogas plant at General Villegas, Buenos Aires province (system by AutoLink Solutions) — A biogas plant at General Villegas in Buenos Aires province now lets DIOXI run engines, pumps, the generator and digester loading — AI process control for biogas its builders call a first for Argentina. Sebastián Cuenca and Eduardo Espíndola, of AutoLink Solutions, worked on the system over eighteen months; the switch came three weeks before publication. Output stays constant at 1200 kW hourly. No outside party has tested the AI-run control claim.
Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador — Ecuador AI regulation has stalled: the Asamblea Nacional voted 88 in plenary to archive the Ley Orgánica de Regulación y Promoción de la Inteligencia Artificial. Its text would have created duties around specialist hiring, technical infrastructure, data systems, staff training and supervisory machinery. Members shelving the AI law blamed implementation difficulty and clashes with statutes already in force.
National Assembly of Belize — Belize's National Assembly sent Acting Deputy Clerk Manuel Grant and Parliamentary Officer I Tiarrah Bedran to AI training for parliament staff: the 'Applying AI and Digital Solutions to Modernize Parliamentary Practice' workshop, 12–13 September, Florida International University. Caribbean officials explored parliamentary AI skills for law-making, records and public access to House information.
Prefeitura de Maringá — Prefeitura de Maringá has opened Mari, an AI assistant for council services reachable on WhatsApp. Residents describe a need in ordinary words and get guidance shaped to them, rather than learning how the city hall is organised. Instituto de Projetos Avançados para Cidades, Tecnologia e Administração and Secretaria Municipal de Logística e Compras run the chatbot within Maringá + Digital.
ETV — ETV has fronted its bulletins with AI news presenters for over a week, adding on-screen captions that tell viewers which footage a machine made or altered. Cindy Martin delivers Guadeloupe bulletins and flashes; Jean Louis handles Caribbean coverage. Clips carry the caption "IA — GÉNÉRÉ PAR IA". Synthetic anchors also compress the production chain, which the broadcaster credits for six different editions daily.
Senado de la República Dominicana — Dominican Republic AI regulation now moves forward as one bill after the Senate Commission on Higher Education, Science and Technology folded two rival drafts together, citing heavy overlap. Commissioners combined the Ethical and Safe Use of Artificial Intelligence bill with a separate AI policy guidelines proposal into one framework spanning design, deployment and oversight across all sectors. The goal: a single, efficient consolidated AI legislation text, not two competing measures.
Municipality of Asunción (911 System) — Paraguay's government is rolling out an AI-powered 911 emergency system in Asunción, backed by a USD 10 million project from South Korea's KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency). It covers intelligent video surveillance and a unified monitoring platform, running through 2030 as part of a wider Public Safety Master Plan for the capital. Officials frame the AI emergency response system as a way to sharpen how quickly calls get answered.
Poder Judicial del Estado de México (PJEM) — The State of Mexico's judiciary (PJEM) will launch a home-built court AI platform in December, beginning with labour cases, to find statutes, judicial criteria and precedents, Superior Court of Justice president Héctor Macedo García said. Controls and new rules will attach responsibilities and sanctions to misuse of the legal research tool. Macedo García called a ruling resting directly on AI a possible "ethical fraud" that would bring in the Disciplinary Tribunal.
House of Assembly of the Virgin Islands — The House of Assembly of the Virgin Islands sent Executive Officer Theresa Penn and Hansard Editor Damian McGowan to AI training for parliament staff: 'Applying AI and Digital Solutions to Modernise Parliamentary Practice', at Florida International University in Miami on 12–13 September. Some 30 Caribbean clerks, Hansard, IT and communications officers took part in the parliamentary AI skills sessions, run by the House Democracy Partnership of the US House of Representatives with ParlAmericas and the POPVOX Foundation.
Unidade de Pronto Atendimento 24h de Rondonópolis — Unidade de Pronto Atendimento 24h de Rondonópolis has begun scanning with a machine carrying AI ultrasound diagnostics, bought by the municipality for about R$278,000 of its own money. Onboard intelligence shortens waits for results in severe and emergency presentations, and echocardiography joins the unit's procedure list for the first time. AI-assisted imaging here has had no published independent evaluation.
Universidad Nacional de La Plata (PROLAB) — Universidad Nacional de La Plata has opened Nodos de Empleo, free AI job matching run by its PROLAB careers service. Advanced algorithms weigh each professional profile against vacancies employers post, linking jobseekers, graduates, firms and community bodies without an intermediary. Talentia furnished the technology; PROLAB lent reach and local standing. Any organisation may raise a node, paying nothing to build one.
Mercado Pago — Mercado Pago, the digital account of Mercado Libre, has brought Mago to Chile — AI in personal banking that settles routine money chores by conversation: spending, transfers, bills, benefits. Speech, typing or a shared photo all serve as input, and nothing executes before the user confirms. Conversational finance totals over two million exchanges, near 224,000 monthly.
Government of Peru (Law 31814 regulation) — Law 31814's regulation reached its first compliance deadline, turning Peru AI regulation from promise into enforceable obligation. Anyone developing or deploying AI systems in health, education, justice, security, or economy and finance now answers for them legally under the AI law.
Superintendencia Nacional de los Registros Públicos (Sunarp) — Peru's national public registry authority, Sunarp, has approved an AI policy for public registries by resolution dated 4 September, holding every AI tool to human supervision, accountability, transparency, reliability, security, data protection and non-discrimination. Public registrars keep their judgement, responsibility and answerability for registry decisions, and Sunarp already runs JULIO, an in-house AI platform with modules for registry resolutions and binding precedents.
Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay (BHU) — Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay (BHU) is screening 2026 administrative internship candidates through AI job interviews on the MeetPIA platform. The eliminatory video interviews run about 45 minutes without pauses between 11 and 15 September, scoring up to 30 points with 15 needed to pass. MeetPIA chief executive Martín Liguori says the system assesses and suggests while a person always decides.
Government of the Dominican Republic / Instituto Tecnológico de Las Américas (ITLA) — The Dominican Republic has opened RD Inteligente, free national AI literacy for a million citizens, launched by President Luis Abinader at the National Palace and run through Instituto Tecnológico de Las Américas. Formally the Programa Nacional de Alfabetización en Inteligencia Artificial, the scheme is pitched as technological and social development. Its first wave reaches school and university learners, young jobseekers, founders and civil servants; population-scale AI skilling widens later to teachers, uniformed forces, smaller companies and parents.
Banco de México (Banxico) — Banco de México (Banxico) puts business AI adoption at 48.5% among Mexico's companies with over 100 employees in June 2026, against 24.3% in September 2025. The Monthly Survey of Regional Economic Activity (EMAER) shows 51.2% in the centre, 46.2% in the south and 45.8% in the north. Firms expecting corporate AI use within three years total 64.8%; 67.5% saw no significant employment change over the past three.
Codelco — Iván Tobar, corporate maintenance manager at Codelco, Chile's state copper company, told a University of Santiago audience on 8 September AI in copper mining lifted production 40% and mineral recovery over 15% as technology use grew. The report does not identify the operations or period behind the figures, and no independent evaluation is published.
Ministerio de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología de El Salvador — El Salvador's education minister, Karla Trigueros, says 171 pilot public schools outscored the national average in science, mathematics and reading, performing on a par with Germany and Sweden, crediting AI tutoring in schools, teacher training, learning monitoring and technology. OECD's PISA for Schools assessed 1,198 students in June 2026; the schools, selected for internet access and infrastructure instead of past results, do not represent the national system, whose PISA 2025 results differed. Extension to all public schools within 18 months is planned, though no independent evaluation has isolated the AI tutors' effect.
OECD (PISA 2025) — The OECD's PISA 2025 results show 47% of Mexican 15-year-olds use AI chatbots for learning at least weekly, against 46% across the OECD. They exceed the OECD average for drafting schoolwork (35% against 29%), summarising texts (34% against 30%) and first research on a new topic (40% against 31%). Pupils avoiding AI for some tasks scored about 20 points higher in science, though the OECD says this does not prove AI weakens results.
Mosaic Insurance — Mosaic Insurance has stood up an in-house AI Lab, pairing four engineers with business teams so AI in underwriting stops stalling at pilot stage and reaches daily work. Capability ships across claims, finance and operations, engineers sitting beside colleagues to spot problems and push fixes live. Machine-assisted risk assessment shapes how the insurer reserves and decides, by its own account.
Oficina Nacional del Servicio Civil (ONSC) — Six courses and a diploma spanning three complexity tiers make up new AI training for civil servants, unveiled by Uruguay's National Civil Service Office. Teaching duties fall jointly to the National School of Public Administration and the Technological University, kicking off late October 2026 with no limit on basic-tier enrolment. This step advances public administration AI skills development nationwide.
Centro México Digital (CMD) — Centro México Digital (CMD) puts AI in financial services at 8.4% of Mexico's finance and insurance firms with ten or more staff, just above the 8% all-sector average. Built on INEGI's 2024 Economic Census, 'México Inteligente' shows uptake of AI in finance ranging from 31.1% at commercial banks and 27% at insurers and surety firms to 3.9% at retirement-fund administrators.
Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas (ICD) — Costa Rica's Institute on Drugs (ICD) imposed a total, immediate AI ban on processing its own data, inputs or information, through circular CIRCULAR-ICD-DG-016-2026 issued on 28 August by director general Jorge Torres. It revokes an April 2025 directive permitting regulated use, as Torres cites a social and national-security duty to guard its information.
OECD PISA 2025 — The OECD's PISA 2025 results show half of Dominican 15-year-olds (50%) use AI chatbots for learning at least weekly. Preliminary research on a new topic (44%), summarising assigned reading (40%) and drafting schoolwork (36%) lead, while only 9% never or almost never use chatbots for any school tasks PISA asked about.
Municipalidad de Santiago de Surco — The Municipality of Santiago de Surco in Lima has introduced Norma, a generative AI municipal agent answering residents day and night on local taxes, procedures, services, activities and the cultural agenda, using only official information from the municipality's database. Residents reach the virtual agent via WhatsApp or the municipal website, and Surco is reportedly Peru's first municipality with an AI virtual agent.
Government of Sint Maarten — The Government of Sint Maarten is bringing an AI-supported HR system to its public sector, built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 to modernise how the civil service manages personnel records. Governor Ajamu Baly revealed the electronic human-resource management (e-HRM) initiative while opening the 2026-2027 Parliamentary Year, framing it as a move from scattered paper files toward one integrated database powered by data-driven human resource management tools.
OECD (PISA 2025) — The OECD's PISA 2025 results show 46% of students consult AI chatbots at least once a week. Such frequent student AI use was captured by the assessment's learning questions.
Cámara de Industrias de Costa Rica (CICR) — The Costa Rican Chamber of Industries (CICR) finds, asking for the first time in its annual competitiveness survey, that 53% of manufacturers run some AI system or software. AI adoption in manufacturing hits 71.4% in free-trade zones versus 47.1% under the definitive regime, and 60.6% of large definitive-regime firms versus 38.9% of small and medium ones. Administration and business management (54.1%) and marketing or sales (52.5%) lead the uses, and 95.1% of AI users report no headcount change as a result.
Procuración General de la Nación (Ministerio Público Fiscal) — Argentina's Attorney General signed Resolution PGN 64/26 on 4 September, setting AI rules for prosecutors and staff across the national Public Prosecutor's Office. Reserved information, live-case material and personal or sensitive data stay out of public AI tools such as ChatGPT until individual use is regulated, while permanent practical AI training and secure in-house tools are ordered. An internal survey beforehand found 90.4% of staff wanted a full training plan.
Grupo Financiero Inbursa — Grupo Financiero Inbursa, among Mexico's largest financial institutions, has rolled Harvey's legal AI out across its legal team. Inbursa's litigators use it for thousands of yearly regulatory and court notices, litigation analysis and oral-hearing preparation, and Harvey says this AI for lawyers will cover contract review, regulatory analysis and M&A due diligence as use spreads.
Colmena66 (Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust) — Colmena66, the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust's entrepreneurship programme, finds AI adoption among entrepreneurs at 53.7%, with 19.3% more planning to follow, in its State of the Business Community 2025 report, presented at the Boricua Emprende Fest on 4 September. Business AI use centres on innovation, process automation, and marketing and data analysis. It rests on a convenience sample of 555 entrepreneurs gathered from September 2025 to May 2026, so it does not represent all Puerto Rican entrepreneurs.
Tribunal Supremo de Justicia — Bolivia's Tribunal Supremo de Justicia is piloting AI assistants for judges and litigants together with a digital case file, court president Romer Saucedo confirmed. Paper case files still dominate the courts and, in Saucedo's account, invite bribes for sight of a file or a photocopy, whereas an online file would reach a citizen by mobile phone. AI in the courts arrives at a judiciary living on roughly 0.35% of the national budget and pressing for 5%.
Government of El Salvador — El Salvador's AI tutoring in schools has already spread past 1,000 campuses, President Nayib Bukele said, pledging coverage of every state school within 18 months. His statement accompanied published findings from a pilot across 171 public schools. Machine tutoring runs beside ordinary classroom teaching. The expansion figures are the government's own.
Cámara de Industrias de Costa Rica (CICR) — Costa Rica's manufacturers register almost no AI employment impact on staffing: 95.1% of businesses running artificial intelligence reported headcount unmoved, the Cámara de Industrias de Costa Rica found. Its Encuesta anual Perspectivas Empresariales y Valoración de Factores de Competitividad de la Industria Manufacturera, 2026 puts uptake at 53%, climbing past 71.4% inside free-trade zones. Hours, pay and task mix escaped measurement.
Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, St Vincent and the Grenadines / IMF — The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning organised AI training for public finance officials with the International Monetary Fund: 'Adapting Public Financial Management for AI: Harnessing Digital-by-Design', a Monday-to-Friday regional workshop from 7 September. Officials and IT practitioners from small island developing states met in St Vincent and the Grenadines; the IMF's Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC) joined the fiscal AI skills sessions.
Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE) — The National Statistics Office (ONE) puts business AI adoption at 35.0% of internet-connected formal firms in the National Survey of Economic Activity (ENAE) 2025. Corporate AI use peaks at 52.0% among employers of 250-plus staff, against 46.1% at firms of 50 to 99.
Hospital Dr. Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (CCSS) — Hospital Dr. Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, run by Costa Rica's social security fund (CCSS), has added three AI ultrasound machines to its radiology and medical imaging service. They track breast lesions live and advise the doctor on how suspicious findings are, help identify and classify thyroid lesions, and estimate liver fat percentage and elasticity. Each costs USD 67,000, part of a renewal replacing the service's seven older scanners, which see about 950 patients a month.
Poder Judicial del Estado de México — The State of Mexico's judiciary has run 1,401 court rulings through an AI tool producing plain-language rulings for citizens, Governor Delfina Gómez told its first 2025–2026 annual report in Texcoco. It belongs to the court's 'internet of rulings', alongside an electronic court platform the governor says has served over 170,000 users.
Senate of Paraguay — A draft law before Paraguay's Senate from Senator Lizarella Valiente introduces AI-generated content identification for synthetic images, voices and videos altered using artificial intelligence. It defines 'digital imitation', binds platforms to new duties, and adds synthetic media detection safeguards against unauthorised use of someone's likeness. Debate is pending.
Fundacite Anzoátegui and Fundabit — Guanta municipal staff received local government AI training from Fundacite Anzoátegui and Fundabit, learning core concepts, tools and prompt writing to lift service quality. A 10 September follow-up adds image generation, media production and web design, extending this municipal AI capacity-building drive, 'Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada a la Gestión Pública'.
Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) — The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) was due to begin AI support for judicial work the following Monday, after the full bench decided to assist justices this way. Justice Loretta Ortiz Ahlf confirmed it in Guadalajara and objected, wanting court AI rules settled first.
Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Feira de Santana — Feira de Santana's municipal health department launched Cuidado em dIA on 2 September, an AI clinical decision support platform from startup Volts helping the city's doctors weigh clinical data for diagnoses, treatment and referrals. The decision aid was presented to network doctors and nurses; final clinical decisions stay with professionals.
Brazilian Ministry of Health — Brazil's Ministry of Health has unveiled, at the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo's medical school, a command centre for the SUS's intelligent ICUs, offering live AI ICU monitoring of vital signs in six hospitals in Manaus, Recife, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre. The network has 60 active smart beds under round-the-clock watch, and the ministry aims for 280 in 14 institutions. Health minister Alexandre Padilha described it as genuine artificial intelligence working inside the public system.
Gobierno de la Provincia de Santa Fe — Santa Fe's provincial government opened Penitentiary Unit No. 9 in Recreo, 891-place prison with AI prison surveillance and facial recognition to spot wanted people, visitors and potential risks. Voice identification recognises detainees and approved callers and ends any call automatically if someone else speaks. Governor Maximiliano Pullaro likened it to Lince, Rosario's AI camera system, and called it the country's most technologically secure prison.
Panamá Conecta / Centro de Atención Ciudadana 311 — Panamá Conecta, the Panamanian government's single public-services portal, now has an AI government chatbot for fast reports to the 311 Citizen Attention Centre. The 311 platform also offers live chat with a contact-centre agent.
Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (MITIC) — Nearly 2,000 people signed up for MITIC's free AI for legal drafting courses in Paraguay, via its Cursos PY portal. Two virtual programmes drew 1,993 enrolments combined: "Abogados Tecnológicos y Derecho Tecnológico aplicado al Estado Paraguayo" and a separate course on "Utilización de herramientas de inteligencia artificial para la redacción de normativas legales." Both award certificates, reflecting demand for AI in legal regulation drafting among lawyers.
Ministry of Education — Trinidad and Tobago's education ministry launched an AI learning platform for secondary students, centred on an interactive AI avatar that walks pupils through problems step by step. Spanish, ICT, integrated science, social sciences, English language arts and mathematics are covered, rolling out term by term, with laptops for Form Two teachers of those subjects. Education minister Michael Dowlath says one more explanation often separates a student who cannot do something from one who understands.
University of the Virgin Islands — University of the Virgin Islands' Board of Trustees has unanimously adopted an AI governance policy for higher education, giving faculty, staff and students shared ethical-use guidance. A joint committee from all three groups wrote the rules on AI honesty in coursework, leaving departments a base for their own procedures.
Royal Saint Lucia Police Force — Taiwan hosted Royal Saint Lucia Police Force officers for 2026 workshops on cybercrime prevention, cross-border policing and AI literacy training for law enforcement. Ambassador Nicole Su said the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) partnership has shifted from equipment gifts to artificial intelligence skills-building for officers abroad.
Tribunal Superior Eleitoral — Brazil's superior electoral court voted 5-2 to define a political-ad deepfake as synthetic content made or altered by AI or similar technology, that convincingly creates, copies or changes a living, dead or fictional person's image, voice or speech. These political deepfake rules govern campaign material before the 4 October elections, including the roughly 1,000 political advertisements broadcasters must carry daily. The same ruling spared Senator Flávio Bolsonaro penalties over AI-generated images of his imprisoned father, because the party convention that showed them counted as a private event, outside public advertising.
B3 — B3, Brazil's stock exchange, made Anysphere's Cursor its official AI coding assistant for engineering, widening it to about 600 employees after active developers grew from 34 to 154 between May and July. Luiza Sangalli, B3's superintendent of artificial intelligence, says application delivery time fell by about 35%, and the exchange now accepts roughly 1.5 million lines of AI-assisted code a month. Human review, testing and security checks still apply, and no independent measurement of the 35% figure has been published.
Conselho Nacional de Educação — Brazil's National Education Council (CNE) has approved national AI guidelines for schools and universities that ban AI essay marking: no AI may correct, evaluate or suggest grades for essays or written exams at any level. Children in early-years education and primary school's first five years must not use AI tools without supervision, an AI detector's result cannot alone justify punishment, and automated grading cannot solely decide grades or progression. Bans apply on publication in the official gazette; institutions get 12 months for the rest.
Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador — Assemblywoman Cecilia Baltazar tabled the Proyecto de Ley Orgánica para el Desarrollo, Uso Ético y Gobernanza de la Inteligencia Artificial before the National Assembly. The Ecuador AI regulation proposal sets risk tiers, governance structures, innovation incentives and sanctions when AI systems misuse personal data, and amends the Código Orgánico Integral Penal. This AI legislation is at an early stage; the Assembly archived an earlier AI bill on 15 September 2026.
Grupo Aval — Grupo Aval has moved over 36 AI agents in banking into production in 18 months via ADL Digital Lab and its RE initiative, handling digital-channel data management and conversion for over three million Colombians. Technology vice-president Ernesto Gutiérrez gave the figures; Lulo Bank described AI spanning decision-making, risk management, operational efficiency and customer interaction.
Red de Integridad y Estado Abierto / ECLAC — Chile's Red de Integridad y Estado Abierto and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean are forming a network for independent public-sector AI oversight. Public institutions will first register the AI systems they run and self-assess against ECLAC's standard, before verification and oversight; the Comptroller General alone keeps audit powers, and algorithmic transparency leads the agenda.
Endeavor Data Unit / Xertica.ai — Endeavor's data unit, backed by Xertica.ai, finds in its Colombia AI Pulse study that 61% of Colombian companies call AI a strategic priority, yet only 37.7% have made it a significant part of daily operations. On AI adoption in Colombia, 82% already see measurable impact and 72% raised AI budgets last year; the country scores 45.6 of 100 on the AI Sophistication Index, near Mexico's 45.1.
Gobierno del Estado de Tamaulipas — The Tamaulipas state government will turn AVi-T into an AI citizen assistant answering questions on WhatsApp and a web portal about vehicle-tax payments, birth certificates and the right office for each procedure, from vetted institutional information. Edwin Tuexi Amaro, who heads the new Secretariat of Innovation and Digital Intelligence, says the virtual assistant goes live right after the governor's launch within weeks, making citizen-service staff more efficient without cutting headcount.
Fuerzas Armadas de Paraguay — Paraguay's armed forces and the National Emergency Secretariat have launched Operation Arapochy to prepare for El Niño flooding on the Paraguay River, using AI flood planning from an in-house AI agent. It blends live weather and hydrological feeds from open sources such as NOAA and Windy with historical climate models, and military simulations put the flood peak between November and December, so preventive evacuations can start in October. Planning covers up to 100,000 affected families.
Secretaría de Planificación y Programación de la Presidencia (SEGEPLAN) — Guatemala's SEGEPLAN now runs Copiloto SNP, offline AI in public sector planning that verifies and enters National Planning System data. No internet means no token charges, so officials handle sensitive files directly. It also unifies quantitative and qualitative report variables, trimming duplicated effort as agencies adopt AI for government administration.
Eastern Caribbean Central Bank — The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank has run a third Generative AI and Python Summer Camp across the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, backed by the Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund, ending with a regional showcase of 12 chatbot projects and six multimedia pieces. The four-week camps, building AI skills for young people aged 14 to 18, began around 6 July and now include work placements at real organisations and businesses. Eleven interns joined these youth AI camps: six from Saint Christopher and Nevis, two from Saint Lucia and three from Antigua and Barbuda.
Dirección General de Aduanas (DGA) — The Dominican Republic's General Directorate of Customs (DGA) will add AI X-ray cargo inspection, with an advanced model reading non-intrusive scan images together to flag risk patterns, possible inconsistencies and items needing specialist review. Director general Nelson Arroyo told an Association of Industries of the Dominican Republic meeting that headquarters also wants live oversight of X-ray operators at ports and AI in its risk-management engine for sharper cargo profiling.
Gobierno de la Provincia del Chaco — Governor Leandro Zdero of Argentina's Chaco province signed Law 4250-J, an AI deepfake law, on 26 August, putting manipulated or synthetic digital content and bogus social-media profiles into the misdemeanours code. Doing so without informed consent risks up to 60 days' arrest or fines up to 15 minimum salaries, 90 days or 18 if shared; plainly artistic work, parody and public-interest criticism that cannot pass as real are exempt.
Prefeitura de Florianópolis — Florianópolis city council has launched 'Tia', a WhatsApp generative-AI assistant for over 600 municipal services, from tax and health guidance to business licensing and company registration. Softplan built the round-the-clock, multilingual AI government chatbot, which reads text and images and passes users to staff; the council calls it the first generative-AI public-service assistant in a Brazilian state capital.
Similarweb — Similarweb data shows AI-referred traffic to Latin American banks rising sharply between January and July 2026, from +128% in Mexico to +294% in Peru and Argentina. Santander Argentina saw the region's biggest jump; AI assistants otherwise sent most visitors to BCP in Peru, Bancolombia in Colombia, BancoEstado in Chile and Banamex in Mexico.
BBVA — BBVA's Brújula, an AI sales assistant for bankers built by its South American teams, helps corporate and institutional relationship managers in Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and Uruguay rank opportunities, prep meetings, log client visits and draft financing proposals. Each interaction feeds the next client conversation, and the manager keeps professional judgement and accountability for decisions and the portfolio.
Aduana Nacional de Bolivia — Bolivia's Aduana Nacional has launched AranBUS, AI customs classification running on natural language processing to speed dispatches and cut misclassification of goods. A basic level answers quick, exact queries; an advanced level reads synonyms and dense technical context for operators and the wider public. The AI tariff search came bundled with RecaudoMETRO, posting key tax collection openly every seven minutes, and the Mi Aduana app for entrepreneurs, operators and travellers. Executive president Alberto Soto de la Vía called it a customs service that is modern, efficient and fully transparent.
UNESCO, OPP and Congreso de Intendentes — Uruguay's Office of Planning and Budget, the Congress of Intendentes and UNESCO have signed a first-of-its-kind accord bringing AI training in government to officials across all 19 departmental administrations. Four representatives from each intendency will start the programme, then move toward building practical tools for management challenges. It is UNESCO's first such agreement with the country, aimed at strengthening public-sector AI adoption locally.
Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (SCBA) — The Supreme Court of Buenos Aires Province (SCBA) put draft rules on AI in the courts out for comment under Resolution 1719/26. Machines could not decide cases, assess proof or write a ruling's reasoning, and systems would be risk-graded. Comment closed 7 August 2026; this judicial AI regulation binds nobody until adopted.
Banco Azteca — Banco Azteca, among Mexico's biggest financial institutions, has shifted its automation onto UiPath's Maestro platform, using agentic AI in banking to coordinate people, AI agents and systems across entire business processes. More than 300 production automations span customer service, HR, procurement, legal, fraud prevention and compliance, plus over 8,800 automated processes UiPath equates to more than 3,300 full-time employees' work, unverified by any independent evaluation.
Ministerio de Educación de Bolivia — Bolivia's government has opened 5,000 Google Career Launchpad places, plus 100 for tutor teachers, in AI skills training launched by President Rodrigo Paz. Applicants aged 18 and over — students, entrepreneurs, young people at large — get six months of free Google Skills study spanning artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data analysis, cloud computing and other emerging fields. Holders take 50% off official Google Cloud certification exams; Paz cast the digital training push as the way to close a technology gap, citing possible pay rises of 15% to 25%.
Confederação da Agricultura e Pecuária do Brasil (CNA) — Brazil's Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA) has launched JoIA, a free AI farm adviser on WhatsApp that technical director Bruno Lucchi says will serve as a technical consultant helping rural producers run their farms. Drawing on the CNA's Campo Futuro figures for input prices and production costs, the WhatsApp assistant lets producers compare themselves regionally and raise financing and debt questions, routing technical ones to Senar courses and training material.
SONDA — SONDA's Tech Trends study puts some degree of AI adoption among Chilean companies at 88%, up from 16% in its previous edition. Of those, 40% are exploring or piloting, 30% apply it to some processes, 13% treat it as a strategic pillar and 5% have woven it through the whole operation. SONDA Chile general manager Javier Larenas warns of pilots that never scale; 53% have only general AI guidelines, and the sample size is unpublished.
Tocumen International Airport — Tocumen International Airport's rebuilt digital platform features Tocumín, an AI airport assistant that tells a traveller at gate 115 how long the walk to gate 205 takes and the route, alongside retail, parking, connection and flight details. Tocumen S.A.'s in-house team built the wayfinding assistant in about 18 months; biometric access to travel information is due in 2027. The airport handled 13.7 million passengers from January to July 2026, 15 per cent up on a year earlier.
Digicel — Digicel's AI customer care assistant Ruby has handled 55% of more than 535,000 conversations in Jamaica without a human agent, the telecoms group's 2026 Sustainability Report says. Built on Canadian firm Ada's platform, the virtual assistant takes routine jobs such as bill payment, plan activation and balance checks across voice, web, WhatsApp and the MyDigicel app, supporting care teams without replacing them, says Digicel.
Conselho Nacional de Justiça / Tribunal Regional Federal da 3ª Região — Brazil's National Council of Justice has added LIA3R, generative AI for courts built by judges and staff of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region, to its Conecta programme, opening it to every court nationwide. The judge-built AI condenses long filings, handles specialised legal research and writes decisions, dispatches and case summaries, with about 1.55 million documents summarised across 106,000 cases and roughly 100,000 interactions a month, the court says. It launched at the sixth FestLabs in Cuiabá.
Equipos Consultores — Equipos Consultores finds half of Uruguay's adults have never used AI tools; a quarter are daily or fairly frequent users and the rest occasionally. AI use in Uruguay tracks education: almost nine in ten university graduates have tried it, but eight in ten people with only primary schooling never have. The survey of 705 adults on AI habits ran from 23 June to 8 July 2026.
Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ) — Brazil's CNJ spread generative AI for courts nationwide via Conecta: three Mato Grosso state court tools. Within this judicial AI, LexIA analyses processes and drafts, Hannah checks appeal admissibility, OMNIA clears case backlogs with real-time recommendations.
Aeropuerto Internacional de Punta Cana — Punta Cana International Airport has deployed SeeTrue's AI baggage screening, which reads Leidos ClearScan CT scanner images at checkpoints live to help inspectors find possible illicit substances and undeclared cash in luggage. The airport calls it the first international-airport use of SeeTrue's algorithms with ClearScan for drug and currency detection, built to avoid slowing passenger processing.
Alcaldía Municipal del Distrito Central — Tegucigalpa's city hall has launched MDC en tus Manos, a WhatsApp assistant it bills as Honduras's first municipal AI agent. Residents photograph and locate damaged signage, blocked drains, water leaks or potholes; the agent classifies and routes each report to the right department in under a minute and answers refuse-collection and water-distribution schedule queries. Built by the Alcaldía Municipal del Distrito Central's new AMDC+IA unit with the Universidad Tecnológica de Honduras' AI laboratories, it aims to reinvent bureaucracy, Mayor Juan Diego Zelaya says.
Bermuda Monetary Authority — The Bermuda Monetary Authority is consulting on The Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services in Bermuda, AI guidance for financial firms on applying existing obligations to AI they develop, deploy or use. Covering operational resilience, cyber security, transparency, data oversight, risk management and governance, it adds no new requirements or separate AI licensing regime; responses close 30 October.
Curaçao Innovation Hub — Curaçao Innovation Hub placed second worldwide at the SparkVision AI Film Festival 2026, a contest open only to work made 100 percent with artificial intelligence. The Ministry of Economic Development (MEO) released the placing, casting the hub's AI filmmaking as what emerging technology and innovation yield beside Curaçao's culture, language, identity and local talent, and as proof the island can compete internationally in fast-moving technological and creative industries. Makers of the AI-generated short film say the point was to let people see and feel a possible island future, one now waiting to be built.
Oasis Imaging and MRI Centre — Oasis Imaging and MRI Centre now offers AI-enabled diagnostic imaging in St Andrew, Jamaica, cutting scan durations up to 60 per cent. Radiologists gain sharper diagnoses via MRI, CT, X-ray, ultrasound, mammography and prostate/breast scans, with MRI ready in 24-48 hours, through this AI-driven medical imaging service.
Asamblea Nacional de Panamá — The National Assembly passed Bill 588, an adaptive-governance Panama AI regulation, in third debate, sending it to the Executive for presidential sanction. The AI rules rank systems across four impact levels (low, moderate, high, critical) with matching transparency, oversight and safeguard duties. SENACYT chairs a National Commission for Regulatory Experimentation; high-impact decisions need human oversight, and public entities must embed design-to-deployment safeguards.
Prefeitura de Rio Verde (Goiás) — Rio Verde's city government in Goiás runs an AI municipal chatbot from Gove covering 244 services across 24 departments through 26 specialised AI agents. Since January 2026 it has handled nearly 65,000 interactions, settling about 40% of requests without staff, the city says; no independent evaluation is published.
Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología, Conocimiento e Innovación — Chile's science ministry has put over 5,000 public officials through AI training via Stack Público and built TAM-GPT, a Latin American language model, with the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Six priorities for 2026-2030 target about 100 AI pilots in the state, some one million people trained and reconversion for 100,000 workers.
Government of the Bahamas — The Bahamas will put $3m of an Inter-American Development Bank loan into AI skills training, says Sebas Bastian, minister of innovation and national development. It splits between basic AI literacy for all and advanced tuition for Bahamians building technology, with courses announced shortly.
ExxonMobil — ExxonMobil has found four new exploration opportunities in Guyana's Stabroek Block through AI oil exploration and advanced subsurface methods. Models trained on its past discoveries, drilling outcomes and subsurface data were turned on hard-to-evaluate acreage, blending advanced seismic imaging, high-performance computing, machine learning and deep learning. Exploration vice-president John Ardill says the company is widening their use for seismic analysis and prospect generation.
Vale — Vale and ABB have widened their alliance to take automation and AI in mining across Vale's Brazilian iron ore processing plants, as already done at Conceição II in Itabira. That 11.2Mt-a-year complex has over 7,000 automated instruments, 100-plus monitoring cameras and data intelligence tracking 400-plus variables. Operations vice-president Carlos Medeiros reports 25% higher productivity, 40% more premium direct-reduction ore and 26% lower iron losses to tailings there.
Consejo de Gabinete / SENACYT — Panama's Cabinet Council has approved the National AI Strategy through Resolution 89-26, drafted under SENACYT, setting objectives, programmes and priorities for ethical, responsible, inclusive and secure AI and aiming to make the country a trusted AI innovation hub in Latin America. The resolution works as a policy roadmap: it adds no testing, certification or product-authorisation requirements, and ASEP equipment homologation stays as it is.
Interbank — Interbank has become the first Peruvian bank with a direct Anthropic agreement, deploying Claude Enterprise to an initial group of staff including knowledge workers and specialist technology teams. Training and support programmes accompany this enterprise AI in banking rollout to keep adoption responsible, the bank says. Claudio Querol, vice-president for data, analytics and AI, plans to extend the tool gradually to more staff and processes.
Ministerio de Planificación del Desarrollo y Medio Ambiente — Bolivia's Ministry of Planning, Development and Environment launched BolivIA, state-built AI for legal research that lets public servants query laws, decrees and resolutions, citing the exact instruments. Minister Fernando Romero Pinto says research drops from hours to seconds, using only current regulation, in what the ministry calls step one of a wider state AI strategy.
Empresa Electrica de La Habana — Empresa Electrica de La Habana will hand dispatchers AI blackout scheduling tools built with mathematicians at the Facultad de Matematicas of the Universidad de La Habana. The utility says the decision-support software, shown to President Miguel Diaz-Canel, should even out how circuits are rotated and push notices to households over Telegram. Nothing is switched on yet: the company describes AI-driven outage rotation as work still under way, aimed at transparency and fairer sharing of cuts.
Government of the State of San Luis Potosí — San Luis Potosí's government has put four AI robot dogs into public-security service, the first Mexican state to do so. Governor Ricardo Gallardo calls them technological first responders that patrol, scout terrain and temperature, go where officers would be at risk and stream live images to command centres. They debut at the Feria Nacional Potosina; 16 are earmarked for the Civil Guard, and five humanoid robots ordered from China have not yet arrived.
Ministerio de Defensa Nacional — Flagging risks ahead of signature is now the job of Helios, an AI corruption detection in public contracts system rolled out by Colombia's Ministry of Defense. Built to scan millions of SECOP I and SECOP II procurement entries, it hunts for warning patterns: bids with only one competitor, suspiciously compressed award windows, clusters of business going to the same supplier, and companies carrying past sanctions. So far the AI procurement fraud detection tool sits in an early pilot stage, restricted to internal use by ministry staff.
Brazilian Ministry of Health — Brazil's health ministry runs its National Network of Intelligent ICUs, AI in intensive care backing clinicians, in six hospitals: Manaus, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Recife, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro's Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho. Companion pilot SAMU Inteligente links live clinical data across emergency dispatch centres, ambulances and intensive care units in Recife, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre. It set out the smart ICU network at an intelligent-hospitals symposium.
Direction Départementale d'Éducation du Nord-Est, MENFP — Haiti's North-East departmental education directorate now applies AI exam quality control before state examination results are finally validated, a step in modernising public education administration. Later that month the education ministry released first results for the 9th fundamental year, the baccalaureate and the ENIJE teacher-training exam.
Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico's Ley 163-2026 gives AI image rights explicit footing by folding deepfakes and cloned voices into the Right to One's Own Image Law. Jenniffer González Colón's amendment defines 'image' to catch digitally altered audiovisual, auditory or multimedia output mimicking likeness, voice or identifiable traits, extending deepfake likeness protection beyond older standards. Existing fines and damages still apply.
Oficina Gubernamental de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (OGTIC) — Taína, an AI assistant for public services from the Dominican Republic's Government Office of ICT (OGTIC), will handle passport renewals via WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram. It flags expiring documents, fills forms, books appointments and takes payments, with human oversight, audits and fraud checks built into this AI-powered virtual government assistant. Five digitalised services launch in 2026, expanding afterwards, OGTIC's Edgar Batista said.
Government of Honduras (Sistema Nacional de Emergencias 911) — AI facial recognition emergency system upgrades are coming to Honduras's Sistema Nacional de Emergencias 911 under President Nasry Asfura, adding licence plate identification and vehicle data to sharpen nationwide response speed. Marking the service's tenth year, officials pointed to over 6,900 recovered cameras and faster reaction times, folding AI-driven public-safety surveillance into a decade-old network.
Presidencia de la República del Ecuador / SERCOP — Ecuador's president Daniel Noboa signed Executive Decree 461, reforming procurement rules to phase in AI in public procurement: automated early-warning systems, data mining, natural-language processing and machine learning. Procurement agency SERCOP will use them to spot tendering risks, irregularities and breaches, funded by a new special levy.
National Centre for Technological Innovation — The National Centre for Technological Innovation (NCTI) delivered AI training for police officers of the Royal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF). Responsible AI use in law enforcement was covered alongside digital investigations, cyber threats, emerging technologies, cybersecurity and modern policing.
National Directorate of Industrial Property (DNPI) — AI trademark examination has arrived at Uruguay's National Directorate of Industrial Property. Its in-house assistant scans submitted files—images, attorney authorisations, proof of payment—spots problems, and drafts notes that staff then confirm under this AI-assisted trademark registration approach.
Associação dos Advogados de São Paulo (AASP) — Among 1,149 AASP members surveyed from 14 May to 14 July 2026, 87.4% use an AI tool in their legal work and 62.1% of those use one often. Hallucinations top feared risks at 54%, unsupervised use second on 23.2%, 74.2% back rules on AI in legal practice and 84.3% report higher productivity. Respondents skew older: 81.3% are over 45.
Prefeitura de Porto Alegre (Secretaria Municipal de Saúde and Procempa) — Porto Alegre's municipal IT company Procempa has built MedGenIA, a generative-AI health app, into Gerint, the city health department's SUS hospital admissions system, for AI hospital admission triage. From each facility's request data it drafts a structured case summary and a suggested priority rating for the regulating physicians allocating beds.
TelevisaUnivision — TelevisaUnivision confirms it already uses AI dubbing on part of its catalogue to take productions faster into markets where Spanish is not the main language. It works with ElevenLabs and other specialists whose voice replication translates into Portuguese, Korean and more far quicker than conventional dubbing.
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja — More than 400 civil servants across Ecuador gained grounding in AI ethics training for public servants through a programme run by Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), touching on regulatory rules, openness and public governance. The curriculum unfolded at three separate venues - the National Assembly, the Council of the Judiciary and the Ministry of Defence - and paired instruction with 200 awarded scholarships toward a diploma focused on combating corruption. This AI governance training in the public sector explored how Ecuador's legal framework for artificial intelligence intersects with the ethical questions confronting government bodies.
Itaú Unibanco — Itau Unibanco has released 'ia.i', an in-app AI banking assistant, to 300,000 clients, who can do their banking and seek financial guidance in natural language, spoken or typed. Built on a multi-model architecture, it should reach the whole client base by December.
Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology (Mincyt) — AI damage assessment earthquake response now runs at Mincyt, Venezuela's Ministry of Science and Technology, which built the system after the double earthquake of June 24. Drone and satellite feeds train the model to spot, classify and flag structural harm, plotting results onto colour-coded maps graded from critical red down to minor yellow. Output reaches the armed forces, civil protection teams and the presidential infrastructure commission, giving relief coordination a shared, geo-tagged picture of where damage is worst — a form of AI-based infrastructure damage categorisation applied directly to disaster response.
Sunrise Airways — Haitian carrier Sunrise Airways has put a multilingual AI customer service assistant on WhatsApp to help passengers before, during and after flights. The airline expects the WhatsApp helper to smooth contact with travellers during delays, cancellations and other disruption.
Colegio de Abogados de Chile — Chile's Colegio de Abogados now offers guidance on responsible AI use by lawyers, cleared by its General Council on 6 July. Advocates must grasp the tools they adopt, check machine output in person, keep professional judgment to themselves and confirm any citation a system supplies before going to court.
Tesorería General de la República — Chile's Tesorería General de la República put an AI voice agent built with CGS Nexus on tax-query calls during Operación Renta, trained on 50-plus enquiry types. It served over 43,000 people and settled about 60% of calls alone, passing complex cases to staff, the Treasury says; no independent evaluation is published.
Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico — Governor Jenniffer González Colón's Ley 140-2026 folds AI content in cybersecurity continuing education into Puerto Rico's Cybersecurity Law, an artificial intelligence coursework requirement for government workers. The mandate pairs AI instruction with privacy, system defence, data handling, cyberattack prevention and responsible adoption of new tools.
Hospital Biprovincial Quillota Petorca — Hospital Biprovincial Quillota Petorca began SITGEQ, AI surgical management with real-time dashboards, in pre-surgery and, from 27 July, its operating theatres. GesNova Salud's system gathers clinical records, waiting-list status, theatre timetables and patient tests so teams follow each case from surgical request to operation. Hospital director Eduardo Lara Hernández highlights its data analytics and AI; the goals are better theatre use, fewer cancellations and shorter public-network surgical waiting lists. Two of the Viña del Mar Quillota Petorca health service's three high-complexity hospitals now use it.
Centro Médico de Puerto Rico (ASEM) — Centro Médico de Puerto Rico's emergency room, run by the island's Medical Services Administration (ASEM), has brought in AI-assisted CT scanning, part of roughly US$1.8 million in investment. ASEM's director says the RapidAI platform will process images and aid clinical analysis, backing radiologists and doctors while leaving clinical judgement with them.
Ministry of Health of St. Kitts and Nevis — Joseph N. France General Hospital now runs AI clinical decision support under St. Kitts and Nevis' National Digital Health Information System (NDHIS), reaching over 51,000 residents. Built locally by the St. Kitts and Nevis Robotics Association, the platform ties e-prescriptions, lab data, imaging and billing to population-level analytics and an advisory-only clinical decision support layer, per the Ministry of Health. Clinicians retain final authority.
Instituto Tecnológico de las Américas (ITLA) / Policía Nacional — The Instituto Tecnológico de las Américas (ITLA) gave Dominican National Police leadership the country's first AI training for police in a five-week course, 'Artificial Intelligence Applied to Police Sciences', covering information analysis, decision-support tools, predictive analysis, automation and crime prevention. This law enforcement AI certification follows an ITLA-National Police memorandum of understanding.
Barros & Errázuriz — Barros & Errázuriz reports 70% to 80% of its lawyers using AI tools to support their work, close to three years into a generative AI rollout at the law firm. One of South America's first Harvey adopters, the practice has managing partner Cristián Barros sharing lessons from the platform.
Caribbean Examinations Council — The Caribbean Examinations Council is dropping school-based assessments in non-practical subjects for Paper 032, sat under invigilation, blaming fast-spreading generative artificial intelligence; the CXC AI policy came from Barbados, 16 July 2026. Losers include Mathematics, English, Caribbean History, Social Studies and Principles of Business, while Agricultural Science, Visual Arts, Music and other hands-on courses retain theirs. Regional exam AI rules hit CAPE from May-June 2027 and bind CSEC by May-June 2028. Registrar Dr Wayne Wesley called qualification integrity non-negotiable.
Banco Popular Dominicano — Banco Popular Dominicano now uses AI virtual assistants to arrange bank-card delivery, calling customers to confirm addresses and chase new cards, renewals and replacements. Customers may switch to a human agent at any time, and the bank frames the AI as support for its staff.
Senior Courts of Belize (High Court) — Belize's High Courts will use Lexis+ Protégé, an AI legal research and drafting tool, to speed up judgments. Judges and Belize Bar Association members trained on it at a 15–16 July High Court seminar hosted by Chief Justice Louise Esther Blenman and the Judicial Education Institute, following an April workshop on LexisNexis's AI tools.
Ministry of Energy and Business, Barbados — The Ministry of Energy and Business launched AI shopping assistant Ask Dealia on 15 July 2026 at the Warrens Office Complex, St Michael, Barbados. Infolytics built the app, the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs runs the service, and agent Dealia mines shoppers' conversations for bargains alongside live supermarket prices, promotions, events and personalised recommendations. Infolytics chief executive Quinn Weekes counts 400,000-plus products, 2,000 companies on the AI price-comparison tool.
Hospital Escuela de Tegucigalpa — Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa reported 98% sensitivity for an AI sepsis detection system tested in 2026 on 100 emergency patients. The tool paired natural language processing with a wearable biosensor bracelet, reaching an F1-score of 0.848 and kappa=0.847 against clinical diagnosis. Researchers said AI-based early sepsis screening should support triage decisions, not replace clinical judgement.
Conseil National des Télécommunications (CONATEL) — Haiti's Conseil National des Télécommunications (CONATEL) ran generative AI training for staff over three days, 29-31 July. Sessions covered prompt engineering and practical tool use. École Supérieure d'Infotronique d'Haïti (ESIH) taught the course at CONATEL's Delmas site under Konbit IA, a push for building AI skills across public bodies.
Government of Honduras — Amazon Web Services and the Government of Honduras have launched AWS Entrena Honduras, an AI training programme giving 15,000 Hondurans no-cost artificial intelligence and cloud computing lessons. Sponsors also include the Central District Mayor's Office, the US Embassy and Grupo Financiero Atlántida, with distinct routes suited to ordinary learners, students and entrepreneurs from age 18. Finishers walk away holding a digital credential issued by AWS.
Government of Curaçao — Educators, scientists, firms, civic groups and officials are being invited to shape Curaçao's national AI strategy under a fresh push from the Government and its Regulatory Authority (RAC). Sithree van Heydoorn heads this effort, drawing on the UNESCO AI Readiness Assessment and Caribbean AI Policy Roadmap to steer the territory's AI policy development.
Conselho Federal da OAB — Brazil's Federal Council of the Bar Association (OAB) launched OpenDetector, a free AI citation checker for registered lawyers, flagging invented legal provisions, wrong precedents and citations absent from official databases in AI-drafted petitions and opinions. The Forlex-built checking tool opens the OAB's national plan for AI in legal practice.
Poder Judicial de la República Dominicana — The Dominican judiciary is piloting Microsoft Copilot in the Supreme Court of Justice's First Chamber and administrative areas, using it for routine tasks, drafting help and case-information queries. This AI legal document automation also covers standardising rulings, certifications and decisions on alimony, divorce and eviction cases, plus portal tools for text recognition, file anonymising and automatic hearing scheduling.
Intendencia de Florida — Uruguay's Florida departmental government has launched Mi Portal Florida with FlorIA, an AI virtual assistant that guides users and answers common questions, on a single citizen portal for geolocated complaints, appointments and procedures. It aims to curb repetitive enquiries so staff can concentrate on resolving cases.
Government of Aruba — The Ministry of Kingdom Relations, Education, Youth, Innovation and Sport has started work on a national AI strategy, following the Third Ministerial Summit on the Ethics of AI in Latin America and the Caribbean. The strategic plan will cover AI literacy in education, a governance and regulatory framework, protection of vulnerable groups, and shared digital infrastructure. Public, private and academic partners, including UNESCO Aruba and the University of Aruba, will contribute.
Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MinTIC) — Colombia's ICT ministry uses six AI, analytics and cloud systems from the ministry's IT office for AI in government work: generative AI manages citizens' petitions and complaints (PQRSD) and another tool runs contractor payments. The rest issue telecoms-operator charge sheets and debt-collection notices, step one of a broader public-sector AI programme.
Governo do Paraná (Hospital do Câncer de Londrina and Hospital São Vicente, Guarapuava) — Paraná has become the first Brazilian state to place AI in cancer care at SUS hospitals, helping doctors work through complex cases. First-stage sites for Projeto Capricórnio, built by Google Cloud with the Princess Máxima Center, are the Londrina Cancer Hospital and Guarapuava's Hospital São Vicente, where an oncologist says AI-assisted literature reviews take 15 to 20 minutes. Decisions remain with medical teams.
Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago — Chief Justice Ronnie Boodoosingh has signed off on a Practice Direction on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Court Proceedings, giving Trinidad and Tobago's Judiciary a rulebook for AI use in courts. Staff may lean on the tool for drafting and admin only once outputs are checked by a person, fabricating evidence with it is banned outright, and its use must be flagged in any filing; reasoning through a case or writing a judgment stays strictly a human job for judicial officers, so generative AI in judicial proceedings stops there. Fabricated citations and confidentiality leaks were the risks driving the change.
Organismo Judicial / Corte Suprema de Justicia — BDG Sociedad Anónima has been tasked with building AI cassation sentencing software for Guatemala's Supreme Court, following a Q89 mil 570 award from the Organismo Judicial that covers as many as 350 appeal files across a three-month span. Instead of deciding outcomes itself, the platform sifts through case records and turns out structured draft judgments, needing hookup with systems already running inside the judiciary. Magistrates alone hold the last word, fixed under Acuerdo 93-2026, leaving this AI-drafted court judgments tool as a support role only.
Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação em Serviços Públicos (MGI) — Brazil's Ministry of Management and Innovation (MGI) has delivered AI training for civil servants to over 167 thousand federal public servants through 11 distinct courses. Coursework runs via the Enap virtual school and Serpro, covering generative artificial intelligence, ethics, data protection, automated processes and data science as part of a wider drive to build AI skills for government workers. MGI has also introduced an AI Competency Matrix to steer further skills development.
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Forenses de Guatemala (Inacif) — Guatemala's National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif) has for the first time identified a deceased person using IdentIA, AI tattoo matching software that analyses and classifies tattoos for body identification. A 24-year-old woman had lain unidentified in the Guatemala City morgue for about a month until the system matched her tattoos to her mother's ante-mortem interview; fingerprint comparison then confirmed her identity.
Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires — Buenos Aires city government launched BAX, an AI city services app putting cultural activities, information requests, complaints, appointments and procedures in one place. BAX's conversational AI takes text, voice or images, replacing forms and menus scattered across apps and sites.
Direction interministérielle du numérique (DINUM), Direction interministérielle de la transformation publique (DITP), Direction générale de l'administration et de la fonction publique (DGAFP) — Five binding rules now govern AI usage for civil servants across French territory, under DINUM's guide with DITP and DGAFP on 26 June 2026 — France's first interministerial AI usage guide for public agents, Guadeloupe included. Staff keep accountability for AI-assisted decisions, route sensitive data only through approved systems, and disclose AI's substantial role in outputs. Copyright-respecting, ethical practice plus training complete the framework.
Centro Oncológico Nacional Dr. Juan Ignacio Gutiérrez Sacasa (Ministerio de Salud, Nicaragua) — Nicaragua's Government will bring AI-assisted cancer diagnosis to Managua's National Oncology Centre once its second building phase completes on 31 July 2026. New imaging and pathology machines will carry built-in artificial intelligence, sharpening readings of X-rays and tissue samples. The move forms part of a wider push to strengthen public healthcare through AI diagnostic tools in oncology.
Poder Judicial de Río Negro — The Poder Judicial de Río Negro has brought AI anonymisation of court rulings into its Puma case-management system, ending the manual marking of personal data by staff. Developed by the judiciary's own Área de Informatización de la Gestión Judicial, it scans each document for names, identity documents, CUIL numbers and case-caption details needing protection and proposes an anonymised text every court office can check and adjust. It is optional for most documents but central for rulings due for publication.
Dominica19 Jun 2026Sickle Cell Cares Foundation Inc. — Sickle Cell Cares Foundation Inc. (SCCF) put SickleConnect live on World Sickle Cell Day, billing the free app at app.sicklecellcares.org as the Caribbean's first digital health platform for Sickle Cell Disease patients. Logged pain, triggers, medicines, hydration and lab results feed an AI clinical summary a patient hands to a doctor. That AI health report spans 30 days, is built from patient-entered data, goes to a haematologist, and costs nothing for the first 30 days. Sickle Cell Disease reaches an estimated 1 in 500 people of African or Caribbean descent, yet specialist haematology care stays scarce in Dominica and neighbouring Eastern Caribbean states; SCCF's founder and chief executive, Kellyn George, has HbSS Sickle Cell Disease herself.
Tigo (Colombia Móvil and UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones) — Colombia's Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) has opened the testing phase of ConTIGO Digital, Tigo's project for AI customer service by phone. Full Tigo subscribers are first to try the phone AI, linked to the operator's internal systems, and the CRC will use the results to weigh regulatory changes.
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)18 Jun 2026Falkland Islands Government — The Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Government has backed plans to outlaw AI-generated deepfake intimate images, endorsing an Executive Council paper that argued for a ban. Officials will next draft legislation spelling out offences for both producing and ordering such AI-generated non-consensual sexual imagery.
Government of Panama (Executive Decree No. 11 of 2026) — Panama's Executive Decree No. 11 of 17 June 2026 regulates the national Amber Alert system, implementing Law 469 of 2025 with responsibilities, procedures, response times and agency coordination. It promotes AI in missing-child searches with mobile apps, CCTV, video analysis and geolocation, and creates an Early Activation Office for reports, case assessment and alerts.
Ceibal and ANEP — Ceibal and education authority ANEP have added Gemini for Education (Plus version) and NotebookLM to the AI tools for teachers already in CREA and the Matific and Aleks maths platforms. Teachers may request data-protected institutional accounts, use is voluntary, and Ceibal's president promises monitoring and evaluation of the effects.
Gobierno de la Provincia del Neuquén (Dirección de Fauna) — Neuquén's governor Rolando Figueroa says the province's wildlife wardens will get 16 AI anti-poaching drones with thermal cameras from 1 July to fight illegal fishing and hunting. They also receive 60 tablets for digital enforcement records and Starlink antennas for remote areas, working jointly with the provincial police.
Ministerio de Administración Pública (MAP) — Dominican Republic's Ministry of Public Administration (MAP) is funding 2,000 places on a course covering AI in public sector training for civil servants across all state entities, part of a growing government push in this area. The self-paced, fully remote generative AI course for civil servants runs through Academia BID with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) backing, needs no prior background, and leads to a certificate covering generative AI applications and ethics in government work. Applications closed 4 August 2026; the full title is "Generative Artificial Intelligence: Fundamentals for the Public Function of Latin America and the Caribbean | DR Edition".
Cementos Argos — Cementos Argos has swapped manual grinding and inventory planning at its Cartagena plant for machine learning in cement production, an optimisation system that weighs hundreds of scenarios simultaneously and proposes actions. Built by in-house planning, production, supply-chain and analytics teams, it will spread to other Argos plants.
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires — The University of Buenos Aires' Faculty of Economic Sciences approved AI rules for teaching, learning and assessment and began running its own AI teaching assistant inside the virtual classroom, loaded with each chair's reading list. The in-house assistant already serves 40 subjects across 184 courses, about 2,000 students.
Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE) — Mexico's state-employee health institute ISSSTE has opened four AI mammography reading centres, the 'Cuartos Azules', in hospitals in Mexico City, Jalisco, Yucatán and Coahuila. With six stations each, they aim to handle over 400,000 mammograms a year, interpreted remotely by breast-imaging radiologists, officials told the president's briefing.
Horacio Oduber Hospital — Horacio Oduber Hospital has rebuilt AI prostate MRI diagnosis around scanning before sampling, so men with a high PSA in Aruba no longer go straight to a prostate biopsy. Where the scan flags one or more doubtful zones, fused MRI and ultrasound views show where to take tissue. Siemens Nederland and Global Medica reworked the radiology department's existing scanner for AI-enhanced prostate imaging, adding artificial intelligence for quality and efficiency plus replacement ultrasound units. Urologist Leong reports sharper targeting, less pain and fewer complications.
Ministry of Innovation and National Development — Sebas Bastian, minister of innovation and national development, told the 2026-2027 Budget debate that SmartGov, a package of AI tools for civil servants, will absorb briefs, research, correspondence and paperwork. The Government will not lay software over today's forms, but rewire the workflow beneath, so a task that used to pass across a desk becomes automatic. A secure national identity card anchors the joined-up state these public sector AI tools serve.
PwC Bermuda — PwC's Caribbean Corporate Governance Survey 2026 - Bermuda Edition, June 2026, has 62 per cent of Bermuda directors seeing gains from AI and generative AI spending, yet only 29 per cent credit management with delivering AI and GenAI strategy. AI governance ties cybersecurity as top risk, each primary for 24 per cent; 41 per cent back the board's capacity to oversee AI and GenAI plans, 37 per cent confirm a formal route for AI-related opportunities and risks, 37 per cent report thin board education. Just 7 per cent rate AI expertise top when recruiting, and PwC Bermuda partner Marisa Savage said boardrooms now demand different skills, leaving board AI oversight short.
Sindicatura General de la Nación (SIGEN) — SIGEN's Resolution 197/2026, dated 22 June, introduces formal AI governance in Argentina's public sector via structured implementation controls across every national government body. The AI Controls Guide (Guía de Controles Inteligencia Artificial) applies risk-based oversight to AI systems, tying each to institutional goals, legal compliance, and standards of integrity, transparency and accountability.
Conselho Federal da OAB — CFOAB, the Bar Association's Federal Council, launched the National Plan for the Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice in João Pessoa, a Brazil AI policy extending its 2024 generative AI recommendations. Its pillars are technological inclusion, governance, defence of professional prerogatives, training and modernising OAB services. Next under the plan: a Code of Good Practice on AI in Legal Practice and technical chambers in state sections.
Awitec — Awitec's Baromètre IA Martinique 2026 polled 130 company decision-makers on AI adoption in Martinique businesses, a snapshot of generative AI use among company decision-makers. 50% had only tried generative AI once or twice out of curiosity, 33% acted as strategic thinking partners with the tools, and 17% reached expert level in automation and agentic AI. 89% still lack a working grasp of EU AI Act requirements.
Legislature of the United States Virgin Islands — The 36th Legislature of the United States Virgin Islands introduced Bill 36-0298 to amend Title 18 of the Virgin Islands Code, setting rules for materially deceptive AI-generated political communications. Election materials containing AI-generated content would need a disclosure. The Committee on Rules and Judiciary received the bill.
Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico — Ley 105-2026, signed by Governor Jenniffer González Colón, a Puerto Rico AI regulation, obliges campaign ads, notices or messages fully or partly AI-made or AI-modified to show plain, visible labels. Election AI rules amend Campaign Finance Law and Electoral Code, treating AI as technology doing human-intelligence work, including generative systems for text, images, audio, video or other digital material.
Corte Suprema de Chile — Chile's Supreme Court suspended a litigating lawyer for one month and fined her 5 UTM over AI-invented citations: her cassation appeal quoted doctrine from non-existent books generated by an AI chatbot. Its Third Chamber found a breach of procedural good faith.
Government of Jamaica — Jamaica backs GAINS (Growing AI Innovation and National Skills Programme) with JMD $545 million for AI skills certification across all 63 constituencies. A six-week AI Mastery Curriculum targets 1,260 HEART/NSTA-certified graduates per cohort, feeding a broader AI skills training effort. St Catherine and St Andrew pilot first, ahead of national rollout.
Belize Department of Civil Aviation — Staff at Belize's Department of Civil Aviation finished "Cleared for AI: A Civil Aviation Literacy Session," covering AI literacy in aviation. Topics included AI history, prompting, safety, ethics, and demos of FOD detection and RAG chatbots, aimed at building AI training for aviation staff while preserving human oversight.
Municipalidad de Santa Ana — Costa Rica's Municipality of Santa Ana has started a pilot in which two AI agents for public procurement will help departments draft market studies and technical specifications for tender documents. A workload study showed departments sinking time into SICOP e-procurement paperwork; municipal police, parks, culture, public works and purchasing are all taking part.
Consejo de Estado — Colombia's Council of State warned sharply over AI-fabricated citations after finding that rulings a lawyer cited in a rejected jurisprudence-unification appeal were non-existent or mismatched. It ruled AI admissible only when decisions come from the judge's own reasoning, never deciding, weighing evidence or interpreting law, and referred the lawyer to disciplinary authorities.
Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS) — Brazil's supplementary health regulator, the ANS, is developing Iara, an AI claims review tool to assess insurers' challenges to SUS treatment charges for their members, with analysts checking every recommendation. A first module is due by end-2026 and full rollout in 2028; developer Paipe won a public tender.
Governo de Mato Grosso do Sul (Secretaria de Estado de Educação) — Mato Grosso do Sul's state government has signed a Google partnership bringing AI in state schools to about 190,000 students through Gemini and Google Workspace for Education, with training for up to 5,000 teachers. The state education secretary says pupils and teachers will need guidance on appropriate, ethical use of Google's AI tools.
Bahari — Bahari posted Facebook images for the Coral World collection on 31 May built around AI-generated models, not photographed people. Shoppers pushed back, saying a label built on island culture should have booked real faces. General manager Carole Barnett replied that campaigns have leaned on local talent since 2014, and that AI fashion imagery suited this shoot because Coral World itself has closed.
Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela — Decreed 29 May 2026 by Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's new Vice-Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Productive Efficiency sits under the Ministry of Science and Technology, extending AI in government toward industrial modernisation. A parallel Technology and Data Management Centre applies predictive-maintenance and output-optimisation software to hydrocarbons. Officials frame this as groundwork for broader artificial intelligence in the public sector.
Ministry of Management and Innovation (MGI) — Brazil's GOV.BR portal answers up to 75% of education and health questions through an AI chatbot for citizen services, across 157 thousand chats. Minister Esther Dweck's INSPIRE project built the government chatbot; ministries record 182 AI use cases.
Anguilla Tourist Board — The Anguilla Tourist Board has put an AI concierge for tourism into visitors' hands with the 27 May 2026 launch of its Xcape destination app, part of its "Taste, Feel, Live" summer campaign. The concierge weighs weather, safety concerns and user ratings, flagging unsuitable sea conditions or tides and suggesting safer options, alongside GPS routes, nearby beaches and sights, and where to eat. Wilson Jno Baptiste and Gavin Jean built the platform; Destination Experience Manager Keri Rogers said the idea came from wanting to help visitors find their way, and anyone can download it at no cost from the App Store and Google Play.
Universidad de la República (Udelar) — The governing council of Uruguay's public University of the Republic (Udelar) has approved university AI principles institution-wide. The document sees AI helping academic and administrative work and asks for transparent, ethical use; it puts 'general interest and centrality of the human person' first.
Hospital Clínico Universitario (UCV) — UCV has relaunched AI in robotic surgery in Venezuela, pairing a multi-arm robot with AI tools and a digital platform linking records to booking. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez opened this AI-assisted surgical setup, spanning urology, gynaecology, thoracic and general procedures with Chinese-made equipment, for wider rollout across state hospitals.
Interact Club of Brick by Brick — Suriname's Interact Club of Brick by Brick has built Flowvie, a free AI menstrual health assistant offering young women online guidance on periods and wellbeing. Extending the club's Bloedserieus initiative, it draws answers from screened material — input from international health bodies and checked educational content — as an AI-driven menstruation guidance tool designed for reliability.
Joint Court of Justice of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba — Fairness, independence and openness underpin an emerging AI policy for judges at Curaçao's Joint Court of Justice. A panel assembled during the annual Knowledge Week produced this judicial AI governance framework, spanning bench and personnel alike. Directors took up the draft for scrutiny in May 2026.
Superintendencia Nacional de Aduanas y de Administración Tributaria (SUNAT) — Peru's tax and customs agency SUNAT has found more than 34,000 people letting property through platforms such as Booking and Airbnb, who are now regularising their taxes. Head Franco Castillo says AI tax enforcement and data analytics already spot patterns of unregistered commercial activity, especially in imports and e-commerce.
Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo (TJSP) — The São Paulo Court of Justice (TJSP) launched IA TJSP, guidance and tools for AI in judicial work under CNJ Resolution 615/25. Transcreve TJSP turns hearing audio into text, Apoia anonymises data, Promptus is a national prompt bank, the Gerador de Ementas TJSP drafts case summaries and Jurisprudência GPT searches higher-court case law, citing its sources. Tutorials on data-protection settings and prompting round out the court AI kit.
Government of Guyana — Guyana's President Irfaan Ali says a mobile AI traffic enforcement unit is now patrolling roads, automatically spotting vehicles with unpaid tickets so they can be stopped. The surveillance unit's pilot days earlier caught 250 vehicles with outstanding tickets.
Ministerio de Desarrollo Social (MIDES) — MIDES runs an AI parenting support chatbot on WhatsApp, Asistente Virtual de Crianza, answering Uruguayan parents on pregnancy and upbringing questions. This WhatsApp chatbot for childcare guidance draws on Uruguay Crece Contigo, the Ministry of Public Health, PAHO and UNICEF, and flags vulnerability signs to telecare staff.
Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) — The Superior Court of Justice (STJ) opened an inquiry and administrative procedure on finding prompt injection, concealed instructions to fool AI models, in filings on its docket. Each attempt must be logged in the record so judges can impose procedural penalties. President Herman Benjamin says the court's AI blocked these hidden-command attacks, now being mapped.
Comisión Nacional de Disciplina Judicial — Six ethical parameters for AI in Colombian courts come from the National Commission of Judicial Discipline, ruling on a magistrate whose tutela decisions were allegedly machine-written without his checking. Human reasoning stays irreplaceable; officials using judicial AI must withhold sensitive data and disclose when, how and in which passage it helped.
Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) — Costa Rica's social security fund, the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), is using AI waiting list management to update and prune lists for surgeries, procedures and outpatient consultations. The bot compares the digital health record, civil registry and other records to find cases no longer needing care, and staff validate every case before anyone leaves a list.
Chatmore International School — Chatmore International School has switched Years 2 to 11 onto CENTURY's AI learning platform, a Bermuda first, following a pilot. Staff sought bespoke study routes, instant feedback and usable data without extra workload. Secondary teacher Sandrine McGlashin records no pupil objections, with the AI-driven teaching tool mostly set for homework and brief lessons; head of school Britanni Butterworth points to stronger attainment among IGCSE pupils wanting extra drilling. More than 70 COBIS schools worldwide run CENTURY.
Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA) — El Salvador AI policy now points toward sovereign tech independence, with the Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA) projecting AI could drive nearly 20% of GDP by 2031. The Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial 2026 ties this national artificial intelligence strategy to Bitcoin innovation as a growth engine. ANIA calls the plan living, built to shift as the sector matures.
Congreso de la Unión / Diario Oficial de la Federación — Mexico's Federal Copyright Law reform, in the Official Gazette on 14 May 2026 and effective next day, imposes an AI voice cloning ban on performers' voices and faces without consent. Fines reaching 40,000 days' minimum wage shield voice actors, dubbing artists and announcers from unauthorised clones.
OAB São Paulo — Tribunal de Ética e Disciplina — The São Paulo bar's ethics and discipline tribunal (OAB SP TED) unanimously adopted ethical guidelines for lawyers' use of AI on 16 April 2026. Arguments may not rest on automated results alone, complete checking of generated content is deemed vital against factual or legal mistakes, and partners and managers must oversee associates, interns and assistants. Cybersecurity policies and staff training round out this professional AI rulebook.
Ceibal / ANEP — Three in four Uruguayan primary and secondary teachers now use AI in teaching day to day, finds a national Ceibal study published by education authority ANEP. Combining the National Teacher Survey and fieldwork, it found chatbots the most used tool, mainly for generating materials, designing activities and assessments, and preparing content.
Policía Nacional Civil (PNC) — Guatemala's National Civil Police (PNC) put 25 officers through a five-day AI for criminal analysis course with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), covering dark web methods, part of a push on artificial intelligence applied to crime analysis. SVET, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the National Institute for Strategic Security Studies also took part.
RF Merchant Bank & Trust (Barbados) Limited / WizdomCRM — RF Merchant Bank & Trust (Barbados) Limited has widened AI financial literacy at Harrison College, whose 300-plus entrants push the Sustainable Stock Market Artificial Intelligence Game to almost 800 pupils with The Lodge School and Combermere School. Caribbean tech firm WizdomCRM delivers the game, backed by the Ministry of Education Transformation. Virtual portfolios tracking domestic and overseas exchanges cover financial planning, market trends and investing via artificial intelligence-powered learning tools, AI-assisted investing lessons widening on 8 May 2026.
Gobierno de la Provincia del Neuquén — Neuquén's provincial government runs an AI consumer protection chatbot answering consumers day and night. A panel of AI agents reads each query, checks procedural requirements and legal guidance, and replies with step-by-step instructions.
Ministerio de la Presidencia de Panamá — Panama AI policy gains a permanent Artificial Intelligence Subcommission, led by SENACYT's National Secretary, via Executive Decree No. 36. A National Commission for Critical and Emerging Technologies must bring a National AI Strategy before the Cabinet Council for sign-off. Gazetted 8 May 2026 (No. 30520-A), this AI governance measure deems critical and emerging technologies strategic priorities.
Programa Juntos (Ministerio de Desarrollo e Inclusión Social) — Peru's Juntos social programme, of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion, launched MarIA, an AI chatbot for social programmes answering beneficiaries on WhatsApp day and night in Quechua and Spanish. Built in-house, the WhatsApp assistant passes cases needing personal attention to a user-support technician.
Centro Nacional de Innovación y Tecnología Francisco El Chele Moreno (CI Nicaragua) / INATEC — CI Nicaragua, INATEC's Centro Nacional de Innovación y Tecnología Francisco El Chele Moreno, certified 110 public servants from MARENA and INPESCA in AI productivity tools after a six-week course. Staff practised using large language models and AI-integrated project management platforms to automate administrative work and improve service delivery. The course in AI-enabled work tools supports a state digital-skills drive to modernise public services.
Superior Tribunal de Justicia de la Provincia del Chubut — Chubut's Superior Court of Justice revived a robbery conviction an appeal chamber had quashed over suspected AI drafting, after a chatbot line turned up pasted in the trial ruling. Nullity is narrow, it said: failing to trace a judge's reasoning does not alone show the accused was prejudiced.
Turks and Caicos Islands Government — Turks and Caicos Islands Government will introduce AI case management overseas treatment for its Treatment Abroad Programme (TAP), built by the Ministry of Innovation, Technology and Energy after the plan won a spot in the World Bank Digital LAC AI Accelerator. Minister E. Jay Saunders said the tool will speed workflows, cut delays and strengthen accountability for TAP's overseas medical cases, a programme already above 10% of the national budget. This marks agentic AI in healthcare administration for a programme that consumes over a tenth of public spending.
Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Querétaro — The Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Querétaro used Sonia, its self-built and self-hosted generative AI, to help write two final rulings, in a commercial enforcement case and an uncontested divorce, reportedly a first for generative AI in Mexican courts. Court president Braulio Guerra Urbiola says around 17 million pesos went on a dedicated physical server to keep litigants' data in house, with six months of training on family and commercial law. Specialists supervise every Sonia document and the presiding judge assesses it before issue, keeping legal responsibility with the judge.
Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros — Peru's Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros has signed off on a Peru AI policy running to 2030: the Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ENIA) 2026-2030, approved via Resolución Ministerial N.° 152-2026-PCM. Four pillars anchor this national AI strategy — growing AI talent and capabilities, driving AI-based innovation and entrepreneurship, building an ethical and regulatory framework, and encouraging citizen participation and collaboration. Government, academia, private business and civil society are all meant to follow its direction on how artificial intelligence gets built, used and overseen nationwide.
Gobernación de Cundinamarca — Residents of Cundinamarca can now lodge PQRSDF requests over WhatsApp, using an AI virtual assistant government services channel called Policarpa. Linked to the Cóndor document system, it issues a filing number holding the same legal weight as in-person paperwork, an AI-powered public service assistant cutting the need for office visits.
Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação em Serviços Públicos (MGI) — Brazil AI governance policy now covers MGI, the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services, via Portaria 3.485, fixing principles, guidelines and responsibilities for developing, acquiring and using AI systems inside the ministry. It functions as internal AI regulation for public administration rather than external rulemaking.
Post Aruba NV — Post Aruba NV has added AI customs clearing to its customs processing and customer service systems. Once a customer emails an invoice, automated declaration handling speeds up clearance, so recipients get packages sooner. The change is part of a modernisation push replacing manual processes and building a sturdier information database for parcel tracking.
Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá (Consejería Distrital TIC) — Bogotá's District ICT Office has switched on an AI child protection system that follows more than 640,000 under-sixes individually to foresee vulnerability, violence included. It merges education, health and social-integration data, combines a predictive model with case management, and, after a Kennedy pilot with territorial teams, is spreading citywide in stages.
Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MinTIC) — MinTIC has rolled out updated security and privacy guidelines for artificial intelligence systems in Colombia, revising the Modelo de Seguridad y Privacidad de la Información (MSPI) under new AI governance in the public sector rules called Lineamientos de Seguridad y Privacidad de la Información para Sistemas de Inteligencia Artificial. These set technical, organisational and regulatory standards for building and maintaining AI tools inside government bodies.
Ministry of Education, Trinidad and Tobago — Trinidad and Tobago's education ministry launched AI digital textbooks in English and mathematics for Form One students on 21 April, on laptops issued after the Secondary Entrance Assessment. Pupils can quiz an AI avatar about schoolwork during and after school, and education minister Michael Dowlath expects savings of TT$1,000 to TT$1,500 for Form One and Two parents next year.
Judicial Education Institute of the Senior Courts of Belize — Judges and legal staff in Belize completed AI training for judges this April, run by the Judicial Education Institute of the Senior Courts. Chief Justice Louise Esther Blenman framed the workshop as part of modernising the judiciary, building capacity for artificial intelligence in the judiciary while preserving ethical standards.
Ministry of Science and Technology (Mincyt) — Venezuela's Ministry of Science and Technology (Mincyt) is offering a free, self-guided online AI course, 'Introducción a la Inteligencia Artificial: Machine Learning y Deep Learning', through Prisma, its new educational platform. Anyone can enrol at prisma.mincyt.gob.ve; lessons span AI history, deep learning, machine learning algorithms and ethics. Minister Gabriela Jiménez Ramírez unveiled this AI training on World Creativity and Innovation Day.
Fiscalía General de la República de El Salvador — El Salvador's Attorney General, Rodolfo Delgado, says his office is building a sovereign AI platform with WideLabs and NVIDIA Brasil for 24-hour AI criminal complaint intake. People will file by voice or text on WhatsApp or the web, and each complaint will be structured and sorted automatically, arriving analysis-ready with the prosecutor in charge.
Santamarina + Steta — Santamarina + Steta digested the customs reform with Harvey in days and phoned clients with preventive guidance before rivals read it, a Harvey case study recounts. After a six-month legal AI evaluation led by senior associate Iñigo García Muñoz, the firm says Harvey Vault cuts first-pass litigation review 30–40% and saves 6–10 hours per lawyer weekly.
Superintendencia de Electricidad y Combustibles (SEC) — Chile's electricity and fuels regulator, the SEC, uses AI import inspection to catch uncertified electrical products entering the country sooner. Reading import data, raising alerts and ranking controls by risk, the tools lifted the certified share from 88% to 95% and cut months-long detection times, the regulator says. An SEC AI assistant also answered over 60% of queries during electricity-subsidy applications.
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation (EZOTI) — Staff at Suriname's Ministry of Economic Affairs, Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation (EZOTI) received AI training for government staff, led by Abeleven Consulting. Sessions covered drafting text, condensing information, backing analysis and speeding paperwork, plus wider artificial intelligence workplace skills and responsible, purposeful use of the technology at work.
Rodland Real Estate — Rodland Real Estate has moved every agent onto Roro, a spoken-command AI real estate platform devised by founder Tim Rodland. Asked aloud, Roro returns median prices, sales volumes, price-per-square-foot and pricing shifts across Old Fort Bay, rebuilt daily from Bahamas Real Estate Association feeds. The brokerage AI system also opens client files, drafts compliance paperwork and handles diaries and correspondence; nobody outside the firm may sign in.
Government of El Salvador (DoctorSV) — President Nayib Bukele has extended DoctorSV, El Salvador's digital health platform, to chronic patients with kidney disease, hypertension or diabetes, announcing its second stage in a national broadcast. Each patient gets round-the-clock AI health agents monitoring them, and doctors receive patients with history, questionnaires and diagnostic suggestions already processed by the platform's AI.
Television Cubana — Television Cubana has fielded two AI-generated presenters, Ava and Chico, across trailers for the music show Cuerda Viva, appearing as announcers, or reading round-ups and listings. Cari Rojas, communication director of Television Cubana, dates Ava to a Cuerda Viva festival; Ana Rabasa, who runs the show, brought in Chico later. Felito Ruiz, the team's designer, assembled both on no-cost software of limited scope, and calls these virtual TV hosts wholly invented looks, resting on no prior pattern.
Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones — A Mexican federal push aims to make the state a builder, not a buyer, of AI systems, under Mexico AI policy set out by the Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones (ATDT) in its Plan Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial. Three pillars anchor it: ethics and law, homegrown talent and public software, and sovereign infrastructure for technological sovereignty. Officials envisage a future federal Artificial Intelligence law demanding openness, explainability, fair and proportionate use, human review and shared accountability — echoing broader national AI strategy debates elsewhere.
Turks and Caicos Islands Government — The Turks and Caicos Islands Government intends AI parliamentary transcription via an AI-assisted Hansard on a new legislature portal, turning spoken sittings into indexed text. Minister of Innovation, Technology and Energy E. Jay Saunders targets the 50th anniversary of Ministerial Government. Lawmakers and citizens gain easier lookup through machine-generated House minutes.
CEMACO — Guatemalan hardware, home and decoration chain CEMACO has launched MACO, an AI shopping assistant that helps customers choose purchases. Shoppers reach the virtual adviser through in-store digital kiosks, WhatsApp or the chain's website.
Corte Suprema de Justicia del Paraguay — Paraguay's Supreme Court has approved Resolution No. 12677, AI guidelines for the judiciary covering judges and staff. AI must support judicial staff without replacing human input in decisions, courts must report judicial AI use where rights may be affected, and UNESCO's Montevideo regional office gave technical cooperation.
Direction régionale des finances publiques de la Guyane — Direction générale des finances publiques in French Guiana now runs an internal AI writing tool, "langage clair" (plain language), simplifying taxpayer communications. Officers submit drafts, which the system rephrases into clearer wording before release, backing this AI-assisted tax communication push. It supports staff through the 2026 tax campaign, lifting plain-language government correspondence.
Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) — Fala.BR, Brazil's federal ombudsman platform run by CGU, now offers AI citizen service, automatically sorting complaints by reading each submission to determine its manifestation type. A planned upgrade will let the tool recommend the receiving body, helping automate complaint classification.
Codelco División El Teniente — Codelco's El Teniente division says AI workplace safety video analytics using 40 cameras has cut risky equipment–people interactions by 90% in monitored mine workshops. Specialists validate its automatic alerts; the system grew gradually from a workshop pilot in early 2024, and no independent evaluation is published.
Secretaría Distrital de Salud de Bogotá — Bogotá's health department runs Proyecto STOP, AI suicide risk detection that scans social media for patterns tied to depression, suicidal ideation and other mental-health risks. The system links people at risk to Línea 106, the department's free emotional-support line, for earlier prevention.
Conselho Administrativo de Recursos Fiscais (Carf) — Brazil's federal tax appeals council, Carf, published ordinances in the Official Gazette on 30 March creating Iara, an AI case-law search tool covering its rulings since 2012 to help councillors draft votes, plus generative AI rules. For 30 days access was restricted to councillors and curation staff in a pilot group; users must review outputs and officials remain accountable.
Receita Federal do Brasil — Brazil's Federal Revenue Service presented its AI policy for tax administration and customs, with ethical, legal and technical rules, at a UN meeting on 27 March. Final decisions and legal acts stay with civil servants, misuse is a disciplinary matter, mass surveillance, social scoring of citizens and subliminal manipulation are banned, and a curator monitors generative-AI errors and bias.
OAB São Paulo — The 2026 Report on the Impact of AI on Law, presented at the São Paulo bar association (OAB SP), puts frequent AI use among Brazilian lawyers at 77%, up from 55% a year earlier. Legal AI adoption was measured across more than 1,800 professionals nationwide.
Clearwater USVI Realty and Property Management — Clearwater USVI Realty and Property Management now claims a US Virgin Islands first: 24/7 AI sales agents in real estate, live on its website to greet visitors day and night. Instead of waiting for office hours, buyers chat with the bot, which records their needs and forwards full transcripts so human staff can pick up the conversation. The Christiansted firm paired this always-on client-intake bot with a fresh property app on the Apple Store, extending its reach across the St. Croix market.
Corte Suprema de Justicia / Organismo Judicial — A new 32-article rule confines AI use by judges in Guatemala to assistive, administrative roles only. Acuerdo de Presidencia 93-2026 bars the Corte Suprema de Justicia from letting algorithms generate rulings alone, leaving evidence weighing and verdicts strictly to magistrates under this judicial AI regulation.
Chacao municipality — Venezuela's Chacao municipality, Miranda state, runs AI robot dog patrols with two self-guided machines, Voltio and Turbo. Fitted with high-definition cameras and movement detectors, each streams live footage to the council's situational room, reads car number plates and spots stealing or vandalism of civic assets. Chacao calls this robotic patrol a Latin American municipal first.
Instituto Superior de la Judicatura de Panamá (ISJUP), Órgano Judicial — Panama's judicial training institute, the Instituto Superior de la Judicatura (ISJUP), launched ISJUP IA, an AI study assistant for judicial staff and legal professionals' ongoing training. Curriculum designers, teachers and students can use the virtual assistant to consult course content, settle legal questions and find study materials.
Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (MITIC) — MITIC joined CONACYT, UNESCO and the EU to embed AI fundamentals for the public sector in "Fundamentos de la Inteligencia Artificial para el sector público", readying officials from multiple agencies for ethical, strategic tech use. A fresh cohort joined this government AI training in May 2026.
Government of Bolivia — Bolivia's government has published an AI-generated government video reconstructing the police raid that took Uruguayan trafficker Sebastián Marset in Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The animation follows officers into two luxury properties at around 3 AM on the Friday of the arrest, clearing the house holding Marset's armed guards first. Generative AI produced the sequence, out within hours of the raid.
Sala de lo Constitucional, Corte Suprema de Justicia de El Salvador — El Salvador's Constitutional Chamber has set ethical and legal criteria for generative AI in public institutions and AI in the courts, ruling in unconstitutionality case 57-2025, sparked by a claim citizens drafted with AI tools. Everyone has the right to a human judge and a human legal representative, and judicial AI use must face strict legal and ethical controls and compulsory human oversight, it held.
Ministerio de Salud de Río Negro — Río Negro's provincial health ministry will pilot SAP-RN, a Google Gemini tool for AI emergency triage, for 90 days in Viedma and Cipolletti hospitals. The priority-care system will also track waiting times, resolved cases and 72-hour re-attendance to plan emergency staffing, with clinical judgement keeping the final word.
Sociaal Economische Raad (SER) Curaçao — The Social and Economic Council (SER) of Curaçao keeps generative AI in advisory work under safeguards fixed at master classes on March 19, 20 and 24 at the council's Ansinghstraat offices. Condensing long files, sorting material, polishing wording, matching documents and simplifying dense subjects go to the software; legal interpretation, weighing competing interests, institutional sensitivity and formal judgment do not. Three rules govern AI-assisted advice: humans answer finally, personal data is protected, and quality, integrity and verifiability hold. Director Raúl Henriquez: nothing displaces professional judgment or human responsibility.
Danish Meteorological Institute — Machine learning now drives ASIP (Automatic Sea Ice Products), DMI's (Danish Meteorological Institute) tool for AI-based sea ice charting across Greenlandic waters, built from satellite imagery. Royal Arctic Line, DanPilot Greenland and Arctic Command crews compared the automated output against hand-drawn charts through the season and reported quicker, more frequent refreshes than the older method allows. Accuracy still slips along coastlines and once melting begins, DMI notes, a gap explored at the 26 March 2026 review of the AI sea ice mapping trial.
Université des Antilles — Université des Antilles now offers a new AI diploma for professionals on its Fouillole campus in Guadeloupe: the DU IIAM (Diplôme Universitaire in Initiation à l'Intelligence Artificielle Appliquée aux Métiers). Teachers, jobseekers and working adults with a Bac+2 can join the evening course, running March to July 2026. Graduates become AI Referents or digital transformation officers — a workplace AI training qualification.
Chacao municipality (Alcaldía de Chacao) — Turbo and Voltio, two AI-powered robot dogs public safety patrols units, roam Chacao's squares in eastern Caracas after dark. Cameras and motion sensors relay live video to the command centre, helping staff spot odd movement and verify plates. Gustavo Duque called the AI-powered robotic patrol units support, not a stand-in, for police.
ChileCompra (Dirección de Compras y Contratación Pública) — Under Directiva de Contratación Pública N° 44/2026, Chile's ChileCompra agency guides public buyers toward safer AI procurement. Acquiring data science and artificial intelligence tools through Mercado Público now requires assessing dangers such as skewed algorithms, poor transparency and cybersecurity gaps, then building multidisciplinary teams, running ethical reviews and embedding audit clauses in contracts — advancing government artificial intelligence contracting.
Ministerio Público de Bolivia — Bolivia's Ministerio Público has run ARGO, the house-arrest arm of the ROMA–ARGO platform, since 10 March 2026, and AI house-arrest monitoring now reaches 275 people via a digital geofence, SkyFace facial recognition prompting random check-ins, and SONUS voice matching against the identity a judge authorised. Armando Corral Davezies, the Ministerio Público's technology director, puts the tally past 44,133 biometric check-ins on a platform needing no standing human oversight. In a Cochabamba field test the biometric supervision system caught a breach, georeferenced it and raised alerts inside three minutes.
IMSS-Bienestar — IMSS-Bienestar has opened the Hospital Oncológico para la Mujer in Mexico City, with AI mammography reading the images. Director general Alejandro Svarch Pérez set out fixed timings: appointment and linking of records to the AI mammograph on day zero, medical assessment, mammogram, ultrasound and further studies on day one, results by day 14 and treatment from day 30. A robotised pathology laboratory and an AI innovation centre offering assisted image processing complete the site.
Government of Bermuda — The Government of Bermuda will pilot an AI pension chatbot so staff answer pension queries faster and more accurately, with the Swiss-based non-profit Near Foundation as partner. Success would widen the AI-powered pension tool into a web tax portal plus calculator, letting Bermudians inspect records and transact with government systems. A government spokeswoman set out the plan in a press release issued after Premier David Burt attended NearCon in San Francisco on February 23 and 24.
Marval O'Farrell Mairal — Marval O'Farrell Mairal, with 67 partners and over 300 lawyers, runs agentic AI at a law firm inside its own processes, says Gustavo Giay, board chair since 9 December. The firm pioneered locally with Marvalia, a tool it built, and pairs that automation with commercial platforms.
Defensoria Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (DPRJ) — Rio de Janeiro's Public Defender's Office launched VIA, an AI legal drafting platform producing petitions, analyses and documents from defenders' prompts inside the case system, from first client contact to court filing. The office says service could run up to five times faster, with humans reviewing all output.
Cayman Islands Civil Service — The Cayman Islands Civil Service has completed a first Artificial Intelligence Policy (Version 1.0), Premier André Ebanks told Parliament, the Office of the Deputy Governor yet to sign off the Cayman Islands AI policy Government-wide. Risk management, governance, transparency, accountability and oversight duties span the service; procurement, piloting or deployment of any AI system awaits joint review of legal compliance, cybersecurity, data protection, architectural alignment and risk assessment. These AI governance rules carry enforcement and bar unapproved deployment, sensitive-data misuse, unlawful or harmful use and high-risk applications; Ebanks targets Q2 2027 for draft AI legislation.
Cayman Islands Government — Cayman Islands AI legislation should reach draft stage by Q2 2027, Premier André Ebanks told Parliament, previewing an AI legislative framework for public-sector AI use. A taskforce set up October 2025 within the Premier's office and the Ministry of Social Development and Innovation owes policy recommendations by end-May 2026 to shape the drafting. Ebanks also flagged a near-finished Civil Service AI Policy (v1.0), locking in mandatory governance, risk and oversight duties for government AI tools.
Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación — Argentina's Supreme Court has added AI case-law summaries to its advanced search of federal and national first- and second-instance judgments through an in-house viewer. Covering every LEX100 ruling, the plain-language texts may contain errors or biases and are no substitute for the ruling, the court warns.
Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Paraná (TCE-PR) — Paraná's state audit court, the TCE-PR, has rolled Microsoft 365 Copilot into its work at a staff launch, putting AI in public auditing alongside administrative and technical tasks. A training track follows, with basic AI literacy compulsory for every employee.
CHU de Martinique — CHU de Martinique now uses AI stroke thrombectomy support via RAPID ANGIO, its tool for AI-based cerebral scan analysis, in the interventional neuroradiology suite. During mechanical thrombectomy for ischaemic stroke, it reads scans fast, marks damaged zones and flags tissue worth saving. Roughly 900 stroke patients need hospital care in Martinique yearly.
Corte Suprema de Justicia (Supreme Court of Justice) — Human judgment cannot be delegated away, per new guidance from Costa Rica's Supreme Court of Justice, issued through its Superior Council on 20 February 2026 for generative AI in judicial work. The signer of any ruling bears full responsibility, states the circular 'Lineamientos básicos para el uso de la Inteligencia Artificial Generativa autorizada en el Poder Judicial', binding court staff, the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Public Defence and the Judicial Investigation Agency to treat such AI use in courts as support, not substitution. Personal data must be anonymised manually, and staff must disclose which AI tool was used and how.
Minera Chinalco Perú — Minera Chinalco Perú has finished rolling out its Integrated Operations Management Centre (GIO), an AI mine operations centre heavy on analytics that now runs the entire Toromocho copper mine production chain under a hybrid organisational model. Staff are being trained in analysis, automation and remote operation.
Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology (Mincyt) — Nine principles now anchor AI regulation Venezuela, among them humanist AI, equity, safety and environmental responsibility. This new AI ethics framework, unveiled by Venezuela's Ministry of Science and Technology, is called the Code of Ethics for the Development and Responsible Application of Artificial Intelligence, meant to steer tech use on ethical grounds. A related law has cleared its first National Assembly reading.
Sir Arthur Lewis Community College — Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC) debuted Arthur, an AI chatbot for student applications, for the 2026/2027 intake. Trained from SALCC's site and FAQs on OpenAI-compatible technology, it answers WhatsApp queries on programmes, entry requirements and fees. This AI admissions assistant cuts staff's routine manual replies.
Corte Suprema de Justicia (Sala Civil) — Colombia's Supreme Court has fined a lawyer 15 monthly minimum wages over AI-invented case citations, its first sanction for AI misuse, in Auto AC739-2026 of its Civil Chamber. His appeal cited rulings absent from official repositories; challenged, he supplied four further fictitious ones, and admitted using an AI tool.
Cayman Islands Department of Environment — The Cayman Islands Department of Environment now runs AI fish identification on the Nassau grouper aggregation off Little Cayman, shooting as many photographs as possible across three or four days for software that reads every marking. Croy McCoy, research manager at the Research and Assessment Unit, said postgraduates once tallied each grouper by eye on footage, hours of labour that facial recognition software absorbs while matching this year's arrivals against earlier ones. That evidence feeds the Grouper Moon Project, run with the Reef Environmental Education Foundation on an endangered species since 2001; a multi-agency crew returned in February 2026.
Cabinet of the President of Suriname — Georgio Mosis of AethiQs Netherlands ran an AI for policymakers session at Suriname's eGov hall, held by the Cabinet of the President and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation (EZOTI). Attendees explored artificial intelligence in public administration for gains in efficiency, transparency and accountability, plus ethical guardrails and tools like ChatGPT and Notion AI.
Hof van Justitie (Court of Justice of Suriname) — Nearly all 28 judges of Suriname's Hof van Justitie received responsible AI use in courts training, alongside RAIOs, lawyers, notaries and legal writers. AI-Advies & Training led the work with the Centrum voor Democratie en Rechtspleging (CDR) and Simone Koole, casting AI in the judicial chain as support for human judgment, not its replacement.
Superintendencia de Protección de Datos Personales — The Superintendence of Personal Data Protection (SPDP) issued Resolución No. SPDP-SPD-2026-0009-R: 'Norma General para la Garantía del Derecho de Protección de Datos Personales en el Uso de Sistemas de Inteligencia Artificial'. This Ecuador AI regulation binds data controllers and processors handling local personal data with AI, setting principles, obligations and control mechanisms. The data-protection rules for AI mandate impact assessments, risk management, security measures and audits, and let the SPDP audit systems and order corrective measures.
Superintendencia de Protección de Datos Personales — Ecuador now has binding AI data protection rules reaching providers abroad whose systems touch residents' personal data. The Superintendencia de Protección de Datos Personales (SPDP) issued Resolution SPDP-SPD-2026-0009-R under the Norma General para la Garantía del Derecho de Protección de Datos Personales en el Uso de Sistemas de Inteligencia Artificial, an AI regulation splitting duties among developers, deployers, distributors and implementers across a system's full life: risk checks, disclosure requirements, and human review of automated outcomes.
Dirección Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria (Dinavisa) — A new Strategic Work Unit now guides AI regulation in health surveillance at Paraguay's Dinavisa, formed under Resolution 047/2026. Officials there will produce guidelines, weigh potential hazards against opportunities, and float pilot schemes, keeping artificial intelligence in regulatory processes strictly advisory rather than a substitute for human decision-making.
Corte Suprema de Justicia de Colombia (Sala de Decisión de Tutelas) — A draft verdict was lodged in the digital file before trial's end, and the Supreme Court of Justice held the judge's AI use breached due process. Judicial AI limits permit such tools only exceptionally, as support, never instead of weighing proof or deciding; another court inherits the courtroom AI case.
Grenada6 Feb 2026Grenada General Hospital — Grenada General Hospital provides AI breast cancer screening via a Hologic 3D digital mammography system, the public healthcare system's first mammography service. Donated by US radiologist Dr Randy Becker and installed in January 2026, the unit combines 3D tomosynthesis with artificial intelligence detection tools. This AI-assisted mammography lets radiologists catch cancers sooner.
Receita Federal do Brasil (RFB) — An AI governance policy tax authority mandate now binds Brazil's Federal Revenue Service across a system's full life, from acquisition to retirement. Human review must approve each automated outcome; social scoring and mass surveillance are forbidden; a new "curator of generative AI" watches for hallucinations, bias and errors. This artificial intelligence policy for public administration took formal shape as the Artificial Intelligence Policy, published in the DOU.
Segundo Juzgado Civil de Concepción — Concepción's Second Civil Court fined a lawyer one UTM, the monthly tax unit, for an AI-assisted brief built on invented case law and bogus grounds, conduct that violated procedural good faith and professional ethics. He blamed a colleague's legal AI misuse and admitted skipping his own review.
Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria (SAT) — Guatemala's SAT will introduce AI tax filing through its FEL 3.0 electronic invoicing platform, generating pre-filled ISR (income tax) and IVA (value-added tax) declarations from 2026. SAT chief Werner Ovalle said the system enables risk management and automated cross-checking, building on FEL 2.0 analytics that already caught invoice splitting and anomalies. This AI-generated tax declarations layer extends existing detection tools rather than replacing them.
Ministry of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence — A new six-month pilot called the AI Academy gives roughly 100 government workers in Trinidad and Tobago structured AI training for public servants, starting 3 February 2026. A group of 10 will go further, prototyping two to three AI applications inside a protected testing sandbox. Behind the scheme sits the Ministry of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence, working alongside UNDP, UNICC and CAF to build AI skills development in government.
Gobernación del Atlántico — Atlántico's departmental government awarded its Intelligent Emergency and Security System (SIES) to put 414 AI video surveillance cameras, with facial recognition and automatic number-plate reading, in its municipalities. The Sabanalarga police command will watch the smart cameras centrally, piloting first at Santo Tomás's Batalla de Flores on 7 February.
Dirección del Parque Nacional Galápagos — Floreana's Smart Island system in the Galápagos has fed real-time AI wildlife monitoring to park rangers, researchers and technicians since 1 February 2026. Trained on thousands of photos from 125 camera traps and 48 wireless cameras, it recognises feral cats and rodents. The Galápagos National Park Directorate, which leads Floreana's restoration alongside the Jocotoco Foundation and Island Conservation, relies on it to pick and monitor habitats for returning species like giant tortoises.
Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — Bogotá's city government has upgraded Chatico, its generative AI citizen assistant, to answer residents and visitors on public services and municipal procedures more precisely and fluently. The virtual agent runs under the Bogotá Capital Digital strategy, managed by the District ICT Office and fed by several district agencies.
Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación and Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones — SECIHTI (Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación) and the ATDT (Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones) have issued a voluntary code on AI ethics in Mexico, grounded in the ten Principles of Chapultepec. Its formal name, Declaration of Ethics and Good Practices for the Use and Development of Artificial Intelligence, describes non-binding standards for designing, deploying and assessing AI systems across public institutions, private firms and civil society actors. The stated focus spans rights protection, inclusion, accountability and benefit to society, an AI governance approach that carries no legal force.
Nicaragua Ministry of Health — Central America's first public genetics facility opened on 28 January 2026 when Nicaragua's Ministry of Health inaugurated the National Genetics Centre "Blanca Segovia Sandino Aráuz" in Managua. Its opening phase runs on AI microscope genetic diagnosis, pairing a high-resolution microscope with embedded artificial intelligence to speed up karyotyping and spot chromosomal disorders and leukaemia locally, cases that once meant travelling abroad for care. Officials plan to broaden services later toward molecular biology and biochemical genetics, extending beyond this initial AI-assisted genomic analysis capability.
Municipalidad de Escobar — Escobar, in Buenos Aires province, says its Ethix AI procurement platform cut administrative times up to 98% and saved over 700 specialised technical hours from August to December 2025. Used in purchasing and supplies, the procurement assistant backed staff on operational queries, drafting, checks and analysis without altering procurement rules; no independent evaluation is published.
General Audit Chamber of St. Maarten — St. Maarten's General Audit Chamber launched Audit Intelligence, a GPT giving citizens natural-language access to verified public-sector data, advancing AI-driven government transparency. It covers budgeting, spending and oversight, sourced from the Audit Chamber, central bank, statistics bureau, World Bank and IMF: AI-powered public sector oversight in practice.
Harneys — Harneys is giving Harvey to every employee in every office, the first offshore legal AI rollout of that reach, after a head-to-head trial with Legora. Pilot lawyers voted for Harvey, senior knowledge manager Sharmila Rangasamy told Legal IT Insider. Support staff should gain too.
Agencia de Recaudación de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (ARBA) — Buenos Aires province's tax agency ARBA launched M2, AI property tax detection combining high-resolution satellite imagery, drone surveys and AI models to find undeclared buildings and improvements. Detection, analysis, notification and the taxpayer's reply share one digital environment, and ARBA says the automated monitoring greatly widens its capacity to regularise such cases.
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER) — Mexico's National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) has brought in AI imaging software to catch lung cancer and conditions such as pneumonia, COPD and tuberculosis earlier, the health ministry says. Its head of oncology says AI chest X-ray reading gives non-radiologist physicians automated support, with CT scans next.
Doctors Medical Centre — Doctors Medical Centre has begun AI MRI scanning for the public in Antigua ahead of a formal opening, driven by waits of several weeks elsewhere. The open MRI — described as the region's first, and built for patients who cannot tolerate an enclosed scanner — draws on artificial intelligence to sharpen image accuracy. Dr Joey John, medical director, said anyone may use the service, not solely people queuing through Mount St John's Medical Centre, with the backlog the priority. Qualified specialists staff the site, every machine is new rather than refurbished, and wider AI-enhanced diagnostic imaging is planned.
Narrative Research Bermuda — Narrative Research Bermuda puts weekly AI use at work at nearly six in ten employed residents, and half of residents use AI weekly privately. 78 per cent gave strongest agreement to regulating AI; 62 per cent fear for jobs, 58 per cent flag AI-related dangers and 57 per cent dread leaks of confidential or sensitive information, while 33 per cent voice excitement. Fieldwork ran 5 December 2025 to 4 January 2026 across 248 residents aged 18 upwards on its Bermuda Voice panel, where $75,000-plus earners showed heavier workplace AI adoption.
Cabinet de Maître Raphaël Lapin — Raphaël Lapin, a Guadeloupe bar lawyer, applies AI in legal practice via dedicated legal software for case-law research, document review and drafting. A paid legal database, not general-purpose chatbots, drives this AI legal software. Verification and legal reasoning stay the lawyer's job.
Servicio Nacional de Aduanas de Chile — Chile's customs service has started operating an AI cargo scanning truck at the Iquique International Terminal in Tarapacá. The scanner truck is meant to bolster regional checks against drug trafficking and smuggling.
Ministerio de Salud del Perú (Minsa) — Peru's health ministry will modernise radiology at the María Auxiliadora and Cayetano Heredia hospitals and Lima Norte network facilities with AI radiology diagnostic support for more than four million people. Health minister Luis Quiroz accepted the equipment from AstraZeneca Peru under a cooperation agreement, for faster remote breast diagnosis within the ministry's Digital Hospital.
ilik konsulentfirma & Grønlands Erhverv — A poll of local firms by ilik konsulentfirma and the Confederation of Greenland Industry (Grønlands Erhverv) puts business AI adoption in Greenland at 85%. Staff lean chiefly on ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral and Copilot for drafting copy, running analysis, and shaping marketing or social posts. Nearly all, 91%, expect their AI use in Greenlandic companies to grow further, yet thin knowledge and weak skills still stand as the top obstacle.
Ministerio de Salud de Panamá (Minsa) — Panama's Ministry of Health is piloting VANESSA, an AI dengue surveillance platform, for six months in San Miguelito. Phase one is a WhatsApp bot where residents report suspected dengue cases and mosquito breeding sites with location, photos and text, backed by regional health-promotion, epidemiology, environmental-sanitation and vector-control teams.
América Móvil — América Móvil has brought Harvey into its in-house legal work, so the telecoms group's lawyers review documents, compare material, research regulation and draft with it. Global General Counsel Alejandro Cantú presents corporate legal AI as lifting quality, consistency and efficiency.
Poder Judicial del Perú — Peru's Poder Judicial has put ChatBot CURIA, an AI case-law assistant, into the National Superior Court of Specialised Criminal Justice, the Superior Court of Justice of Lima and the Superior Court of Justice of Lima Norte. Built in-house by the Supreme Court's Fifth Transitional Chamber, the intelligent search tool covers over 500,000 fully integrated rulings, may reach 6 million jurisprudential records nationally, and answers judges and staff on legislation, case law and doctrine. Judge Ulises Yaya Zumaeta says the final decision-maker must corroborate every AI answer.
Grupo OPSA — An AI chatbot for election disinformation, Chekeabot, went live from Grupo OPSA's EH Verifica and LA PRENSA Verifica, resolving voter queries on ballot procedures during Honduras's 2025 elections. Staff wrote and vetted every answer rather than letting the system run unchecked. This reflects the group's push toward AI-assisted fact-checking alongside standard newsroom practice.
Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRC) / DNP / MinTIC / MinCiencias — Colombia now enforces ethics rules governing AI in Colombian public entities. The Commission for Communications Regulation (CRC), with the Presidency, MinTIC, MinCiencias and DNP, produced the Guía Ética para la Implementación, Desarrollo y Uso de Sistemas de Inteligencia Artificial en Entidades Públicas de Colombia, setting values for trustworthy public-sector AI, drawing on OECD, UNESCO, United Nations and Alan Turing Institute standards.
Gobernación de Antioquia — Antioquia's government will give 1,000 producers AI-powered agricultural assistance via its Agro100 pilot with the University of Antioquia and private-sector allies. Data capture, analytics and a chatbot-style helper will link farms to advice, coaching and online trading. Rural Colombia gains an entry into AI in agriculture.
Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información — MINTEL formalised Ecuador AI policy via Acuerdo Ministerial MINTEL-MINTEL-2025-0030, adopting the Estrategia para el Fomento del Desarrollo y Uso Ético y Responsable de la Inteligencia Artificial en el Ecuador (EFIA) as its binding annex. The accord took force upon publication in Registro Oficial Suplemento No. 206 on 19 January 2026, its sole clause ordering the strategy's issuance. EFIA promotes ethical, responsible AI development nationwide.
Grupo CISA — Grupo CISA now equips Metrobús supervisors with AI chatbots for transport supervisors, offering instant guidance on operating rules, insurer liability standards and internal transport protocols whenever incidents arise. Built by a recent IPN artificial intelligence engineering graduate, the software speeds sanction checks and incident fixes for staff running Mexico City's bus rapid transit operations. A fourth tool under construction will scan photographs to detect vehicle damage.
Anguilla House of Assembly — Anguilla's House of Assembly deployed parliamentary AI transcription via its Hansard AI Project, transforming sitting audio into searchable, downloadable PDFs matching classic Hansard formatting. A chat-box built into the AI Hansard system fields queries on Session Bills and members. The capital budget covers costs.
Prosegur Cash — AI cash logistics cut ATM paperwork 70% for Prosegur Cash in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, via optical character recognition, Big Data and AI models, erasing transcription errors. Francisco Galeano, Honduras and Nicaragua, reported operational metrics up 17%, security metrics up 11%.
De Surinaamsche Bank (DSB) — De Surinaamsche Bank (DSB) rolled out DSB Buddy, an AI banking chatbot answering client queries on offerings through WhatsApp at any hour. The Suriname lender's virtual banking assistant sits within a modernisation push with an entirely online personal loan, freshly introduced POS terminals and corporate prepaid cards.
YPF — YPF opened its Sala Integrada control room at Plaza Huincul carrying five AI agents in oil and gas operations, built to answer real-time technical questions from staff running the complex. The room joins the Real Time Intelligence Center with the plant's existing control room, marking Argentina's first such merger, so operators can optimise output using an AI-driven control room for industrial production. YPF's own projection puts the added margin above US$4 million within year one, a company estimate not yet independently audited.
Cuban National Assembly — An AI ethics commission now sits inside Cuba's General Law of Science, Technology and Innovation, covering artificial intelligence research oversight for the first time. The law further binds sector-specific policy to national development goals. Eight chapters and three complementary norms complete the package.
Mapfre Perú — Under one second: that is now the approval time for 60% of AI vehicle inspections at Mapfre Peru, down from a wait of up to five days under the old manual process. Computer vision and automated decision models inside the insurer's Control Expert platform drive the instant automated vehicle inspection approval. Mapfre credits the overhaul with reshaping its claims workflow and boosting customer satisfaction, though these are the company's own figures.
Fundación Clínica Shaio — Fundación Clínica Shaio now leads Colombia as the first hospital applying AI-assisted optical coherence tomography (OCT) in haemodynamics work. Scans reveal fine coronary detail, guiding staff on plaque composition and size ahead of stent placement. Better coronary imaging data means sharper treatment calls.
EDF Martinique — EDF Martinique applies AI for power grid diagnostics along a 40-year-old high-tension line running between Le Marigot and Le Lorrain, pinpointing its most vulnerable stretches for priority repair. Drones supplement this scan, catching faulty cables under the utility's PDV-HTA scheme, an AI-based power line maintenance approach built to lengthen the ageing grid's service life instead of a full rebuild.
Superintendencia de Protección de Datos Personales (SPDP) — Agentic AI in government reached Ecuador via AIxSPDP, built internally at the Superintendencia de Protección de Datos Personales (SPDP), marking a public authority's first such rollout nationally. Notification duties for data breaches came first, with human-supervised sanction procedures joining by August 2026.
C&A — C&A holds a national first: Brazil's inaugural AI personal shopper for fashion, built into its website and app. Shoppers converse with the tool, receiving outfit pairings matched to taste and purchase intent. A R$300m digital budget for 2025 backs this AI-powered styling assistant, alongside a hyper-personalised homepage and design tools for C&A's creative staff.
Tupi S.A. — AI in retail operations now covers marketing, HR and collections at Tupi, a Paraguayan e-commerce firm. Google Performance Max lifted results 50 per cent, hitting 300 per cent ROI on one push; hiring software sifts psychological tests and forms into a shortlist. A collections chatbot settles 80 per cent of queries and runs payments unattended, marking an AI-driven retail business shift.
Ministerio del Poder Popular para Ciencia y Tecnología — One unified patient file, nationwide: Venezuela's Historia Clínica Única (HCU) gives every public hospital access to an AI-powered health record system running on domestically engineered artificial intelligence. Its built-in assistant helps clinicians move faster through consultations, powering this unified medical record platform as adoption spreads.
Ministry of Health / Enmore Regional Hospital — Enmore Regional Hospital in Guyana has adopted an AI medical imaging diagnosis system to read X-rays, CT scans and ultrasounds. Minister Frank Anthony said the AI-assisted radiology tool flags within 14 seconds whether a scan is normal or shows a pathology, producing a preliminary reading radiologists then confirm.
Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) — El Salvador's Procuraduría General de la República introduced an AI virtual agent for public defenders on 11 December 2025, for staff handling child and adolescent cases. Running on the agency's own secure infrastructure, it merges national rules and case criteria to verify requirements and draft legal inputs faster, using artificial intelligence for legal support as part of the Procuraduría's modernisation drive.
Taquion Group / RESTART / iplan / GCBA — Taquion Group's Monitor Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial 2025 surveyed 1,301 adults and found personal AI adoption in Argentina outpacing workplace AI use: six in ten use AI tools daily, versus 43% whose employer has adopted it. Rollout stays rare at 6%; only 31% of firms run a digital transformation unit, and 5% require training.
Ministry of Education — 20,368 Grades 10 and 11 learners have joined Guyana's biggest online school under an AI-driven personalised learning in schools initiative, launched 5 December 2025. Educators guide live digital classes backed by a broad e-library, while artificial intelligence shapes lessons to fit each student. Reach now stretches past Guyana into several CARICOM neighbours.
Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange (TTSE) — TOBI (TTSE Online Bot Interface) covers trading activity, listings, corporate announcements, dividends and settlement procedures at the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange, round-the-clock. This AI chatbot for investors, a digital investor assistant, serves newcomers, brokers and listed firms on the exchange's website. It backs a wider digitalisation drive for capital-market infrastructure.
Servicio de Administración Tributaria — Fiscal risks now surface for Mexican taxpayers before they even file, under a new predictive audit pilot from Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT), the country's tax authority. Branded 'Auditorías Predictivas', this AI tax auditing effort draws on machine learning, big data and other artificial intelligence tools across upwards of 15 domestic and cross-border databases, spanning filings, CFDI digital invoices, banking activity, customs paperwork and social security records, to catch inconsistencies early and push warnings straight to taxpayers' Buzón Tributario inbox. Coverage so far centres on heavy CFDI issuers, online platform vendors, firms trading internationally and taxpayers with a risky compliance history — an early instance of AI-driven tax compliance monitoring in practice.
Congreso de la República de Guatemala — AI deepfake regulation Guatemala takes shape through Iniciativa 6657, the Ley de Protección Digital contra Contenidos Falsificados por Inteligencia Artificial (PRODIGI), filed by Julio Portillo of the CABAL bloc. It sets fines up to Q500 mil and three to six years' imprisonment for deepfake creators, requires an AI-generated content watermarking label plus 48-hour removal of flagged posts, and lets the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones fine platforms up to Q2 million. Congress has not passed it.
Presidencia de Uruguay — Decree 276/025 sets AI sandbox testing environments rules in Uruguay, letting the Council of Ministers oversee pilot data and AI schemes under sandbox pilot projects standards. Fairness, non-discrimination, openness and data protection apply, implementing Articles 74-75 of Law 20.212.
Deel — Roughly four-fifths of Chilean SMEs (80%) already embed AI in HR processes, a Deel and Criteria study of 300 firms shows. 92% plan broader use, led by attendance monitoring (29%), staff training (27%) and hiring (22%). 64% foresee raising budgets for AI-powered human resources management within 12 months.
Ridery — Panita, Ridery's AI assistant on WhatsApp, racked up 830,000 monthly messages and 40,000 chat-booked journeys before its 2 December debut. Built with domestic talent, it organises taxi rides, film tickets, coach fares, cargo jobs and everyday queries in colloquial Venezuelan Spanish. Since 26 November 2025, it stands as the nation's pioneering WhatsApp virtual assistant.
Arcor — Over 250,000 kiosks, grocery stores and self-service shops in Argentina gain AI-driven inventory management for small retailers via Tokin, Arcor's new AI-powered B2B retail platform. It scans 600-plus variables per outlet to customise stock suggestions, matches shops with Arcor's goods and 80-plus partner brands, then links them to official distributors for restocking.
Policía Nacional Civil (PNC) — Over 6,000 smartphones now carry El Salvador's ONI system, a mobile AI platform issued to National Civil Police officers and trainees under Plan Control Territorial Phase III. Acting as a modern police AI surveillance tool, it swaps out legacy radios for LTE-connected handsets that read identity papers and vehicle plates, check offender databases and single out suspected gang members, claiming above 40% precision. This AI policing platform's accuracy figure comes from the force itself and remains unverified.
Coppel — Coppel rewrites 123,000 product listings with FeedGen, a Google Vertex AI e-commerce tool, cutting an eight-day task to under five hours. The Mexican retailer's holiday-season revenue rose 27% and clicks 48%, gains attributed to automated catalogue optimisation. Figures are Coppel's own, unaudited.
Bahamas Industrial Tribunal — Bahamas Industrial Tribunal is trialling AI in judicial administration, using new software to speed legal research, draft judgment formats, and flag looming case deadlines, President Indira Demeritte-Francis confirmed. Chief Justice Ian Winder pushed for tougher safeguards to accompany this AI-assisted legal research drive.
Santa Casa BH — Santa Casa BH is now the first 100% public SUS hospital to deploy AI clinical decision support, having bought Elsevier's AI suite for physicians. The rollout bundles ClinicalKey for current literature, ClinicalKey AI for clinical questions from validated evidence, and Elsevier OrderSets to unify treatment protocols. As Brazil's busiest SUS provider, this brings AI-assisted medical diagnosis into public healthcare.
Hospital del Salvador — Emergency patients at Hospital del Salvador in Santiago will encounter PREMED Sapiens, a new AI pre-consultation emergency care tool from startup Medical Sapiens, now under trial. Upon arrival, the software reads reported symptoms, sorts cases by urgency and spots ones suited to remote telemedicine follow-up, a design meant to shrink queues and stop people walking out before treatment. This AI-based urgency sorting in hospital emergency departments is backed by Chile's Ministry of Health and Corfo through the Juégatela por la Innovación programme.
Banco de Guatemala (Banguat) — AVI, an AI virtual assistant economic data Guatemala tool from Banguat, sits inside Indicators GT, resolving plain-language queries across over 12 million financial records. It sketches charts instantly, stays live 24 hours daily, and toggles Spanish and English on any device — an AI-powered data-query tool for the public.
Universidad Autónoma del Perú — Peru's Universidad Autónoma del Perú has introduced URUK, an AI-powered virtual learning platform built and trained entirely in-house, without relying on an external vendor. Fed by the institution's own library holdings, the system delivers automatic summaries, indexes texts, answers queries instantly and converts readings into podcasts for study, applying the Cornell note-taking method. This puts AI-assisted studying tools at the centre of the university's academic strategy.
Godoy — Godoy struck Latin America's first firmwide Harvey deal for AI in legal practice, rolling it out to every team. Staff now use it for research, reviewing documents and clearing repetitive work, marking a regional milestone for AI-assisted legal work.
Curaçao Medical Center — Curaçao Medical Center (CMC) leads the Caribbean in AI cancer radiotherapy via MIM Software's Elekta One platform. The gap between a patient's CT scan and treatment start now shrinks, with better shielding for healthy organs during dosing. CMC joins early adopters such as the Netherlands Cancer Institute in radiotherapy treatment planning.
Grupo Boticário — Conversion rose 46% within a month of Grupo Boticário launching its AI shopping assistant on the O Boticário app, built on Amazon Bedrock Agents and Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4. Buyers using the retail chatbot paid 7.4% more per basket than those bypassing it.
Dirección Nacional de Contrataciones Públicas (DNCP) — Spotting irregular bids, forecasting risk, and fielding public queries via chatbot: Paraguay's National Directorate of Public Procurement (DNCP) now runs AI in government procurement. Klaus Pistilli cited this AI tender anomaly detection work at the AILA workshop.
Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) — Universidad de las Américas Puebla uses predictive AI to flag students at risk of dropping out, running on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and covering more than 35 thousand student, alumni and candidate records. It identifies those who miss re-enrolment deadlines and automatically triggers tailored outreach to re-engage them while they are still deciding whether to stay or leave. The tool is part of a wider digital transformation at the Mexican university, applying student attrition prediction before learners finalise that decision.
Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) with Agesic and ENAP — Uruguay's Inter-American Development Bank (BID), alongside Agesic and the National School of Public Administration (ENAP), has rolled out a generative AI training for public officials programme open to anyone working in government, whatever their function. Roughly seven hours long and hosted online through February 2026, the syllabus mixes basic AI theory with hands-on exercises, prompt engineering and risk evaluation. A digital certificate and BID Credential await those who complete it, reflecting a broader regional effort at AI skills training for civil servants.
Diario al Día (Santos Media Group) — Manual newsroom effort has been replaced by seconds-long automation at Diario al Día, a Dominican outlet: ChatGPT now handles data verification, source checking, grammar fixes and copy prep in a fresh AI in journalism setup. Clip-making sped up too, dropping from a prior 20 to 30 minutes to mere seconds through combined use of ChatGPT, HeyGen and ElevenLabs — an example of generative newsroom tools taking over hand-done work.
Vacampo — Uruguay's Vacampo built CropIA, an AI precision agriculture tool overseeing 15,000 hectares. Satellites feed crop status, harvest trends and nutrient math into forecasts, giving growers an evidence-driven route to farm choices via AI in farming.
Fundación Emprender Futuro — Free WhatsApp coaching for small business owners in Bolivia now runs through Arien, an AI assistant for entrepreneurs from Fundación Emprender Futuro and partner Banco de Crédito de Bolivia (BCP). Debuting at Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW 2025), it skips separate downloads and walks users through ChatGPT prompt techniques, cryptocurrency basics, QR payment setup, catalogue design and money-saving habits. Workers and founders alike can tap this AI-powered digital skills chatbot to build stronger tech and money management abilities.
Rímac Seguros — Rímac Seguros now finishes vehicle insurance claims in one minute flat, down from a 48-hour manual slog, via AI claims processing. Peru's biggest insurer, over 30% market share, built a chatbot: drivers snap photos, share video, log the incident, and instantly pull coverage, deductible and repair shop info. This AI agent went live in November 2025.
Megasuper — A first for Central America and the Caribbean: Toshiba's ELERA Produce Recognition now runs inside Megasuper stores in Costa Rica, bringing AI produce recognition in retail checkouts to the region. Lenses catch unbarcoded produce mid-scan, freeing shoppers from typing codes. The rollout extends Toshiba's MxP Self-Checkout kiosks, already beyond 10% of Megasuper's lanes — computer vision item identification at self-checkout, now part of daily grocery runs.
Royal Greenland — A computer vision AI for shrimp quality control, built by Royal Greenland with Trifork, cuts prawn inspection from 3-4 minutes to about 10 seconds per sample, at 95% accuracy on counting and recognition. Cameras judge colour and weight, replacing manual handling. Live at Cuxhaven, the AI-based prawn inspection system extends to Ilulissat, a Greenland site short of workers.
Puerto Rico Department of Education — Puerto Rico's Department of Education handed Microsoft 365 Copilot to 6,000 teachers and administrative staff in a 2025 rollout, feeding a broader push for AI in education, and 15,000 licences now run across the system. Staff lean on the tool, an AI teaching assistant, to draft lesson plans, build assessments, write grading rubrics and adjust materials for neurodivergent learners. Sessions to train personnel carry on into year-end.
Grupo Senda — Grupo Senda's Senda Citi division now runs AI-driven route optimisation for personnel transport in Mexico, hitting 98% punctuality. Dynamic routing, driver virtual assistants, smart safety cameras and internal AI agents lift efficiency by 5% and sharpen route planning by 8%. This AI in transport logistics backs 7,000 daily trips across 3,000 buses in four Mexican states.
Activo Banco Universal — Activo Banco Universal now runs round-the-clock AI customer service chatbots, built on natural language processing, fielding client queries 24/7. Tricky cases route straight to human executives, cutting wait times. Announced at IA Tech Day, the bank's next step adds chatbots grasping conversational context.
Agesic (with PNUD/UNDP) — Uruguay's Agesic and PNUD, the UN Development Programme, delivered AI training for government to public servants across national ministries over three days. Staff covered core concepts, ethical concerns and administration examples, then practised designing artificial intelligence for public administration tools directly. The work supports the country's wider national data and AI strategy.
Subsecretaría de Gobierno Digital, Provincia de Buenos Aires — Buenos Aires province has adopted a binding AI risk regulation, Resolution 9/2025, sorting every automated tool its agencies build, buy or run into one of four bands, unacceptable (banned) through to null, echoing the structure of the EU AI Act. Officials must complete algorithmic impact assessments before deploying anything high-risk, register systems in a new Provincial AI Registry, and flag AI clearly whenever residents interact with it. The move grounds Argentina's provincial public administration in this wider AI governance framework.
Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires — Argentina's Banco Provincia switched on PIA (Provincia Inteligencia Artificial) in November 2025, merging WhatsApp, website and social-media support into a single generative AI banking assistant for the Buenos Aires provincial lender. People asking about Cuenta DNI or Plazo Fijo accounts get tailored, conversational replies, while card controls, PIN resets and product lookups run non-stop with no staff needed. A once-fragmented helpdesk becomes one always-available AI virtual assistant for banking.
Nubank — Nubank's AI credit card limit increases in Brazil raised limits for some customers as its loan book grew 42% to US$30.4 billion in Q3 2025. Guilherme Lago said sharper credit analysis drove growth without matching risk. The AI-driven credit assessment also lifted revenue and profit.
Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Mendoza — Mendoza's city council enacted Ordenanza N° 4221/2025, a legal framework for AI in government use spanning municipal administration. Officials must guarantee algorithmic clarity, safeguard citizen data, keep automated tools explainable and preserve human review over machine-made decisions, while a new body, the Programa Municipal de Innovación con IA, takes shape inside the city's Comité Local de Inteligencia Artificial. Mendoza sits among the members of the Coalición de Ciudades por la Inteligencia Artificial en Argentina (CIIAR), which steers municipalities on artificial intelligence policy.
British Virgin Islands Tourist Board & Film Commission (BVITBFC) — British Virgin Islands Tourist Board & Film Commission now runs an AI trip planner on bvitourism.com via Mindtrip, an AI-powered travel platform. Type a question about restaurants, hotels, activities or ferries and get a tailored itinerary with maps and photos. Clive McCoy, Director of Tourism, says it spotlights small businesses and hidden gems islandwide.
Senado de Puerto Rico — 23-3: that margin let Puerto Rico's Senado pass House Bill 347 (PC 347), fixing the territory's first framework for AI policy in government agencies. PRITS — the Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service — wins power under amended Law/Ley 75-2019 to steer algorithmic tools across over 100 central bodies. Agencies need PRITS sign-off via an AI authorisation request before launching any automated decision-making tool; La Fortaleza reviews it next.
Agencia Espacial del Paraguay (AEP) — Small and medium growers in Paraguay gained a new AI in agriculture resource on 12 November 2025, when Paraguay Space Agency (AEP) unveiled Guaraní Insights: satellite readings on crop health and water stress from public imagery. Three phone-screen buttons unlock cloud-processed precision farming output built on a four-year archive, sharpening irrigation, pest alerts and harvest scheduling.
Saint Martin (French part)12 Nov 2025Collectivité de Saint-Martin — The Collectivité de Saint-Martin held its first AI training for civil servants with the Centre National de la Fonction Publique Territoriale (CNFPT), targeting administrative managers. Eric Stattner, AI researcher at the Université des Antilles, led the Grand Case Beach Club workshop on how artificial intelligence might reshape public services including risk anticipation, data management and policy development. More public-sector AI upskilling sessions are planned.
Super — 18 tools now sit inside an AI hub for advertising agencies built by Super, an independent regional advertising agency, covering in-house workflows, client work and third-party licensing. Influscan pulls together influencer-metric dashboards automatically, Visual Check flags grammar and design mistakes, and a Scoring Tool forecasts project results, backed by extras for scheduling, contract oversight and generative-AI prompting tips. Super thereby joins the wave of AI-powered marketing tools reshaping the sector.
Agendor — Agendor's Panorama of AI Use in B2B Sales in Brazil surveyed 1,031 professionals and found 82% expect AI in B2B sales to lift their output. Over half, 52.38%, predict machines will take over routine operational work within two years, whereas 30.26% instead picture the technology as a strategic partner guiding decisions rather than just a tool for machines taking over routine operational work.
Government of Mexico — An AI training centre in Mexico has opened with 10 mil Mexican students, launched by the Digital Transformation Agency and billed as the continent's biggest public AI and code school. Formally the Centro Público de Formación en Inteligencia Artificial, linked to 'Mexico: country of innovation', it offers 20 specialisms in AI, data, cloud, Java and cybersecurity, each with joint certification from Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle. Organisers project 25 mil graduates a year.
Supreme Court of The Bahamas — Lawyers appearing before The Bahamas' Supreme Court must now flag any generative AI in court proceedings, under Practice Direction No. 3 of 2025, issued 5 November 2025. The rule obliges them to check every fact and citation an AI tool produces and to stand fully behind whatever they file, regardless of how it was drafted. Three principles anchor the guidance: openness about AI use in court submissions, careful checking of outputs, and personal accountability for filings.
Magazine Luiza — Brazil's Magalu (Magazine Luiza) offers AI commerce via 'WhatsApp da Lu', fronted by virtual influencer Lu. Customers browse, select and pay inside the app, guided by a conversational shopping assistant on a multi-agent AI system. Roughly one million regular buyers have early access.
Grupo Financiero Banorte — Banorte's Tesorería Inteligente: a free AI treasury platform mining millions of transaction records for payment trends, customer profiles and salary benchmarks. SMEs, corporations and government entities get access at no charge, making AI-driven cash management standard, not a paid extra.
Mibanco — Mibanco, part of Grupo Credicorp and Peru's leading microfinance lender, has introduced AI conversational banking on WhatsApp, built with Amazon Web Services. Since launching by November 2025, the service has let customers open digital accounts, check balances and view product details in the chat; a February 2026 stage adds credit applications, QR payments and transfers. Mibanco aims for its generative AI banking channel to resolve 90% of queries, with only 10% passed to human agents.
ILIA (Latin American AI Index) / CEPAL — AI adoption in Honduras scored 27.39 of 100 on the 2025 Latin American AI Index (ILIA) — 17th of 19 nations, third-last, ahead only of Bolivia and Venezuela. CEPAL and Chile's CENIA built the ranking and called Honduras a 'moderate adopter' despite wide gaps in connectivity, data centres and policymaking. Its score for governance of artificial intelligence, the vision and institutional capacity category, was zero.
Superintendencia de Bancos (SIB) — Guatemala's Superintendencia de Bancos (SIB) has brought in AI regulation in banking through Resolución JM-98-2025, issued 30 October 2025, giving the country its first legal definition of artificial intelligence. Article 22 obliges banks and financial institutions to build governance structures — policies, procedures and human review — around decisions made by automated systems, under the broader Reglamento para la Administración del Riesgo Tecnológico. The Junta Monetaria's rule, replacing the 2021 framework, pulls Guatemala's banking sector toward global norms for AI-related risk management.
Impulso (Grupo RD Saúde) — Impulso, Grupo RD Saúde's retail media unit in Brazil, cut campaign turnaround from three days to roughly five minutes with generative AI in retail media ad production at scale. The AI-generated ads roll out in stages: e-commerce creatives first, then email marketing and push notifications.
Hospital Municipal de Agudos Leónidas Lucero de Bahía Blanca / ICIC (CONICET-UNS) — AI patient monitoring at Hospital Municipal de Bahía Blanca now uses a tool from ICIC (CONICET-UNS) to scan records for multiple chronic conditions, combining natural language processing with ICD-10 coding. It maps risk groups for AI chronic disease detection, guiding personalised treatment. Staff were trained, and its code is open access.
YPF — YPF teamed with Globant to roll out Digital Suppl.AI, a supply chain AI platform powering 46 agents across eight agentic solutions within the Argentine state energy firm. Conversational agent handling now covers purchasing and stock oversight at the company, retiring manual routines in favour of live strategic guidance. Wider deployment follows this opening stage, which centres on AI in procurement and inventory management.
Centro de Ingeniería para la Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica (CIDIT) — Doctors, scientists and pharma firms can now use two biomedical AI tools, CoFar and ProteIA, free of charge, courtesy of CIDIT, a Paraguayan research centre. CoFar predicts likely clashes and side effects when drugs are mixed, whereas ProteIA employs machine learning on protein interactions to further disease and treatment research — part of a wider AI-based biomedical research push.
Cámara de Senadores de Bolivia / AGETIC — AGETIC gains oversight of Bolivia AI regulation now that the Senate cleared Proyecto de Ley N° 178/2024-2025, the nation's first sweeping AI rulebook. Within 180 days a National AI Strategy must follow, alongside duties on transparency, security and human rights, plus bans on social scoring, warrantless mass facial recognition and subliminal manipulation. Titled "Promoción, Gestión y Uso de la Inteligencia Artificial," the bill awaits the Chamber of Deputies to finalise Bolivia's artificial intelligence governance framework.
Quatromanos — Quatromanos polled over a hundred Uruguayan reporters: 60% have relied on AI in journalism, 26% habitually and 37.5% occasionally. Leading uses were converting interview audio to text (41.7%), background research (20.8%) and brainstorming angles (13.5%). Most AI-assisted reporting sits in groundwork, not the writing.
Cámara de Senadores, Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional — The Cámara de Senadores passed Proyecto de Ley N° 178/2024-2025, 'Promoción, Gestión y Uso de la Inteligencia Artificial', a Bolivia AI regulation of 31 articles and two transitional provisions. The bill would create the Autoridad de Regulación de la Inteligencia Artificial (ARIA), ban seven practices including subliminal manipulation and mass facial recognition without a court order, and set duties for high-risk systems. AGETIC would gain powers to supervise and sanction AI (IA) use and would draft the Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial within 180 days. The proposed AI law still awaits final approval in the Cámara de Diputados.
Banco Nacional de Bolivia (BNB) — BNB (Banco Nacional de Bolivia) built AI in banking operations that freeze, release and suspend accounts under judicial orders with no manual steps, lowering mistakes and legal exposure. Felaban crowned its agentic AI tool, Orquestación de Agentes de IA, top AI Innovation for Banks entry at CLAB 2025, ahead of competitors tackling similar court-driven compliance work.
DRANE Guyane — DRANE Guyane, the region's academic digital directorate, has issued AI ground rules for schools in French Guiana, drawn from over 500 contributions gathered in a January to May 2025 consultation. Pupils gain unsupervised access to artificial intelligence tools only from Year 9 (4e) onward; younger students remain restricted. Data protection, transparency and environmental cost sit alongside pedagogy as core principles, and unauthorised generative AI use on homework counts as fraud.
Government of Saint Lucia — AI training public sector staff in Saint Lucia sampled Recraft.ai, Pixverse.ai and ClipChamp at a Taiwanese Embassy workshop pairing image processing with generative software. College, school and government delegates practised directly rather than just watching demonstrations. Each left equipped to coach colleagues on using these tools for lessons, paperwork and promotion.
Mercado Pago — More than 60 financial tasks now run through spoken or typed requests, thanks to a new AI voice assistant for banking that Mercado Pago rolled out across Brazil. Balance enquiries, Pix transfers, savings scheduling and expense sorting all fall under this virtual assistant for finance, built on proprietary technology from Mercado Livre and reaching the customer base in stages. The launch marks the fintech's debut in this category anywhere across Latin America.
Municipalidad de Guatemala — The Municipality of Guatemala City equipped 50 cameras with AI surveillance cameras at its C4 Monitoring Centre, paying Intelligent Camera Unification, Sociedad Anónima 89,849.76 quetzales over 12 months. Bundled crowd-counting tools spot dense gatherings, a function the vendor pitches for identifying protests or strikes — an AI crowd detection use worrying advocates, given Guatemala lacks any law protecting personal data or assembly rights.
CMPC — CMPC, the Chilean pulp and paper company, saves 13 minutes per maintenance note with voice recognition, part of a rollout of AI agents in manufacturing across mills in Chile and Brazil for industrial process automation. A linked tool turns two-hour planning reviews into ten minutes; at Santa Fe, production KPIs are watched live, with alerts sent to floor staff via WhatsApp or email.
Liberty Puerto Rico — At Liberty Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, an AI customer service telecom platform screens each invoice ahead of dispatch, holding precision at 99.9%. LiBi manages payments and requests, sensors detect internet glitches within two minutes, and chatbots back up phone support teams. Managers link these AI billing accuracy improvements to healthier NPS and churn nearly halved.
Ministerio de Administración Pública (MAP) / PNUD — UNDP research shows 49.7% of Dominican Republic public servants use AI during work hours, marking notable AI adoption in public sector roles, with 67.1% relying on it more than once weekly. Among respondents, 33.6% use these tools for public digital services—health chatbot queries, complaint escalation, legal and administrative tasks. This reflects rising AI use among government employees nationwide.
Boomerang Stream — Simón Bolívar returns as an AI-recreated podcast host on Boomerang Stream's "Un Casacho con Simón", pulling one million views within seven days. Actor Luis Bredow lends the performance, blended with digital post-production so this virtual interviewer built with AI can question guests from Bolivia's culinary, cultural and film scenes.
Banco Popular Dominicano — Banco Popular Dominicano, with agency Pagés BBDO, has rolled out GIA, billed as the Dominican Republic's first AI-generated finance influencer for digital channels. Seven months of research, design and training on real sociodemographic data shaped the virtual influencer in banking, which posts educational financial content on Instagram as @gialosabe_.
Siesa — Colombia's Siesa fields 49% of level-one technical support calls via an AI assistant on AWS. AI customer support here extends to engineering, where AI in customer support tools help staff write and test code; 20% of engineers are trained on them. Siesa's 10,000-plus clients span manufacturing, hospitality, retail and healthcare.
Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG) — El Salvador's Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG) runs AI crop monitoring through MIRA (Monitoreo Inteligente de la Red Agropecuaria), pairing Google satellite imagery with Google Cloud Platform processing to track crop health, flag droughts and floods, and estimate losses. Multispectral drones and IA models generate early warnings, directing response teams to the worst-hit zones. This farm monitoring system converts raw imagery into alerts.
Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador — Ecuador's Asamblea Nacional passed a Public Procurement Law reform, 80 votes to none opposed, embedding AI for contract oversight against irregularities, with alerts tied to the Comptroller's Office and Prosecutor's Office. Emergency deals and case files must stay traceable, while a new platform cross-checks AI-driven procurement monitoring data against the SRI, Civil Registry and Comptroller.
Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica — A ban on machine-drafted affidavits and witness statements now sits alongside mandatory disclosure duties under Practice Direction No. 1 of 2025, Bryan Sykes's new framework for generative AI in courts across Jamaica's Supreme, Revenue, High and Gun Court divisions. Lawyers and litigants who breach these terms face cost orders or contempt findings. Sykes presents the crackdown as reinforcing integrity rather than resisting judicial AI adoption.
Ministerio de Salud de El Salvador (Ministry of Health) — El Salvador's public hospitals now perform AI X-ray analysis in hospitals on every radiograph and lab test, Minister Francisco Alabi says. This AI-assisted radiograph screening flags abnormalities faster, catching respiratory, cardiac and oncological problems sooner. Doctors still make the final call — the tool aids diagnosis, not replaces it.
Sancor Seguros — Sancor Seguros built Clara in-house: the Argentine market's first conversational AI voice agent for insurance. It rings early-stage debtors, converses in plain language, hooks into core systems, and fires off WhatsApp payment links. Already live for affiliates, the AI-powered voice assistant in insurance is billed by the firm as a sector milestone.
Dirección General de Impuestos Internos (DGII) — Dirección General de Impuestos Internos (DGII) has rolled out AI tax fraud detection in the Dominican Republic, targeting irregular transactions, abnormal electronic invoice volumes and money-laundering risks flowing through its e-invoicing platform. Director Luis Valdez Veras unveiled the tool at the Segundo Congreso CICI 2025, explaining that it flags unusual risk patterns and will support growth of the agency's data centre alongside a non-relational database built to handle unstructured documents. The AI-driven revenue monitoring effort forms part of DGII's broader push to strengthen oversight of taxpayer activity.
Gobierno de Guanajuato — More than 8,000 public servants across Guanajuato completed the opening phase of generative AI training for public servants, run by the state's Innovation Institute alongside Microsoft, spanning 29 state agencies and all 46 municipalities. The focus was practical: applying AI-based decision-making tools for civil servants to daily work, from analysing data to improving how institutions handle routine processes.
Deel / Edelman DXI — Edelman DXI's research for Deel puts AI in HR adoption at 75 per cent among small and medium enterprises in Colombia. Payroll leads the use cases at 70 per cent, ahead of performance evaluation at 58 per cent, training and development at 57 per cent, and HR information systems at 52 per cent. Seven in ten SMEs plan to raise their HR automation spending.
Silvie's Industrial Solutions — Ten seconds is now the wait for an industrial parts match at Silvie's Industrial Solutions, thanks to its new AI-powered product selection agent, Silvie AI. Customers scan a code and the multilingual system replies 24/7, while managers gain visibility into buying trends that let seasoned staff shift away from routine searches toward higher-value client work. The launch signals wider adoption of AI-driven product search across Guyana's industrial retail sector.
Government of Guyana / Ministry of Health — Cutting drug spoilage and lifting region-wide efficiency: that's the goal behind Guyana's Materials Management Unit adopting AI-driven automation for medical supply chain management from the first quarter of 2026, handling AI-driven pharmaceutical distribution nationwide. President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali tied the plan to broader AI technologies goals for the country's healthcare system.
Alcaldía Gustavo A. Madero — AI video surveillance is live in Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City, via a new Intelligence Centre tracking camera feeds with facial recognition and vehicle- and person-counting tools. Officials cite 'violet totems' with AI cameras and a panic button giving police response within three minutes, part of broader AI-based public safety monitoring.
Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) — MTC now fields two AI virtual presenters, LucIA and MatIAs, explaining transport rules, infrastructure work and services to Peruvians. Speaking Spanish plus Quechua, Aimara and Awajún, the pair marks an AI-driven public communication push for wider reach. Staff keep their roles; the figures add to outreach.
Dirección de Redes Integradas de Salud (Diris) Lima Centro — Five portable AI X-ray TB diagnosis machines are now running across Lima clinics under Diris Lima Centro, Peru's health network, aiming to catch tuberculosis sooner. This AI-assisted tuberculosis screening reads each scan in 2 to 3 minutes, spotting fibrosis, nodules and other lung abnormalities alongside TB. Global Fund cash backs the rollout, live at five locations so far, among them San Juan de Lurigancho, site of 1,270 TB cases in 2025.
Multiplaza Bogotá — Colombia's first mall-based AI personal shopper has launched at Multiplaza Bogotá: MIA (Multiplaza Inteligencia Artificial), built with AI Findr. Shoppers get instant answers and tailored product picks through natural conversation — a retail AI shopping assistant setting a new benchmark for malls nationwide.
Government of Anguilla — The Government of Anguilla is drafting a national AI strategy and five-year implementation plan. Chief Information Officer John Lewis confirmed the draft is going to Cabinet for consideration and approval. It covers legislation, skills development, governance structures and a project-based rollout of AI across ministries.
Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MinTIC) — Free AI training for government workers launches in Colombia as MinTIC and the University of Cartagena fill 3,000 places on an 80-hour virtual diploma starting 6 October. Minister Carina Murcia called it central to making artificial intelligence a genuine driver of efficiency, transparency and better citizen services. The scheme ties into CONPES 4144, the country's broader AI policy framework, and reflects a semantic push toward wider public-sector adoption of an artificial intelligence skills programme for public servants.
Government of Argentina (Secretaría de Innovación, Ciencia y Tecnología) — MIA, Argentina's first AI agent for public services, comes from the Secretaría de Innovación, Ciencia y Tecnología with Botmaker and Meta, running on Meta's Llama 4 model. This government AI assistant guides entrepreneurs and small businesses through company registration, export paperwork and the Mi Argentina app's 26 million users. It sits inside TINA, the state's existing chatbot logging 1.5 million monthly conversations across 72 agencies.
Ministerio Público de la Provincia de Buenos Aires — Buenos Aires province's Procuración General has confined all generative AI public prosecutor's office activity to one channel: ChatIA, cleared under Resolution PG 1475/25. Five prosecutor and defender offices now rely on it to write, revise and shorten legal filings, rather than turning to any outside AI legal document drafting tool. Entry demands a signed ethics pledge, sits behind encryption, and every user's actions are logged.
Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (UNIMINUTO) — UNIMINUTO now runs two generative AI agents for AI in higher education across Colombia, reaching over 42,000 students and a thousand-plus teachers. MÍA mentors on emotional, academic and personal matters; LEO, an AI teaching assistant in 349 courses, reportedly cuts lesson-planning effort up to 70 per cent, unverified.
Hospital General Riobamba (IESS) — IESS, Ecuador's social security institute, has rolled out IA PROA at Hospital General Riobamba to flag, refine and track restricted antimicrobial use. The hospital calls it Latin America's first AI antibiotic stewardship system, an AI-driven antimicrobial resistance monitoring tool overseeing rational prescribing of broad-spectrum antibiotics.
Cetic.br — Generative AI in education has reached 70% adoption among Brazilian high schoolers online, per Cetic.br's TIC Educação survey, topped by ChatGPT and Gemini for homework research. Just 32% recall school guidance on safe, responsible use. The poll covered 7,476 students, 1,462 teachers and 945 managers across 1,023 schools nationwide.
Ânima Educação — Ânima Educação, Brazil's largest higher-education group, has launched IA.RA, an AI learning assistant on its Ulife platform. Built for AI in higher education, it produces summaries, questions and reading suggestions, checks assessments, and translates and transcribes Portuguese, English and Spanish. The AI-based teaching assistant personalises study and cuts workload.
Saint Lucia Tourism Authority — Saint Lucia Tourism Authority now runs AI tourism marketing to counter an 18% slide in UK arrivals after Virgin Atlantic and Tui axed their routes. Software sorts prospective travellers into segments such as wellness, heritage, adventure and honeymoon seekers, feeding tailored campaigns to each group. The push reflects an AI-driven visitor profiling effort aimed at rebuilding lost UK demand.
Onest SmartLogistics — Onest SmartLogistics slashed losses 30% and shrank inventory checks from 10 to 3 days by weaving drones and analytics into AI in logistics operations. Oracle databases and OpenAI power the shift, with a generative assistant, OnestIA, in the works for staff on ChatGPT. The move fits broader supply chain automation goals.
Gobierno de Venezuela — Schools and high schools across Venezuela will teach AI classes in schools from the 2025-2026 academic year, under a directive from President Nicolás Maduro. The plan links this new AI education in Venezuela to building homegrown, sovereign technology skills, preparing a future workforce of engineers and programmers.
FLENI — Buenos Aires neurology hospital FLENI is piloting Navian, bringing AI in brain surgery to about 20 procedures, projecting augmented-reality 3D reconstructions of tumours, veins and nerves onto patients. Three Argentine ITBA bioengineering graduates built the AI-assisted neurosurgery system for ordinary smartphones or AR glasses, costing a fraction of neuronavigators, which can top US$1 million.
Hospital General de Agudos Parmenio Piñero — Hospital Piñero's geriatrics unit in Buenos Aires is piloting AVIA (Algoritmo de Validación de Independencia y Autonomía), an AI predicting loss of autonomy in older patients with 75% sensitivity, across 200 patients. Fundación Cuidados de Salud built this predictive model for functional decline in ageing populations on the British ELSA database's 20 years of data, enabling early intervention.
Volta Redonda municipal government — Volta Redonda has become Rio de Janeiro state's first municipality to apply AI for imaging diagnostics, with São João Batista Hospital, Dr Nelson dos Santos Gonçalves Hospital and the Santo Agostinho emergency unit now feeding chest X-rays to HarpiAI for review. An automated radiology second opinion arrives in under five minutes, ahead of a planned expansion into mammography. Doctors keep final authority.
Belize Forest Department — The Belize Forest Department and the Ministry of Sustainable Development launched three tools for AI forest monitoring, developed with the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Each analyses satellite imagery: land use cover map, near-real-time fire monitoring system and national mangrove cover map spanning 2020 to 2024. Chief Forest Officer Wilbur Sabido says AI-assisted forest tracking sits within the National Forest Monitoring System.
Agrosuper — Reaching over 55 thousand small shops, minimarkets and butcheries nationwide, MAI (Modelo de Atención Inteligente) gives Agrosuper's field reps a data-driven answer to an old logistics puzzle: whom to call on next. Chile's largest food producer built the AI in retail sales optimisation engine by cross-referencing billing volume, buying patterns and each outlet's location, then ranking visit priority and frequency for AI-driven sales targeting for small retailers. Coverage and service quality have both climbed since, though only company-reported figures back that claim.
Cabinet of Trinidad and Tobago — A new Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence gives Trinidad and Tobago's Cabinet a single body for AI policy coordination. It handles cyber-incident response and keeps laws on AI regulation aligned across government departments.
Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros (Presidency of the Council of Ministers) — A new Peru AI regulation now governs artificial intelligence through Supreme Decree DS 115-2025-PCM, which puts AI Law 31814 into force with tiered rules matched to risk level. National authority status goes to the PCM's Secretariat of Government and Digital Transformation, while the freshly created National Centre for Digital Innovation and AI (CNIDIA) takes on implementation duties. Sectors deemed high-risk must satisfy demands for algorithmic audits, human oversight, transparency and data protection — together forming the wider AI governance framework now taking shape.
Altipal — A 45% cut to operating costs followed Altipal's launch of ORUS-brAInChat, an AI ecosystem for retail distribution built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Query turnaround at the Colombian distributor fell from 4.2 hours to minutes, this back-office AI tool automating finance, logistics, HR and project teams. Uptake hit 70%, lifting its Net Promoter Score to 78.
Ministry of Interior (Mininter) — Peru's Ministry of Interior is piloting AI video surveillance: 3,282 cameras from the National Police, municipal governments and private firms feed one artificial intelligence camera network. Live footage reaches a PNP command hub, still in soft-launch mode, flagging wanted people and vehicles under arrest warrants. Amper's build costs S/37 million.
Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros — Decreto Supremo N° 115-2025-PCM implements Ley N° 31814 through six titles and 36 articles. This Peru AI regulation governs AI systems throughout their lifecycle, requiring human oversight for high-risk systems in justice, finance, health, education and basic services. Under these AI rules, every public entity must adopt an institutional AI policy.
Oficina Nacional de Contabilidad Pública (ONCOP) — Venezuela's National Public Accounting Office (ONCOP) debuted Clara Contadori, an AI chatbot for public accounting, during festivities marking the agency's 25th anniversary on 15 September. Powered by natural language processing, the tool fields questions on the Public Accounting System, helps visitors navigate the ONCOP site, and shares round-the-clock guidance on available coaching and consulting offerings. As an AI-powered virtual assistant for government accounting services, it operates continuously without human staffing limits.
Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA) — ANIA is El Salvador's single AI compliance contact under the Law for the Promotion of Artificial Intelligence and Technologies, with a 12-month grace period sparing developers fines while joining the National Registry. This AI regulation binds automated tools deciding on health, finance, jobs, schooling, housing, transport or public services to warn those affected and allow challenges.
Government of Antigua and Barbuda — Gaston Browne says Antigua and Barbuda has drafted an AI regulation bill to guard against destructive misuse of the technology. Speaking on Point FM, the prime minister linked the draft law to fears that unchecked systems could cause harm, while stressing plans to tap AI gains for creative sectors and government services. The artificial intelligence legislation balances these dangers against economic opportunity.
SESI-SP — LEIA, an AI tutor in schools from SESI-SP on Microsoft Azure OpenAI, covers all 140 São Paulo state schools, roughly 36 mil students and 3 million-plus monthly interactions. It reshapes material around each learner's speed, interests and struggles beyond class time. Staff mine usage patterns to catch gaps and rework teaching, an AI-powered learning platform now central to instruction.
Mercado Libre and Samsung — GUT São Paulo applied generative AI in advertising for Samsung and Mercado Libre's Smart Week spot, machine-rendering image, video and music instead of filming. Jungle animals handle Samsung devices in the ad across Mexico, Brazil and Chile, the pair's third straight AI-made campaign.
Hospital Carlos Van Buren — Chile counts merely 47 geneticists serving over 19 million residents, prompting Hospital Carlos Van Buren in Valparaíso to trial DIAGEN-IA, an AI platform for paediatric genetic diagnosis built by Universidad Andrés Bello's ITiSB institute toward quicker paediatric genetic disease detection. Symptom entries yield ranked possible conditions with suggested tests. Nicole Nakousi heads the effort alongside neuropediatric staff.
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (MNHN) — The Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (MNHN) in La Paz, Bolivia, premiered Biopochito AI with 60 students from Colegio Ruso Boliviano, who used the AI science education app to spot biodegradable waste, assemble robots out of reused scrap and study how nature is protected. Built by the International Green Science Center for Latin America and the Caribbean (IGSCLAC) with the Andean Road Countries for Science and Technology (ARCST), this AI-powered science learning tool reframes difficult ecological and scientific ideas as play-based games and tasks for children and young people.
Senado de Puerto Rico — Custom GPT models were the focus for staff at the Senado de Puerto Rico, who each built their own tailored chatbot in an AI training for legislative staff held 27 August 2025. Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz backed the session, coordinated by Vice President Carmelo Ríos Santiago, titled 'Inteligencia Artificial más Inteligencia Emocional, crea tu GPT personalizado'. Employees practised generative AI for drafting emails, running social media, and making images and audio, reflecting broader interest in AI in legislative offices.
Think Work — AI adoption in Brazilian human resources has reached 78% of companies, Think Work found, staff using such tools daily. A quarter of HR workflows (24% average) run with AI tools in HR departments support. The poll drew 203 respondents, firms of varying size, mostly Southeast region, 69% management roles.
Ansa McAL Ltd — Trinidad and Tobago's Ansa McAL claims a first for the English-speaking Caribbean: the earliest large-scale enterprise running AI in human resources throughout its business, joining a generative AI assistant to its human capital management setup via SAP and HRIZONS. Workers can pose HR questions conversationally and get tailored study and career pointers, backing a plan to renew infrastructure and boost how staff experience an AI-driven HR platform.
Ramps Logistics — Three minutes flat: the time it now takes to quote, reserve and follow a cargo shipment moving from China, India, the US or Brazil, thanks to Ramps Logistics' new AI freight platform, CUBBY Cargo. Engineers built the system in Trinidad and Tobago, wiring it straight into WhatsApp so users chat their way through bookings instead of opening a separate website or app. That makes it, by the firm's account, the region's first AI-enabled cargo booking tool of its kind in the Caribbean.
Public Hospitals Authority — The Bahamas' Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) began an eight-week AI senior monitoring trial, Remember 2 (RM2.ai) Pilot Program, fitting around 100 older adults from the Geriatric Hospital and affiliated clinics with app-linked smartwatches. AI-driven elderly monitoring of vital signs, medication reminders and fall prevention aims to cut hospitalisations.
Second Collegiate Tribunal in Civil Matters of the Second Circuit — A milestone for Mexican federal courts: the Second Collegiate Tribunal in Civil Matters of the Second Circuit, sitting in Toluca, used AI calculation courts have not applied before to settle a procedural bond in an amparo proceeding, the first time a national federal bench has done so in an actual ruling. Magistrate Juan Jaime González Varas, deciding recurso de queja 212/2025, drew on government-sourced figures for real-estate worth, inflation and lending rates, reaching a reduced sum backed by clear reasoning rather than the amount initially fixed. Fresh guidance from the tribunal on judicial AI use now rests on four pillars: proportionality, protecting personal data, transparency in method, and keeping oversight with humans.
Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan — María V. Irizarry Centeno and Anissa Michelle Bonilla Irizarry face a $1,000 penalty from Judge Larissa N. Ortiz Modestti, who caught six bogus Supreme Court precedents fabricated within their filing through AI-generated fake legal citations. Officials at the Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan in Puerto Rico describe it as the territory's inaugural sanction targeting AI hallucinated case law inside legal proceedings. The Supreme Court will decide if additional punishment against the attorneys is merited.
Oncoclínicas and Casa de Saúde São José — A Brazilian AI lung cancer detection tool from Oncoclínicas and Casa de Saúde São José flags hidden nodules in every chest CT in Rio de Janeiro, whatever the exam's original reason. Twelve months, 6 mil scans, 150 nodules caught early, three tumours confirmed, turnaround under 24 hours. Salvador and Brasília are next for the AI cancer screening effort.
Plub — Plub, a Paraguayan grocery platform, runs AI-powered logistics for grocery delivery via Shipsy's transportation system, hitting 30-minute drop-offs. An order-clubbing engine adds AI-driven delivery routing, lifting rider output and cutting fuel use. Warehouse software targets 100% inventory accuracy and less waste, company-stated goals, not independently verified.
Dirección General de Impuestos Internos (DGII) — Four pillars anchor DGII's Innovation Lab: DIGI DGII, a virtual assistant answering taxpayer queries 24/7; pre-filled declarations; an upgraded Móvil DGII 3.0 app; and an API integration platform for outside systems. This AI in tax administration push aims to harness machine learning for data handling, part of a wider move toward AI tax services in the Dominican Republic.
Instituto Nacional Electoral — Mexico's National Electoral Institute (INE) has become the first public body in the country to formally regulate AI use, adopting a new framework for AI governance in Mexican elections plus a 2025-2026 Institutional Work Programme. The framework, formally titled "Lineamientos y principios para el desarrollo estratégico y uso regulado de la Inteligencia Artificial", sets legality, transparency, ethics and institutional efficiency as the principles guiding how the institute builds, deploys and supervises its AI systems. Its leadership described the move as pioneering AI regulation nationwide.
Corporación Unificada Nacional de Educación Superior (CUN) — CUN, with Google, is Colombia's first university centring AI in higher education on teaching and administration, part of wider AI adoption in higher education. Gemini, NotebookLM, Google Classroom and AppSheet span every course for a student body 80 per cent virtual.
Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales (DIAN) — Machine learning tax collection at Colombia's DIAN targets 8,440 debtors owing 2.2 trillion pesos combined, applying predictive scoring for debt recovery to rank cases by age and repayment likelihood. Officials steer scarce enforcement resources toward the strongest recovery bets. Acting director Luis Eduardo Llinás called it a decisively sharper, more targeted turn in collection strategy.
Banco de Occidente — Banco de Occidente, with AWS and Aval Digital Lab, built ARI (Intelligent Responses Assistant), an AI customer service banking tool checking PQRS replies against nine criteria. Sampling rose from 5% to 36% across 4,072 responses, review time fell to 1.3 minutes (17.3x faster), 95% compliance under this AI-assisted support process.
Ministerio Público (Chilean Public Prosecutor's Office) — Chile's Public Prosecutor's Office and the University of Chile built Fiscal HeredIA, an AI fugitive capture tool that lifted success rates from 1–3% to 40%. It has scanned nearly 800,000 pages and 3 million-plus audio files. Some 240 prosecutors nationwide now depend on this AI-assisted fugitive tracking.
Cámara de Aseguradores y Reaseguradores de la República Dominicana (CADOAR) — CADOAR (Cámara de Aseguradores y Reaseguradores de la República Dominicana) has launched Cadia, an AI assistant for insurance sector use, built on CrecerLab's Lisa platform. Cadia answers real-time information requests from insurers, brokers, regulators and the public, modernising access to insurance-sector data in the Dominican Republic. The rollout gives the industry a shared conversational AI channel for enquiries once handled manually.
Supermercados TaTa — A chatty grandmother persona powers IAIA, the generative AI retail assistant VML Uruguay built for Supermercados TaTa. It chats, fields queries and suggests goods, framing an AI shopping experience around warmth rather than pure transaction.
Dirección General de Registro Civil, Identificación y Cedulación — Asistente Virtual 119 now fields round-the-clock queries on identity cards, passports, births and marriages for Ecuador's Dirección General de Registro Civil, an AI virtual assistant for citizens reachable by phone or web, at home or overseas. This government AI chatbot pursues shorter queues and fewer go-betweens in state service delivery, running non-stop across 24 hours.
BBVA México — Touch-tone IVR menus are gone at BBVA México, swapped out for Blue, a generative AI assistant fielding customer calls in natural language across 63 million annual calls — an AI customer service in banking overhaul. The bank claims this generative AI virtual assistant for call centres picks up caller intent correctly over 90% of the time immediately, trimming resolution from four minutes down to under sixty seconds, though the numbers remain BBVA's own and independently unaudited.
Gold Fields — Gold Fields ran a 10-month AI safety pilot for mining at its Cerro Corona site in Cajamarca, now certified by Chile's CIPTEMIN. SafetyMind's computer vision platform scans existing cameras, flagging unsafe conditions in real time. This makes Gold Fields the first Latin American miner with an independently verified AI preventive safety system, under its Seguridad 4.0 strategy.
Senior Courts of Belize — Belize now regulates AI use in courtrooms through Practice Direction No. 18 of 2025, issued by the country's Senior Courts. The rules require checking machine-produced text for accuracy, flagging its role in filings, and keeping final decisions with people rather than software. Belize thus became one of the first Commonwealth Caribbean nations to set formal limits on generative AI within its justice system.
COSAPI — Peruvian builder COSAPI now screens, trains and evaluates job candidates through COSAPIA, an HR platform marking one of the earliest large-scale uses of AI in human resources recruitment nationwide. A WhatsApp chatbot answers queries, cross-checks paperwork against official databases, and fires off notifications and reports unattended — automated candidate screening replacing manual work.
Cavecom-e — Cavecom-e, the Venezuelan Chamber of Electronic Commerce, put the share of active online retailers using AI in e-commerce at 80%, mainly to lift sales and follow up with buyers before and after purchase. Richard Ujueta added that 40% overall are starting to add AI agents for social-commerce queries.
SHRM-PR and Aon — Society for Human Resource Management Puerto Rico chapter (SHRM-PR) and Aon's joint survey shows 54% of Puerto Rican businesses now run pilot projects testing AI adoption in Puerto Rico, yet just 4% have built structured programmes managing the technology's rollout. This gap between quick experimentation and formal AI pilot projects points to a business sector still working out how to scale early trials into lasting systems.
Sucroal — Sucroal, a chemical and biotechnology firm in Colombia's Valle del Cauca, uses AI document processing to clear each export file in ten seconds, down from seven minutes, saving roughly 40 hours monthly across 350 files. Beyond paperwork automation, AI starts over 50% of new software development; plant-floor computer vision counting and machine learning for Aspergillus niger strain improvement are in testing.
Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca — Argentina's Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries has validated an AI method for soybean variety identification, using high-definition image processing on seed samples for real-time analysis. It determines predominant varieties and their proportions, reinforcing traceability and Seed Law enforcement. Seed variety classification starts at the Central Seed Analysis Laboratory.
Royal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force — Over 300 CCTV cameras now anchor a nationwide watch network built by the Royal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF), spanning upwards of 20 locations across Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Officers lean on the setup's automated image analysis and number-plate recognition to spot suspicious vehicles fast and boost case-solving, a shift officials frame as headway for AI surveillance in policing via intelligent video analytics for law enforcement. Commissioner of Police Enville Williams praised the buildout as a transformative, force-multiplying asset at a closing event held at Questelles Police Station, marking the finish of the Enhancing Public Safety with Intelligent Video Analytics Project, carried out alongside Taiwan.
INDECOPI (National Institute for the Defence of Competition and Intellectual Property) — A 36% drop in case-handling time has followed INDECOPI's use of AI in consumer protection, at Peru's competition and intellectual property agency. The tool now handles automated rulings drafting for high-volume disputes, starting with real-estate complaints over delayed property handovers, cutting average time from 51.8 to 33.3 minutes per case. INDECOPI reckons wider use across all consumer-protection procedures could free 12,561 hours yearly, building on ethics rules issued under Resolution 062-2025-GEG/INDECOPI in May 2025.
iGovTT — iGovTT and TT Connect built Anansi, an AI digital assistant for government services now fielding queries from citizens of Trinidad and Tobago. Type a plain-language question on any device and the tool searches a 7,000-strong bank of frequently asked questions spanning over 30 ministries; anything unresolved reaches a human TT Connect agent instead, so AI-driven public service queries always get answered.
Bermuda Supreme Court — A landmark ruling has legitimised AI e-discovery: Bermuda's Supreme Court, in Fourworld Global Opportunities Fund Ltd v Enstar Group Limited, dismissed manual review as financially impractical for modern disputes. Justices found generative AI paired with forensic software sharply cuts disclosure costs and burden, among the earliest common law judgments to sanction such AI-assisted disclosure tools.
Supreme Court of the Turks and Caicos Islands — Practice Direction 1 of 2025 brings an AI regulation for courts to the Turks and Caicos Islands, binding lawyers, clerks and unrepresented parties under one Supreme Court rule. Drafting and research assisted by generative AI need checking and disclosure, but affidavits and witness statements stay off-limits. Privileged material must avoid public AI systems in favour of enterprise-grade platforms — court use of generative AI kept within firm limits.
Seguros Bolívar — Cinema audiences watching Jurassic World and F1 releases saw two adverts built with generative AI advertising for Seguros Bolívar's 'En Teoría' campaign. Rather than filming traditional scenes, the Colombian insurer generated virtual characters, backdrops and footage through Google Veo 3, an AI-generated advertising approach that trimmed over 100 million pesos from each spot's budget, by the company's own unverified count.
Comisión Presidencial de Gobierno Abierto y Electrónico (GAE) — GAE, Guatemala's Comisión Presidencial de Gobierno Abierto y Electrónico, is leading a participatory Guatemala AI strategy process, backed technically by UNDP, to shape the Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ENIA). Three phases structure it: Phase 1, AI Landscape Assessment (AILA), August-October 2025; Phase 2, co-building vision and priorities, March-May 2026; Phase 3, drafting roadmap, oversight rules and tracking mechanisms, July-October 2026. Guatemala's national AI policy remains unfinished.
Bayer México — Carlota, Bayer México's AI irrigation tool, sends WhatsApp irrigation advice to farmers in 16 Mexican states. This AI-powered irrigation advisory system uses satellite imagery, field sensors, predictive algorithms and big data; its 257-device network cut water use 30% on average, saving 14 million-plus cubic metres to date.
Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs — Garvey, an AI legal chatbot serving the Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, helps citizens decode statutes via the Jamaica Legal Information Portal (JLIP). Softengi, a European firm, built this AI-driven legal information access system for US$197,000, financed by the World Bank, pairing gazette notices with simplified wording. The goal: wider public grasp of law.
Congress of Colombia — Colombia's Congress toughened penalties for AI-enabled identity theft under Law 2502, amending Article 296 of the Criminal Code so artificial intelligence use turns identity fraud into an aggravating offence. The statute defines deepfakes and gives the government two years to draft an AI regulation policy against such fraud, covering detection tools for the Prosecutor's Office and Police.
Alcaldía de San Diego — Residents in San Diego, Carabobo state, can now message Dieguito, a new AI assistant for citizen services, through WhatsApp any hour of the day to flag broken street lights, potholes and security concerns. Mayor León Jurado Laurentín framed the tool as a move toward quicker, more contemporary handling of neighbourhood requests, confirming it is already running and open to the public. San Diego becomes, according to the mayor, the first municipal authority in Venezuela to roll out this kind of AI-powered virtual assistant for public services, built to speed up 24-hour response.
Expreso Brasilia — Fatigue, distraction and speeding trigger instant alerts across more than 500 buses in Expreso Brasilia's commercial and special-service fleet, fitted with ADAS and Driver Status Monitoring hardware under a new AI-based driver monitoring in transportation programme. Satellite tracking spans the same fleet at this major Colombian inter-departmental carrier, while a ChatBot and VoiceBot now field enquiries through its contact centre and terminal kiosks. These moves anchor a broader digital transformation drive built partly on driver fatigue detection systems.
Dirección General de Contrataciones Públicas (DGCP) — DGCP rolled out DataCompras-GPT, an AI procurement tool on ChatGPT, for queries on public tenders in the Dominican Republic. Suppliers can check bid counts, winning contractors and conditions, skipping manual searches. It joins GeoComprasRD and Data Mercado RD in Carlos Pimentel's digitalisation drive, an AI tool for public procurement now standard.
Paradise Mobile — Bermuda's Paradise Mobile built Skippy, an internal assistant giving staff instant answers on customer service, technical support and sales. Pari, its customer-facing counterpart, answers website visitors, part of the operator's push into agentic AI in telecommunications. Paradise Mobile brands itself among the earliest telecoms worldwide embracing this agentic AI for telecom operations model, an unverified claim.
Government of the Dominican Republic — Decree 357-25 from President Luis Abinader folds AI in public administration into a new HR platform for the Dominican Republic's civil service, the Sistema Integrado de Servicios Centrales de la Función Pública (SISC). Built-in algorithms will guide staffing choices, predictive analytics, training design and performance tracking for individual workers and institutions. The Ministry of Public Administration (MAP) will phase this automated civil-service workforce platform in across government bodies.
Grupo OPSA — MarIA (Módulo Autónomo de Revisión con Inteligencia Artificial) handles daily editing, proofreading and SEO at Grupo OPSA's EL HERALDO and La Prensa, a case of AI in journalism in Honduras. Honduran staff built it via WAN-IFRA's LATAM Newsroom AI Catalyst scheme, using each outlet's style rules. WAN-IFRA later ranked the group among Latin America's four most inventive media firms for this newsroom AI push.
Finnegans — Argentine IT firm Finnegans cut development times 29% with Finni, an in-house generative AI assistant built in under a month. Combining multiple language models, the workplace AI tool fields over 1,000 daily queries across all departments: customer service, HR, software development. Company figures since deployment show nearly 40% less non-technical work time.
Infobae — All 478 reporters at Infobae must now run their work through ScribNews, spanning six newsrooms in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Spain and Miami. This AI journalism tool packs 25 assistants that handle SEO tags, write captions, flag keywords, pull images and produce podcast audio. Leadership issued a top-down directive folding generative AI for news production into daily routine, leaving no option to opt out.
Jockey Plaza — Lima's Jockey Plaza now runs MIA, an AI virtual assistant for shopping malls, built with AIFINDR to answer visitor questions instantly via WhatsApp and the mall's site. Shoppers get store directions, tailored suggestions, and event or promotion updates from the chatbot. Management calls it the region's first mall with this kind of automated visitor guidance.
La República — A Colombian business daily let ChatGPT run its entire newsroom for one day, producing what its director calls an AI-generated newspaper edition unlike anything the country had seen before. Fernando Quijano, who leads La República, said the chatbot drafted, revised and ranked all 43 stories, 49 photographs and 15 infographics, plus columns, captions and headlines, while Gemini joined ChatGPT in generating the pictures. He described it as the first fully machine-assembled issue from any Ibero-American paper — a milestone for AI in journalism.
El País de Cali — 12 months of verified journalism now feed an AI chatbot news archive tool at El País de Cali, named "Pregúntale a El País", which lets readers pose questions and get replies linked back to the original stories. Engineers built this AI-powered news assistant by vectorising the paper's historical reporting and applying embeddings, creating the retrieval foundation behind it. Bosses intend to push the assistant beyond the web onto WhatsApp, and a sponsored-question advertising model is already taking shape.
Bradesco — Bradesco has launched Pix by voice on WhatsApp, driven by generative AI assistant BIA, enabling customers to move up to R$300 through spoken instructions or typed chat. A trial group of 1,000 clients in Brazil received early access, before a wider voice banking rollout scheduled for year-end.
Queen Ingrid's Hospital — Queen Ingrid's Hospital in Nuuk installed an AI-powered MRI scanner from GE HealthCare for sharper, quicker scans. This brings AI-assisted MRI scanning to Greenland's stretched healthcare system, letting it handle more patients despite thin local infrastructure. Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen can now run it remotely, sparing patients the 3,500-kilometre trip to Denmark.
Nemak — Nemak, Mexico's car parts maker, rolls out machine learning manufacturing tech via NORIS at 35 sites globally, spanning its García, Nuevo León plant. Sensors log 500-plus metrics per unit, letting onboard AI trace faults' origins and forecast trouble before breakdown, a predictive maintenance approach catching snags early.
Burson México — Decipher, a new tool from Burson México, ranks as the region's first cognitive AI system for message credibility prediction. It scans structured and unstructured data to spot reputational threats and gauge how far a message might spread before release, pushing communicators from firefighting into predictive communications strategy.
Ministry delegated for Artificial Intelligence and Digital, Government of France — The French government's Osez l'IA plan sets 2030 targets for AI adoption in businesses: 50% of very small businesses, 80% of SMEs and 100% of large groups. Awareness comes from 615 AI Ambassadors in 20 regions, alongside training for 15 million professionals by 2030 and company support such as Data AI diagnostics and AI Accelerators. Business AI uptake measures apply France-wide, Martinique included.
Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy & Logistics (Belize) — 34 officials, including Minister Michel Chebat and Dr. Leroy Almendarez, gained government leadership training via a two-day workshop jointly run by Belize's Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy & Logistics and the Belize Port Authority. Participants built hands-on capability for steering AI responsibly inside public bodies.
Aruba Tourism Authority (A.T.A.) — Jonas became the Caribbean region's pioneering AI HR assistant when A.T.A. built this digital HR support tool atop the AFAS Artificial Intelligence module for its Human Resources Department. Employees now receive round-the-clock, 24/7 answers covering workplace rules, freeing personnel to prioritise welfare and career growth over routine queries.
Organismo Judicial de Guatemala — For 87 mil 770 quetzales, Guatemala's Organismo Judicial (the Judicial Branch) acquired MEIA-Amparos, a tool built for AI amparo case analysis, contracting BDG Sociedad Anónima to deliver it. Powered by the Gemini API, it scans amparo filings to pull out core arguments and cited law, sketches case timelines, raises urgent-alert flags and drafts proposed rulings judges can review. A single web portal hosts these amparo review functions.
Despegar — Despegar's AI marketing campaign "De Vacas" delivers six films built 100% with generative tools for image, video and music, made with independent shop Super. The set airs on Meta and YouTube in Mexico to drive hotel bookings, an early case of AI-generated advertising.
Barbados Accreditation Council — New guidance from the Barbados Accreditation Council (BAC), the Guiding Principles for the Use of Emerging Technologies in Post-Secondary/Tertiary Education, sets rules for AI in post-secondary/tertiary education. Explainability and human intervention must underpin automated calls, with assessment resting mainly on human judgement. Fairness, data security and equitable access complete this early marker of AI adoption in tertiary education.
Government of Cuba — A national push for AI identity verification in Cuba began with the July 2025 debut of Soberanía, a unified digital services hub built by the Cuban government. Residents photograph themselves and their ID card inside the Mi Identidad app, feeding both images into facial-recognition software that checks their details before a digital identity is issued, all under watch from the Ministry of Interior's identification directorate. This machine-driven approach to confirming who's who started with 15 online offerings, from civil registry paperwork to replacement ID cards, and had drawn over 111,500 visits, 20,000 signed-up users and 8,200 verified digital identities by December 2025.
Tribunal Supremo Popular (Supreme Popular Court of Cuba) — Cuba's Supreme Popular Court now has judicial guidance on AI in judicial justice, penned by judge Yojanier Sierra Infante. A single limit governs everything: artificial intelligence stays a supporting aid within the court system, forbidden from standing in for the magistrate or judge's own verdict.
Policía Nacional de Paraguay — Nearly 1,100 AI-powered security cameras will go live across Asunción and Ciudad del Este, part of a deal Paraguay's National Police struck with South Korea. Commissioner Hernán Escobar described a system built to spot irregularities within footage on its own, prompting officers before problems escalate. Officials plan a two-stage rollout, targeting completion of the first stage by the end of 2025, forming an AI video surveillance system for both cities.
Banco de Crédito del Perú (BCP) — Banco de Crédito del Perú wired generative AI into Clara, its WhatsApp helper, a Peru banking chatbot leap dated July 2025. Clara reads urgency or frustration, catches a stolen-card alert needing swift handling, and untangles messy, open-ended loan or account questions with smoother, humanlike answers. BCP already topped Peru's lenders in running AI via phone banking, a generative AI banking assistant first this launch extends.
Instituto Nacional de Calidad (Inacal) — NTP-ISO/IEC 42001:2025 gives Peru its first technical standard for AI management systems, set by the National Institute of Quality (Inacal) under the Ministry of Production. Based on ISO/IEC 42001, it guides organisations in building and improving such a system, covering oversight, targets, hazard evaluation and impact review — Peru's new yardstick for artificial intelligence governance.
Poder Judicial de Chile (Chilean Judicial Branch) — Chile's Judicial Branch switched on an AI-powered legal document search tool, the Jurisprudential Search Engine, unlocking meaning-based lookup across more than 1.5 million rulings instead of keyword matching. An AI legal research tool now filters by court, commune, legal norms, case category and timeframe, pairing alerts with saved queries via Clave Única digital identity login. Ministers Adelita Ravanales and María Cristina Gajardo led the two-and-a-half-year build.
Consejo de la Magistratura de la Nación (Poder Judicial de la Nación) — Argentina's Consejo de la Magistratura has given formal backing to a judicial AI assistant, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4.1-nano, through Resolution 1486/2025 covering the federal judiciary, Poder Judicial de la Nación. Inside the case portal, Portal de Gestión de Causas, lawyers, experts and prosecutors will get help resolving everyday queries once Phase 1 begins testing on 29 August 2025. Staff serving the courts internally join later, in Phase 2, only after officials assess how that trial run performs — an early instance of generative AI reaching case-management systems at court level.
University of Cienfuegos / National Organisation of Collective Law Offices — Cienfuegos lawyers now trial Alic.IA, an AI legal assistant from University of Cienfuegos academics, ahead of expansion across Cuba. It works as both a chatbot for legal practice queries on Cuban criminal law and a system drafting over 60 document types, approved after debuting at the Abogacía 2025 congress in March, following a pilot since late 2024.
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) — Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos built BEA, an AI harassment support tool for spotting warning signs, learning rights and finding reporting channels. MediaLab, its research group, coded the assistant on ChatGPT, distributed via OpenAI's GPT Store. Short for Bienestar Estudiantil contra el Hostigamiento, BEA is among Peru's earliest campus uses of generative AI against harassment.
Ministry of Justice and Public Security — Brazil now has dedicated rules for AI in criminal investigations under Portaria 961, issued 30 June 2025 by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. Police at federal, state and municipal levels gain authority to apply such tools, though real-time facial-recognition scanning of the public is banned unless officers are hunting a missing person, protecting a crime victim, or facing an imminent threat. Pulling confidential records through automated systems for confidential records still demands a judge's sign-off.
Poder Judicial del Perú (Peruvian Judiciary) — Two Lima courthouses now run Mikuna IA, an AI child support platform built by Peru's Judicial Branch (Poder Judicial) and technology firm TIMIX Perú under the Superior Court. It scans paperwork like birth certificates automatically and drafts resolutions within seconds instead of manual review. This AI-powered pensión de alimentos case management push targets a heavy, sensitive backlog.
Ferrostaal Chile — Ferrostaal's Chile operation now uses AI recruitment for mining through Mila, an agent that screens candidates and sorts CVs for industrial vacancies. Fed on real CV data, it parses applications, spots gaps such as missing attachments and answers candidates straight away. Ferrostaal credits the deployment with a 60% drop in initial CV handling time and a jump of more than 40% in how many profiles reviewers get through each day, pointing to a broader shift toward automated candidate screening in heavy industry.
Banque de la République d'Haïti (BRH) — BRH, the Bank of the Republic of Haiti, now delivers AI skills in central banking coaching to managers, spanning artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and ethics. Governor Ronald Gabriel unveiled the plan at the Ayiti IA 2025 summit as a route to embed innovation within institutional culture, and a possible template for national tech upskilling policy.
Ministerio del Interior (Ministry of Interior, Uruguay) — Uruguay's Ministry of Interior now runs AI video analytics for homeless detection through its Unified Command Centre (CCU), stood up amid a June cold emergency. Behavioural-recognition software flags patterns like lingering or pavement sleeping, prompting operators to send police and arrange shelter transfers — an automated method for spotting rough sleepers instead of manual street checks.
Ceibal — Ceibal built AI lesson planning into its CREA learning platform, giving Uruguay's teachers a secure space to draft class materials with machine help. The feature, PowerBuddy, sits inside CREA and suggests activities and educational resources through AI-assisted content generation on request.
Agencia de Gobierno Electrónico y Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento (Agesic) — Uruguay AI policy takes shape as Agesic drafts legislation governing artificial intelligence use. The proposed law sets boundaries on permissible AI applications, prioritising citizens' rights protections, Daniel Mordecki told the Senate's Science, Innovation and Technology Committee. He called the effort consensus-driven, balancing rights safeguards against opportunities, reflecting AI governance in Uruguay.
Pluspetrol — Peru's Pluspetrol has finished testing EXR-2, an autonomous unit built for AI gas leak detection, at the Camisea consortium's Pisco fractionation site. Thermal imaging, precision sensors and smart navigation let it spot hot spots, pick up unusual noise and send live readings to a control room, plus build a 3D map for autonomous plant inspection.
Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico's Tribunal Supremo has written artificial intelligence into new Professional Conduct Rules, adding Rule 1.19 on technological competence and diligence to govern AI use in legal practice. Lawyers must grasp what AI tools can and cannot safely do, check machine-generated material with care, and never file AI-produced court documents unless a human has independently confirmed them first. Effective 1 January 2026, the measure makes Puerto Rico the first US jurisdiction with a freestanding ethics rule of this kind.
Fiscalía General del Estado de Guanajuato — AI photo ageing for missing persons underpins Guanajuato State Prosecutor's Office scheme "Rostros que no se olvidan" (Faces That Are Not Forgotten), blending forensic anthropology with age-progression tools claiming 94% accuracy. By June 2026 it had generated 248 renewed portraits, prompting four other Mexican states to request the same AI age-progression algorithms. That 94% figure is the office's own claim, unverified independently.
Banco Nacional de Costa Rica — Banco Nacional, Costa Rica's largest state-owned lender, adopted AI cybersecurity tools between June 2024 and June 2025, sharpening detection of digital intrusions and speeding up its reaction to them. That upgrade helped judges award the bank its fifth Bank of the Year title, calling the AI-driven threat detection one of the strongest factors behind the win.
Aseguradora General — Aseguradora General added voice-message support to Sofía, its AI insurance quoting assistant in Guatemala, joining the existing WhatsApp and text channels in version 5.0. Customers now speak natural-language requests to get auto and medical expense insurance quotes in under a minute. This virtual insurance assistant has handled over 60,000 auto quotes and 5,000-plus medical quotes since debuting in 2024 as the country's first such tool.
KIA México — AI factory inspection robot Spot, built by Boston Dynamics, patrols KIA México's Pesquería plant in Nuevo León unsupervised, starting each day at 6am with nobody present. Heat and compressed-air-leak sensors feed data back while it maps the facility into a digital twin, on a line producing 64 vehicles per hour. Two further Boston Dynamics machines, the Stretch logistics unit and Atlas humanoid, appeared on-site for autonomous robotic inspection manufacturing trials, still under evaluation.
Urgent Care Medical Centre — Urgent Care Medical Centre is trialling AI chest pain diagnosis and forecasting software from Scopium AI. Early-stage checks started at St George, with full clinical evaluation in July. Davidson Ishmael, Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, views the AI cardiac screening as a Caribbean first for Barbados.
Organización Soriana — Soriana, Mexico's supermarket chain, rebuilt 40-year-old mascot Julio Regalado with generative AI, the country's first retailer running an AI-powered brand influencer. It replies to TikTok shoppers instantly with personalised messages, an AI-generated promotional character, not a scripted ad.
Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique — A decree signed 4 September 2025, revising the earlier 8 December 2017 text, gave France's Conseil national de l'IA et du Numérique (CIAN) its legal footing on AI policy France pursues, replacing the Conseil national du numérique as the country's artificial intelligence advisory body. Clara Chappaz, minister delegate, leads the panel, tasked with examining how digitalisation affects society, the economy and territories such as French Guiana.
Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) — The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) Tobago Division trained 20 officers in a one-day pilot, 'AI For Law Enforcement', at Tobago Information Technology Limited, Signal Hill. This AI literacy training for police, run with GNC Labs and sponsored by Jade Monkey Bar and Casino, covered spotting deepfakes and applying AI tools. Policing AI upskilling sits within the division's operations plan.
Banco do Brasil — Banco do Brasil has built an AI personal finance manager into its Minhas Finanças Multibanco app, giving retail customers tailored credit line and investment tips from their financial profile. It claims to be Brazil's first bank offering AI-driven investment suggestions personalised this way.
Adyen — More than half of Brazil's consumers, 52%, leaned on an AI shopping assistant such as ChatGPT during the past 12 months, Adyen's Retail Report 2025 reveals, a figure up 52% from the prior year. Of that share, 74% credited the assistant with steering what they bought when shopping with AI. Researchers polled 2,000 consumers alongside 500 retailers nationwide.
Hospital Universitario Docente Vladimir y Ilich Lenin — Hospital Universitario Docente Vladimir y Ilich Lenin in Holguín runs AI hospital administration for governance choices: tracking supply stocks, scheduling admissions and shifts, flagging vulnerable patients via dashboards that shorten waits. Cardiologist José Leandro Pérez Guerrero told ACN this mirrors AI adoption in Cuban hospitals.
Banco del Austro — Instant credit approvals, once a two-hour wait, are now standard at Banco del Austro after it rolled out a new IBM data platform for storage, integration, governance and lineage. Data engineer output has climbed, readying the Ecuadorian lender for broader artificial intelligence in banking through this AI-driven data platform.
Banco Galicia — Banco Galicia has embedded AI in HR processes across the organisation, from drafting job descriptions and setting performance goals to running interviews and internal learning programmes. According to the bank's head of HRBP and Talent, the tools help pinpoint skills gaps and guide employee development tailored to each role. This AI-driven talent management approach links recruitment, training and workforce planning under one system.
Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual (Indecopi) — Peru's Indecopi bound itself to human oversight of every algorithm it builds, adopting new rules on AI regulation in public agencies. Resolución N.° 000062-2025-GEG/INDECOPI enacted the Lineamientos para el Uso Ético de la Inteligencia Artificial, setting transparency, security, fairness, privacy and accountability duties across its AI governance.
Hospital María Auxiliadora — Sixty seconds or less: that is the new benchmark at Hospital María Auxiliadora in Lima, where an AI lung cancer detection tool now scans chest X-rays for signs of pulmonary neoplasia. Built through a partnership between Peru's Ministry of Health (MINSA), AstraZeneca and QURE.AI, the software drafts abnormality reports on its own, cutting the wait for early screening of lung and other pulmonary conditions. Clinicians gain a faster first read, powered by this AI-assisted chest X-ray screening approach.
Turks and Caicos Islands Government Ministry of Innovation, Technology and Energy — Turks and Caicos Islands' Ministry of Innovation, Technology and Energy has launched five AI pilot projects in government services via the Microsoft AI Copilot Masterclass: gov.tc chatbots plus AI upgrades for Border Force, Land Registry, Registrar General and Citizenship and Naturalisation Databases, with a sixth Judiciary scheme under AI-powered public sector modernisation review. It sits within an $8.37 million transformation budget slice.
Turks and Caicos Islands Ministry of Education — 1,000 pupils in Turks and Caicos Islands get free access to the Eagle Eye AI Tutor and Sustainable Stock Market Game AI Platform, part of AI tutoring for secondary school students. WizdomCRM Caribbean Limited built the six-month programme, covering money handling, investing and saving through an artificial intelligence financial literacy programme. TCI is the fifth Caribbean territory to join.
Contraloría General de la República — Colombia's Contraloría General de la República is deploying AI in public procurement to spot fraud before contracts get approved. The machine-learning system for contract oversight, developed alongside the University of Antioquia, pulls from over 13,000 data sources via the DIARI unit, spanning 2014-to-2025 contracting records and fiscal sanctions history.
Massy Holdings Ltd — Massy Holdings runs an AI store management system on ChatGPT, letting Caribbean managers query stock, demand and sales trends instantly, cutting waste and lifting efficiency across 60-plus stores. Massy also counts over 100 self-checkout machines group-wide, part of the same AI-powered retail operations push, per its own unverified figures.
Apiux — Interview slots now sit in candidates' own hands as Apiux rolls out PoolRecruitIA's avatars for AI in IT recruitment across Chile. Automated note-taking, ATS updates and unbiased scoring trim evaluation time over 80%, pushing manual AI-driven candidate screening out of Apiux's pipeline.
Transbank — Eugenia, Transbank's new AI assistant for internal operations, now handles staff questions on time off, brand rules and compliance without waiting for a human reply. The Chilean payments firm built the tool on AWS language models as proof that automation can take hold inside everyday corporate workflows. Sebastián Robles, who leads AI at Transbank, said the goal was giving staff real systems to actually use, not just pilots. That practical rollout of an AI workplace assistant is now held up as a model for other Chilean businesses.
AT&T México — Wim gives AT&T México a mobile brand built on AI-powered customer service chat with no human agents. AT&T Ask, its internal generative AI tool, serves finance and strategy staff. Both back AT&T's 'digital telco' push on AWS cloud infrastructure via conversational AI customer service.
dentsu México — Playground, an AI advertising platform first built by Merkle LATAM in Colombia, has moved from pilot to daily use across dentsu México's agency network in Mexico. Staff there now rely on it to automate reporting and speed up campaign optimisation, drawing on eye tracking to assess creative work, modules for search optimisation, and a bespoke chatbot trained on 60,000 real consumer conversations. That scale of training data grounds the chatbot's responses in actual buyer language rather than scripted assumptions.
Nitrofert — Nitrofert has released IngeDati, an AI in agriculture tool giving Colombian farmers crop-specific nutrition guidance across eight crops: coffee and rice, potato and banana, sugar cane, oil palm, citrus, plus pasture. A transformer-based architecture drives the system, built on recorded fieldwork and agronomic expertise, and farmers reach it via browser on ordinary phones rather than special equipment. Field tests under real growing conditions preceded launch, making this agricultural AI assistant a stand-in for in-person technical visits.
Procuración General de la Nación (Federal Prosecutor's Office) — Argentina's Procuración General de la Nación (Federal Prosecutor's Office) launched an AI strategy programme, the Programa de Inteligencia Artificial del Ministerio Público Fiscal, under Resolution PGN 14/25. Duties span ethical and technical guidance, project review and staff training, an AI governance framework referencing the EU AI Act, the Council of Europe's Framework Convention and UNESCO recommendations.
Ministerio de Justicia / JUFEJUS / UBA-IALAB — 5,000 members of Argentina's judiciary gave 81% approval to the Programa Piloto de Uso Estratégico y Responsable de IA Generativa en la Justicia, the Ministry of Justice's UBA-IALAB-run trial of AI in Argentina's judiciary. Drafting led the 3,000 prompts across 1,007 test bases (three each), at 30.7%, ahead of analysing information (17.3%) and case-law search (11.7%). Courts in Mendoza, San Juan, Tierra del Fuego, Misiones, Tucumán, Buenos Aires and CABA took part in this use of generative AI in the justice sector.
Terminal 6 — Deep learning software from Spanish startup AllRead now reads railcar codes automatically at Terminal 6 (T6), a grain terminal in Santa Fe. Built with support from Argentine consultancy Generatica, the AI railcar identification tool scans wagons as they arrive, cutting out manual registration once needed for eight to ten trains daily, each hauling roughly 50 cars, at a site moving more than 80,000 tonnes of raw materials every day. Real-time, code-scanning technology like this had removed a longstanding bottleneck in port logistics.
Terpel Ecuador — Terpel Ecuador now runs TBot, an AI customer service chatbot on WhatsApp Business, across its fuel stations, Altoque convenience stores and Voltex charging points. This AI-powered digital copilot replaces manual queries by sharing site locations, promotions and payment methods, plus collecting feedback.
Suministros & Alimentos — Suministros & Alimentos now relies on ToolsGroup's platform for AI demand forecasting in food logistics, doing live shipment tracking and stock tuning across Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Franchise clients such as McDonald's benefit from the setup, unveiled at Gartner's Supply Chain Symposium as a case study.
Senate of Paraguay — Senator Basilio Núñez wants the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies (MITIC) enforcing fresh Paraguay AI regulation under a bill that would also launch a National Registry of AI Systems. Fairness, openness and privacy guide its draft code, grading machine-learning tools by hazard tier along lines the European Union already follows. Lawmakers keep reviewing the text.
Government of Bermuda, Department of Planning — Bermuda has hired an AI specialist for AI in government services, tackling the Department of Planning's permit backlog first. David Burt confirmed the hire, aimed at catching incomplete filings and steering applicants toward correct paperwork as an AI specialist in public administration. Missing documents are the top delay cause.
Government of Colombia (MinTIC/MinCiencias) — MinTIC and MinCiencias filed an AI regulation framework with Congress: risk tiers for AI systems, plus a National AI Authority inside MinCiencias. Julián Molina said it keeps machines within "parameters for human dignity," leaving room for innovation, built on OECD, UNESCO and EU governance standards.
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura — Compañía de Minas Buenaventura is rolling its self-built AI mining software, YupAI, out to two further sites, El Brocal and Uchucchacua, having already proven the tool at San Gabriel. Its name comes from the Quechua verb for 'to count', and it applies open-source algorithms toward AI-driven resource estimation, projecting key variables with no need for new drilling or laboratory work. That earlier deployment alone modelled 390 drill holes absent chemical assays, sparing roughly six months plus the extra expense.
Poder Judicial de Chile — Chile's Judicial Branch is bringing AI transcription in labour courts to the Labour Court of Arica, the first labour tribunal nationally to gain the capability, via the Justicia Ágil, Transparente y Automatizada (Justa) project. Minutes from hearings get produced without manual input, trimming paperwork and speeding rulings. Mulchén and Antofagasta ran earlier trials of automated minute-taking, but Arica marks Justa's debut in a labour setting.
Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology — Belize's Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology unveiled three AI teaching assistants on the 501 Academy portal at the country's first National EdTech Summit. Avatar Buddy built the set: 501 Historian, covering Belizean heritage material; 501 Teacher Assistant, for lesson planning; and Kriol 501 Historian, replying in Kriol and English. The AI buddies for education target teachers' paperwork and lesson quality.
Government of Bermuda — Bermuda now ranks first worldwide, its government launching the Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship's Supercharged Programme for Bermudians. Building atop the earlier Fintech Training Programme, this feeds a wider push preparing citizens for an AI-driven economy through national AI workforce training, anchored in AI skills training as a top priority.
Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, International Business en Internationale Samenwerking (BIBIS) — Suriname's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation (BIBIS) deployed an AI chatbot for visa applications on 30 April 2025, teaming up with VFS Global to build a fresh e-visa platform around it. This automated visa assistant instantly resolves traveller queries about procedures, and the wider system also takes care of online payments. The debut wrapped up AI Awareness Month, a run of workshops that schooled civil servants in responsible AI use.
Congreso de la República del Perú — Peru enacted Ley N° 32314 on 29 April 2025, folding AI use into the Código Penal (Decree 635) and the Ley de Delitos Informáticos (Law 30096) as grounds for tougher sentencing. This Peru AI regulation lets judges add up to a third onto prison terms whenever deepfakes or comparable tools drive crimes like fraud, defamation, child pornography or copyright breaches. The reform marks Peru's first statutory move treating AI regulation as a sentencing multiplier rather than a separate offence category.
Grupo NIC (Vitalics) — Grupo NIC's Vitalics gives Paraguay its first automated AI triage booth, scanning blood pressure, temperature and heart rate before an AI-guided questionnaire flags next steps and drafts a preliminary report. Running 24/7, it targets shorter hospital queues and wider primary healthcare reach via this self-service AI health kiosk.
Senado de la República Dominicana — A Dominican Senate panel is scrutinising Senator Omar Fernández's AI regulation bill, the Organic Law to Regulate AI Systems. The Education, Science Commission is checking how the draft steers AI's rollout nationwide while shielding rights, openness, safety and ethics. Backers claim the AI systems regulation still permits innovation.
Fiscalía General de la Nación — More than 13 million criminal complaints had piled up in Colombia since 2005 with scant means to reveal common threads — until Fiscal Watson, an AI system built on Big Data technology, gave Fiscalía General de la Nación a route into crime analysis in Colombia at scale. So far it has woven 722 cases into 61 investigation lines spanning Bogotá, Cali, Bucaramanga and Ibagué by matching modus operandi, physical descriptions and vehicles. María Paulina Riveros calls this AI-based criminal case linking proof that patterns once hidden in scattered files can now surface.
Air Caraïbes — Camille, an AI virtual assistant for customer service built by FCB.ai, runs on Guadeloupe-based Air Caraïbes' website, fielding over 800 daily traveller queries. It posts a self-reported 99.7% satisfaction score after six months live, part of a wider push into automated airline support.
Government of Saint Lucia Department of Finance — Saint Lucia's Government has retired the old SmartStream system, switching on InfoCloud Suite for AI analytics in public finance. The Accountant General's Department now handles quicker vendor payouts, automated HR workflows and tighter budget tracking via the cloud-based tool. Staff are training on fresh AI-powered financial reporting capabilities as deployment continues.
Citizenship by Investment Unit of St Kitts and Nevis — The St Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment Unit launched Saturn, a platform running AI-driven due diligence on citizenship applications. Developed with Grenada-based technology firm Sonover, Saturn automates manual data handling, monitors applications live and centralises communications. The CIU's executive chairman says automated vetting speeds processing and strengthens programme integrity.
Teleuniverso Canal 29 — A first among Cibao regional broadcasters, Teleuniverso Canal 29 in Santiago now embeds AI in newsroom operations as standard practice, ranking among the earliest nationwide to do so. Automated tools now handle social media content generation, editorial optimisation for the outlet's website, and newscast script writing, marking a shift from occasional use to routine editorial infrastructure powered by artificial intelligence in news production.
Febraban — Generative AI in banking has reached eight of every ten banks across Brazil, per Deloitte's Febraban Banking Technology Survey 2025, with 95% using AI to some degree. Efficiency rose 11.4% on average from adoption in financial services, and 38% of banks saw gains topping 20%.
ÍNTEGRO (Corporación Aicsa) — Corporación Aicsa's ÍNTEGRO arm introduced Alana, Guatemala's first AI real estate agent, fielding calls, arranging bookings and messaging buyers across commercial, residential and hospitality deals. This AI-powered property agent launch drew 9.8 million views plus almost 15 mil followers on @alanasliving within two months, a figure the company reports itself.
Rama Judicial de Colombia / Consejo Superior de la Judicatura — Twenty Colombian judges now draft rulings using Microsoft Copilot on Teams under a Consejo Superior de la Judicatura beta scheme, automating transcription, summarisation and drafting as part of wider AI in judicial administration. Santa Marta's María Victoria Quiñones jumped from four weekly rulings to 20 after adopting it. Organisers aim to widen the rollout to 150 judges and clerks, extending this AI-assisted court drafting effort.
Senado de Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico AI regulation took a step forward when the Senado passed Senate Bill 68, giving rise to the Ley de Inteligencia Artificial del Gobierno de Puerto Rico. This government AI policy bars agencies from deploying any AI tool that fails ethical benchmarks once 1 January 2026 arrives, with compliance checked through recurring biennial audits. A fresh post, Oficial de Inteligencia Artificial, sits inside the Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service (PRITS) alongside a new AI Advisory Committee, and PRITS itself must now draft rules guiding safe, workable AI rollout across public bodies. The proposal heads next to the House of Representatives.
Departamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio (DDEC) — Over 120 civil servants from eight Puerto Rico agencies received AI training for government employees during the week of 7 April 2025, via 'Inteligencia Artificial para el Gobierno' (AI for Government). Microsoft and PRITS backed the Departamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio (DDEC), which assembled staff from Education, Health, Family, Treasury, Public Security, Housing, Justice, the Planning Board, Budget Office, Medical Services Administration and Police. Coursework covered machine-learning basics, public-agency applications and hands-on tool practice — an AI for Government course others might replicate.
Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information — Several Jamaican schools are testing AI exam marking under a new Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information pilot. Dana Morris Dixon said staff now watch scores appear instantly as software grades scripts, a change designed to hand teachers back hours for direct student contact rather than manual scoring.
Superintendencia de Competencia Económica (SCE) — Resolution SCE-DS-2025-12 gave Ecuador's Superintendencia de Competencia Económica (SCE) its first AI ethics code public sector reform, an addition to its existing Code of Ethics that sets out how the regulator governs artificial intelligence use inside a government body. Human review must accompany every automated task, guided by five values -- openness, responsibility, fairness, protection and traceability -- while any system threatening basic rights or producing unfixable harm stays banned outright. By October 2025 the agency had gone further still, issuing a Guide for Auditing AI Use and becoming Latin America's first government institution to build formal algorithmic auditing in government into its oversight structure.
MAPFRE Guatemala — MAPFRE Guatemala relaunched its AI telemedicine platform MedicOnline on 2 April 2025: a smartphone scan of vital signs precedes each remote doctor's visit. This AI-based vital sign scanning flags heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol risk, and type 2 diabetes risk beforehand, free and available 24/7 for MAPFRE's insured.
Government of Bermuda — Bermuda's AI policy for public-sector use requires human review for any automated decision touching rights or service access, alongside adherence to the territory's data protection and freedom-of-information rules. Its formal title, the Artificial Intelligence Policy, covers all government employees and consultants using AI tools for official work. A new AI Governance Sub-Committee, part of the government AI governance framework, will monitor rollout and compliance.
SURA — At Colombia's Centro de Ciencias Ómicas, Sura applies generative AI in genomic medicine, running Microsoft technology across genetic records from more than 10 thousand patients. Staff now type plain-language questions into a Teams interface for AI genomic data analysis instead of sifting through spreadsheets by hand. This speeds up treatment planning and personalises care across the insurer's five million-strong membership.
Ciancoders — Quetzaltenango-based Ciancoders has released FinanzIA, marketed as Guatemala's first AI accounting platform built on automated bookkeeping technology. The software classifies documents, reconciles bank records, generates SAT-compliant ledgers and calculates shadow-declaration tax. Ciancoders claims an 80% cut in processing time and 15 new local tech jobs, unverified figures.
Circuito Líder 94.9 FM — Circuito Líder 94.9 FM in Caracas became Venezuela's first station to run AI-generated radio content without any human hosts, launching 'Vacílate Esto IA' on weekdays. The format clones the voices and personalities of its creators, systematising output through Perplexity and ChatGPT.
Government of Antigua and Barbuda — Antigua and Barbuda has switched on ArriveAntigua.com, an AI border entry system at V.C. Bird International Airport that automates passport data capture for arriving and departing travellers. Travellers take a selfie and scan their document, so the software fills their profile and prints a QR code, cutting wait times for customs and immigration officers. The rollout is one strand of the government's wider Project Optimus digitisation drive.
Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica — Costa Rica AI regulation cleared a key hurdle as the Legislative Assembly's Human Rights Committee backed Expediente 23.919 with a favourable majority opinion (dictamen afirmativo). Officially named 'Ley para la Promoción Responsable de la Inteligencia Artificial en Costa Rica', this AI governance law envisions ethics-driven oversight for every stage of machine intelligence work nationwide — spanning research, design, construction and eventual rollout — anchored by a proposed watchdog, the Interinstitutional Commission for the Development of Artificial Intelligence (CIDIA), alongside a standalone, autonomous panel of technical and ethical advisers. No plenary ballot had been cast as of September 2026.
Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ) — Binding AI rules now cover Brazil's judiciary: Resolução CNJ nº 615 governs AI in the judiciary nationwide, effective 14 March 2025. Judges and staff must guarantee fairness, human oversight, algorithmic auditability and data protection whenever AI tools come into play, watched by the freshly created Comitê Nacional de Inteligência Artificial do Judiciário. Judicial AI governance standards were subsequently revised through Resolução CNJ nº 674 on 25 March 2026.
Hospital Universitario de Caracas — Hospital Universitario de Caracas now runs an AI-powered MRI machine, called by Delcy Rodríguez the nation's first scanner with embedded AI. Radiologists keep final say; the system only flags findings. Officials call it part of a wider shift toward AI-assisted imaging in Venezuelan hospitals.
Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública (INAP) — Civil servants in Guatemala can now enrol in AI training for civil servants through Guatemala's National Institute of Public Administration (INAP), one of 49 fresh entries in its catalogue spanning diplomas, postgraduate degrees and shorter programmes. Delivered entirely online across 48 hours over two months, the AI in public administration course walks learners through core concepts, available tools, ethical questions and hands-on applications intended to sharpen government transparency and efficiency. Enrolment starts 17 March 2025 ahead of a May launch.
Insuco Tiburcio Saavedra / Municipalidad de Temuco — Chile now has its first public liceo running an AI security system: Insuco Tiburcio Saavedra in Temuco, fitted with a metal-detector portal and facial-recognition cameras. Dahua Technology Chile built the setup for the Municipalidad de Temuco after knife-related scares on site pushed officials to act. Trial length: six months, finished late February 2025.
Escuela Superior de Innovación en la Administración Pública (ESIAP) — 21 employees drawn from nine Salvadoran public bodies now hold Google Cloud Platform credentials, a milestone for AI adoption in government. ESIAP rector and Vice-President Félix Ulloa presented the honours once trainees wrapped a Google Day course on cloud configuration. Backers described the initiative as advancing digital transformation of public services nationwide.
Consejo de la Magistratura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires — AI use in judiciary now falls under enforceable limits in Buenos Aires: Resolution 206/2025 (26 February) bans handing rulings to machines. Its Guide of Recommendations and Directives sorts systems by risk tier and demands data-protection reviews before high-risk deployment. Wherever AI-assisted court proceedings happen, officials must keep audit logs and disclose the technology's role.
Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador — El Salvador AI regulation now flows from one statute, the Law for the Promotion of Artificial Intelligence and Technologies. The National AI Agency (ANIA) leads enforcement, backed by the National Registry for AI Development, Innovation and Application. Registered firms gain legal shields under this AI policy framework.
Hospital Materno Infantil — Hospital Materno Infantil in Tegucigalpa bought an AI-powered CT scanner for 17 million lempiras, among the most advanced AI imaging machines in Honduras's public health system. The Aquillon Serve unit's built-in AI flags lung nodules, runs brain spectral scans, and digitally subtracts images for cerebral circulation studies. It also helps identify cancerous tumours and measure their size.
Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela — A three-pillar national AI plan Venezuela unveiled under President Nicolás Maduro builds specialised talent, sovereign computing infrastructure for domestic models, and capacity for the ALBA AI agency. Branded the National Artificial Intelligence Plan for Sustainable Development, it launched 25 February 2025 for transformation via innovation, now covering education, health, hydrocarbons, and banking and finance under this sovereign AI development strategy.
Congress of the Dominican Republic — Congressman Tobías Crespo filed a Dominican Republic AI regulation bill setting up CONIA, the National Council for Artificial Intelligence, to enforce codes, appeals and sanctions. Bans cover AI governance bill terms like military and security uses, social scoring, biometric categorisation and manipulation.
Cámara de Diputados de la República Dominicana — Fuerza del Pueblo lawmaker Tobías Crespo has lodged Dominican Republic AI regulation legislation with Congress, proposing a National Council for Artificial Intelligence, CONIA, to police how AI is built and deployed nationwide. His bill, part of a wider push for AI governance legislation, would bar the armed forces from using AI and stop agencies from scanning crowds with live facial recognition, reading emotions algorithmically, or ranking citizens through social scoring.
Hospital Militar Comandante Manuel Piti Fajardo, Hospital Provincial Arnaldo Milián Castro, Hospital Oncológico Dr. Celestino Hernández Robau — Three Villa Clara hospitals in Cuba pilot AI medical imaging from Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas. Hospital Militar Comandante Manuel Piti Fajardo reads X-rays for COVID-19, Hospital Provincial Arnaldo Milián Castro flags lung nodules, and Hospital Oncológico Dr. Celestino Hernández Robau screens breast masses. As a second reader, these AI diagnostic imaging systems surface patterns a radiologist might miss.
Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) — A million-plus health records mined by an algorithm at Costa Rica's Clorito Picado Clinic in Tibás are the basis for a new AI diabetes risk prediction pilot run by the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, CCSS). Drawing on the Single Digital Health Record (EDUS) database, the tool marked 2% of patients as likely candidates for type 2 diabetes, and follow-up exams verified 132 had already progressed to the disease since 2023 - those individuals now receive ongoing monitoring to halt further deterioration. Early findings surfaced within months, paving the way for broader predictive healthcare analytics targeting acute coronary syndromes, retinopathy and cancer.
Cementos Cienfuegos S.A. — Cementos Cienfuegos S.A., Cuba's state-owned cement plant, now runs AI process efficiency diagnosis across its industrial operations. This AI in cement manufacturing case is one of several documented across Cuban industry.
CHU de Guyane — Cayenne's public hospital, CHU de Guyane, now screens for bowel cancer using Cad Eye, an AI-assisted colonoscopy tool built into a high-resolution endoscope. Adenoma detection has jumped from 15 to 40 percent since the technology entered its gastroenterology department, which handles over 1,200 procedures a year. French Guiana thus joins the growing list of regions applying AI-powered colorectal cancer screening in routine practice.
GanaderIA — GanaderIA's AI-based livestock weighing app pairs drone imagery with algorithms to tally herds and estimate weights, under 5% margin of error, skipping physical scales. Uruguay's platform converts footage into batch averages and per-animal figures automatically — drone-based cattle counting that replaces manual handling with remote data capture.
Caribbean Court of Justice — Barbados's CCJ court published Practice Direction No. 1 of 2025, setting rules for generative AI in court proceedings across the Caribbean Court of Justice's jurisdiction. Attorneys, parties, witnesses and self-represented litigants must verify GenAI-generated citations and meet accuracy and professional responsibility standards under the new framework. The step gives judges an early template for handling AI-assisted filings region-wide.
Caribbean Court of Justice — Binding guidance on generative AI in court proceedings now covers lawyers, litigants, witnesses and unrepresented parties throughout the region, under Practice Direction No. 1 of 2025 from the Caribbean Court of Justice. Saint Lucia falls under this GenAI regime too, since it belongs to CARICOM and sits within the CCJ's appellate reach. Instead of a single-country rule, this judicial AI regulation stretches across the wider Caribbean bench.
Departamento Nacional de Planeación (DNP) / CONPES — CONPES 4144 sets Colombia AI policy: six pillars spanning ethics, infrastructure, research, talent, risk and adoption, running to 2030. The National Council for Economic and Social Policy approved the document, giving the country a long roadmap for regulating and rolling out artificial intelligence across public and private life.
Universidad Iberoamericana (Unibe) — Universidad Iberoamericana (Unibe) deployed an AI virtual assistant for university students, built with CardNET and named Aurora, to handle admissions, enrolment, payments and academic documentation in the Dominican Republic. It answers multilingual queries from students, graduates, staff and faculty via WhatsApp and email, using generative AI with institutional data for real-time processing — an instance of AI in higher education administration.
Subsecretaría de Gobierno Digital, Provincia de Buenos Aires — Argentina's Buenos Aires province now enforces generative AI guidelines public sector-wide under Resolution 4/2025. Staff must tag anything an AI system generates, ensure a person reviews it before use, and never enter sensitive information into these tools; machines cannot rule on matters touching individual rights. The Dirección Provincial de Innovación Digital will oversee adherence under these government AI guidelines and provide training for personnel.
Cooeprouasd — Cooeprouasd, the Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples de Empleados Profesores de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, has launched Cooperativina, an AI virtual assistant for cooperative members in the Dominican Republic. It answers questions on loans, savings and other services and processes payments, available 24 hours a day via text or voice. The move points to a wider shift toward AI-powered banking assistants at member-owned financial institutions.
Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión — Callao's Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión now runs an AI-powered MRI scanner, its first, plus a new AI mammography unit, both part of a medical imaging AI expansion. Tumours get caught at clinical stages 1 and 2, where survival odds top 90%, and the scanner speeds up readings for neurology, oncology, cardiology and orthopaedics. Priced above 21 million soles, it should cover 19,710 patients yearly.
Grand Court of the Cayman Islands — Personal accountability now falls on lawyers who lean on artificial intelligence while drafting court filings, following Justice Asif KC's decision in Bradley & anor v Frye-Chaikin. This marks the first written guidance from the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on AI in legal submissions: using such technology to speed up litigation draws no criticism, provided the person relying on it checks outputs for fabricated citations or other invented content before filing. Attorneys who skip that verification could face costs sanctions, and rival counsel now carry a duty to warn the bench whenever an opponent's AI tools in legal proceedings risk misleading it.
Secretaría de Seguridad de Honduras (Security Ministry) — Honduras' Security Ministry unveiled MARIA (Módulo de Asistencia y Respuesta de Información Automatizada), an AI chatbot for gender-based violence support that also serves as a confidential virtual assistant for victims, free for women and girls, 24 hours a day, via WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, no app needed. It privately answers questions on domestic violence, harassment and trafficking and walks victims through filing a complaint. UNDP and USAID helped build it.
Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) — Costa Rica gained an AI assistant for higher education when UNED (Universidad Estatal a Distancia) unveiled Unedia, a metahuman avatar helper — the first at a public university nationally. Generative AI drives the lifelike figure, fielding enrolment, academic and service questions nonstop, 24 hours daily, by text or voice — a university virtual assistant Leandro Camacho built free in two months.
Tokio Marine Seguradora — Tokio Marine Seguradora runs AI car insurance claims from phone photos sent via WhatsApp. Cília Tecnologia's 3D model reads damage and returns a cost estimate in minutes, skipping inspections and speeding payouts. This AI-based repair estimation replaces manual appraisal.
Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria (SAT) — Dictation replaces typing for Guatemala's smallest businesses under Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria's (SAT) new AI voice recognition for invoice issuance feature in its APP FEL app. This voice-activated electronic invoicing option lets simplified VAT-regime contributors speak billing details aloud, a shift officials expect will lower mistakes and strengthen compliance.
Cooperativa Rural de Electrificación (CRE) — CREcencio now runs non-stop WhatsApp support for Cooperativa Rural de Electrificación (CRE), an AI chatbot for customer service fielding hundreds of outage reports, QR payments, consumption checks and bills together, 24/7. Answers rely on artificial intelligence and remembered chat history, not scripts; no purchased AI virtual assistant platform was used — CRE coded it in-house.
NCB Capital Markets Limited — An AI investment chatbot named Simone now handles portfolio guidance for clients of Jamaica's NCB Capital Markets Limited over WhatsApp. Behind the scenes sits an AI-powered Risk Profiler and Asset Allocator, posing a brief round of queries to size up someone's appetite for risk before proposing a blend of stocks, fixed income and other instruments. NCB unveiled the system at the Jamaica Stock Exchange's Regional Investments and Capital Markets Conference.
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas (INEN) — AI MRI cancer diagnosis at Peru's National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases (INEN) has cut 1.5 Tesla scan times from 50 to 30-40 minutes. Embedded software adjusts for patient motion automatically, removing the need to stay still. This AI-assisted MRI scanning setup now handles roughly 1,000 studies monthly.
Hospital Ángeles — Nine minutes: that's how fast AISHA MRI turns a magnetic resonance scan into a full-body 3D digital twin, spotting over 290 anatomical structures with better than 90% accuracy. Rolled out across all 27 Mexico sites run by Hospital Ángeles, this AI medical imaging diagnostics tool has revealed that a third of patients carry a significant finding warranting further review — an early proof point for AI-driven medical imaging at scale.
Fundación Cardioinfantil (LaCardio) — Colombia's first clinical AI unit, marking a new stage in AI in cardiology, has opened at Bogotá's LaCardio (Fundación Cardioinfantil): the Unidad Clínica de Inteligencia Artificial (UCIA). Built on digital twin organ simulations, a Framingham cardiovascular risk score and mortality-prediction models, it aims at sharper heart disease detection and treatment through data-driven clinical decisions.
Banco Ripley — Lukas launched as Latin America's first AI finfluencer for Banco Ripley, teaching Chilean youth saving, budgeting and credit via social clips. Pedro Juan y Diego and Wise Innovation Studios built the avatar with motion capture and 3D modelling, voiced in colloquial Chilean Spanish. This AI-powered financial influencer format targets younger audiences.
Ministerio de Justicia y Seguridad — An AI server for police and military is coming to El Salvador, the country's first, Minister Gustavo Villatoro said. The Ministry of Justice and Security plans to equip the National Civil Police and Armed Forces with local machines for running AI systems instead of cloud platforms, opening fresh options for analysing threats and directing responses. He called the AI infrastructure for security forces already 'on its way', though giving no delivery date or hardware details.
Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) — Bahamas broadcasting regulation now compels licensed operators to draft or update governance rules for artificial intelligence, synthetic media and deepfake tools. The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority delivered this shift through a revised Code of Practice for Content Regulation (ECS 78/2024, 20 December 2024), weaving AI-generated content rules into broader service standards rather than issuing a standalone deepfake measure.
Congresso Nacional (Senado Federal) — This Brazil AI regulation, Senator Rodrigo Pacheco's Marco Legal da Inteligência Artificial (Bill PL 2338/2023), advanced from the Senate to the Chamber of Deputies on 17 March 2025, where it awaits a vote. Pacheco first tabled the text on 3 May 2023, setting out duties, rights and oversight rules for building and deploying AI systems nationwide. Provisions cover tiered risk categories, disclosure obligations, algorithmic impact reviews and mandatory human supervision — a broad AI governance legislation package.
Agencia de Gobierno Electrónico y Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento (Agesic) and Comité Estratégico del Sector Público para la Inteligencia Artificial y Datos — Agesic drafted Uruguay's AI governance strategy, the National AI Strategy for 2024–2030, under Article 74 of Law 20,212, and the Strategic Committee for the Public Sector for AI and Data signed off on it. Instead of leaving artificial intelligence use unchecked, the plan builds rules for ethical, safe and accountable systems alongside stronger technical skills and infrastructure. Officials cast this as a path to inclusive growth, sustainable development and better-run public services.
Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela — Venezuela's National Assembly unanimously cleared the Artificial Intelligence Bill in a first reading, a Venezuela AI regulation framework spanning 57 articles and four chapters on development, applications and rights safeguards. Lawmakers propose a National AI Agency as oversight body under this AI governance framework. Second discussion lies ahead before enactment.
Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT) — The Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT) launched the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (ENIA), Central America's first AI public policy. Costa Rica AI policy sets seven strategic axes, including ethical AI, research and innovation, talent and skills, smart government, and infrastructure and data, guided by principles of transparency, human dignity, equity, cybersecurity and risk management. The national AI roadmap prioritises 5G rollout and a National Centre of Excellence in AI.
Secretaria de Governo Digital (SGD), Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação (MGI) — Brazil's Secretaria de Governo Digital runs the Núcleo de Inteligência Artificial (NIA) to spread AI adoption in government agencies nationwide. Established by Portaria SGD/MGI nº 6.618 and revised via Portaria SGD/MGI nº 473 of 20 January 2026, it gives ministries shared software, coaching, ethics rules and hands-on backing. This centralises AI governance in government instead of each body building capacity separately.
Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC) — Binding guidelines on personal data processing in AI systems now apply nationwide after Colombia's Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC), acting as data protection authority, issued Circular 2. Firms building or operating systems involving AI data processing must justify each use of personal information against tests of suitability, necessity, reasonableness and proportionality, while embedding privacy safeguards from the design stage and proving accountability through documented measures. The directive shifts responsibility onto controllers rather than regulators to police compliance case by case.
European Parliament and Council of the European Union — Brussels enforces a single artificial intelligence rulebook, the EU AI Act, now binding across the European Union — the world's first such comprehensive law, in force since 1 August 2024. Martinique falls under its scope automatically, as an outermost region of a member state, alongside every other EU territory. Instead of one uniform standard, the text sorts systems into four bands — unacceptable, high, limited and minimal risk — fixing separate duties on providers and deployers depending on where a tool lands. This tiered method to AI governance ties compliance burden to potential harm rather than treating every deployment alike.
Council for Transparency (Consejo para la Transparencia) — Chile's Council for Transparency (CPLT) issued voluntary guidance on algorithmic transparency in automated decision-making, targeting agencies that run automatic or semi-automatic decision tools, through Resolución Exenta N° 372 on 30 August. A follow-up covering automated decision systems transparency arrived 14 July 2025 to guide implementation.
Agencia de Gobierno Electrónico y Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento (Agesic) and Unidad de Acceso a la Información Pública (UAIP) — Uruguay's Agesic agency and the Access to Public Information Unit (UAIP) published the Recommendations on Algorithmic Transparency, algorithmic transparency public sector guidance, on 17 July, built under the Fifth National Open Government Action Plan 2021-2024. The document hands state bodies practical tools for explaining automated decisions, seeking to grow citizen confidence while meeting current access-to-information and disclosure law covering algorithms that public agencies run. This effort pushes AI transparency in government further by tying ethical, accountable system use to legal compliance obligations already in force.
Asamblea Nacional — Ecuador's National Assembly is reviewing the Proyecto de Ley Orgánica de Regulación y Promoción de la Inteligencia Artificial en Ecuador, filed by legislator Patricia Núñez under process 450889, which would classify systems by four risk tiers modelled on the EU, ban social scoring and subconscious manipulation, and create an AI Ethics Committee for AI regulation in Ecuador. A risk-tiered oversight structure like this remains stuck in committee as of February 2026, with no first-debate report issued.
Parlement européen et Conseil de l'Union européenne — This AI regulation, Regulation 2024/1689, better known as the EU AI Act, now gives Brussels a single rulebook for building, selling and running artificial intelligence systems across the bloc. Machines get sorted into bands stretching from negligible danger up to outright prohibition, while firms that supply or operate them answer to watchdogs appointed in each nation for market oversight. Because it binds every member state automatically, French Guiana shares in that AI governance regime simply by belonging to the outermost tier of the European Union.
Parliament of The Bahamas — Bahamas' Electricity Act sets AI regulation in the electricity sector under Section 18, letting the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority write binding rules for artificial intelligence use by power companies. Any such rules must satisfy ten named principles, among them safety, transparency, fairness, accountability and redress alongside security, robustness, explainability, governance and contestability. The statute defines artificial intelligence as tech letting a device or programme be trained or coded to sense surroundings, process data automatically, and produce decisions or suggestions — an unusually direct embedding of AI oversight in utilities law.
Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba and Ministry of Communications (MINCOM) — Six pillars frame the Estrategia para el Desarrollo y Uso de la Inteligencia Artificial, folded by Cuba's Council of Ministers into the wider Política de Transformación Digital under the Ministry of Communications: ethics and law, workforce skills, applications, government use, research, and public messaging. Binding rules demand safe, explainable, fair, privacy-conscious systems under this AI development strategy Cuba has adopted. Farming, healthcare, schooling, transport, water, tourism, manufacturing and government bodies top the sectors marked for artificial intelligence deployment.
Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés — AI regulation France gained a formal shape when CNIL adopted binding guidance on 18 January 2024, under Délibération 2024-011, tying GDPR to AI system design. Firms must classify systems correctly, define purposes, pick a lawful basis, minimise data, assess risks and embed protection by design. This GDPR AI compliance guidance applies equally in French Guiana.
Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) — France's data protection authority CNIL adopted Délibération n° 2024-011, its first General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) recommendations for building AI systems. Released 8 April 2024 as Martinique AI regulation covering French territory, it addresses purpose, legal responsibilities, legal basis, impact assessments and data protection by design. Its audience: AI professionals needing rules for AI development.
Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation and Ministry Secretariat General of the Presidency — Chile now has non-binding AI in the public sector rules under Oficio Circular N° 711, issued jointly by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation and the Ministry Secretariat General of the Presidency. State bodies building, buying or running artificial intelligence tools are urged toward human-centred design, explainable systems, stronger data protection, and staff training on government use of artificial intelligence. The rules carry no binding force on agencies.
Parliament of Uruguay — Uruguay AI regulation stems from Article 74 of Law No. 20,212, which tasks Agesic with building a national artificial intelligence and data strategy spanning public bodies and private firms, guided by international benchmarks. The rule demands fairness, non-discrimination, accountability, transparency, auditability and cautious innovation, plus respect for human dignity and democratic order. Within 180 days Agesic owes lawmakers a report proposing rules balancing ethical progress, human rights and Uruguayan AI policy innovation.
Presidencia de la República Dominicana (Poder Ejecutivo) — Decree 498-23 (11 October 2023), Dominican Republic's Executive Branch, approved the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (ENIA) — a Dominican Republic AI policy on four pillars: Smart Government, Talent and Innovation Hub, Data Hub, Regional Scale. Aims: automated citizen services, ethical governance, and regional leadership in artificial intelligence in government.
Jefatura de Gabinete de Ministros — The Jefatura de Gabinete de Ministros created the Interministerial AI Council (Mesa Interministerial sobre Inteligencia Artificial) via Administrative Decision 750/2023 to draft the executive branch's comprehensive national AI strategy. Chaired by the Secretariat of Innovation, Science and Technology, this Argentina AI policy body gathers ministries of Defence, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Health, Security, Human Capital, Justice, Deregulation and State Transformation, steering cross-sector AI coordination across economy and society.
Agencia de Acceso a la Información Pública (AAIP) — Argentina's AAIP created the National Programme for Transparency and Personal Data Protection in the Use of Artificial Intelligence via Resolution 161/2023, an AI governance Argentina framework for algorithmic accountability. It sets up an observatory and multidisciplinary advisory council, plus guides, training and campaigns on data protection and transparency in AI use.
Congreso de la República del Perú — Peru AI regulation now rests on Ley N° 31814, backing artificial intelligence uptake while putting human rights and individual welfare first. Required tenets: monitored safety, ethical design, privacy protection, transparent operation. Authority sits with the Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros, via its Secretaría de Gobierno y Transformación Digital, under this AI governance framework.
Subsecretaría de Tecnologías de la Información, Jefatura de Gabinete de Ministros — Argentina's Subsecretariat of Information Technologies approved the 'Recommendations for a Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence', non-binding guidance for AI in the public sector, spanning government systems from design to retirement. As a trustworthy AI standard, not regulation, it lists seven principles: transparency, explainability, fairness, non-discrimination, privacy, oversight, accountability.
Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA) — Argentina's central bank, the Banco Central de la República Argentina, requires AI risk management in financial entities under Communication A 7777, folding AI/ML into its security rules via Section 4.6. Institutions must document each algorithm, assign ownership, run impact assessments, and set risk appetite for machine learning deployment in financial services.
Central Bank of Barbados — The Central Bank of Barbados set supervisory expectations for AI risk management in banking through its Technology and Cyber Risk Management Guideline (TCRM), issued 5 May 2023, covering cyber threats tied to automated systems and duties to classify and report cyber incidents. This frames cyber governance for AI-driven banking systems as a regulatory priority.
Instituto Nacional de Transparencia, Acceso a la Información y Protección de Datos Personales — Mexico AI regulation guidance from the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (INAI) covers personal data tied to artificial intelligence use across government bodies and companies. It sorts AI into categories, sets principles for accountable AI governance, and gives controllers a checklist for confirming compliance during AI product development. The move reflects Mexico's wider AI data protection policy.
National Consumer Service (Servicio Nacional del Consumidor - SERNAC) — SERNAC, Chile's consumer protection agency, addressed AI consumer protection via Resolución Exenta N° 33, guiding businesses on privacy hazards from automated tools used with shoppers. Expectations cover algorithmic disclosure, fair treatment, secure data handling, banned dark patterns, and human review of automated decision-making affecting consumers.
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI) — Brazil set its AI policy in Brazil through the Estrategia Brasileira de Inteligencia Artificial (EBIA), created by Portaria MCTI no 4.617 and revised by Portaria no 4.979 on 13 July 2021. Grounded in OECD ideals — fairness in growth, focus on people, openness, resilience and answerability — the Strategy shapes state pursuit of research, innovation and responsible artificial intelligence deployment. Nine pillars organise the plan: law, governance, foreign relations, skills training, R&D, and rollout across industry, government and public safety.
Agencia de Gobierno Electrónico y Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento (Agesic) — Agesic's Guide for Algorithmic Impact Study (EIA) gives public-sector teams a structured algorithmic impact assessment method for automated decision-support systems built on machine learning. It helps project leads flag key risks and design considerations before deployment. The guide supports Uruguay's broader approach to AI governance impact assessment in government projects.
Secretaría de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva, Presidencia de la Nación — Argentina's Plan Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial, known as ArgenIA, rests on six pillars: talent, data, computing infrastructure, research, sectoral uptake and ethics. The Secretariat for Science, Technology and Productive Innovation backs the roadmap to 2030, framing national AI policy and public-sector AI adoption across government and business.
Gouvernement français — France's national AI strategy, the Stratégie nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle (SNIA), runs across two phases, 2018-2022 and 2021-2025, targeting global and European leadership in artificial intelligence. It covers all French territory, including French Guiana, focusing on research strength, talent training, economic AI uptake, and ethics. COSNIA, within the Direction générale des Entreprises, coordinates the artificial intelligence development plan.
Government of France — France launched its national AI strategy, the Stratégie nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle (SNIA), unveiled by President Emmanuel Macron at the Collège de France and building on the Villani report 'Donner un sens à l'intelligence artificielle'. It targets European and global AI leadership through two funded phases: Phase 1 (2018–2022, €1.5 billion) for research capacity, Phase 2 (2021–2025, €1 billion) for spreading AI use economy-wide. Martinique falls under this artificial intelligence policy as French territory.
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