In 60 seconds
- What happened. As the UN debate opened on September 22, Lula called for regulating big tech and Trump rejected global control of AI.
- Why it matters. In our reading, the fact that Brazil and Argentina bring opposite answers on regulating AI takes weight away from a common regional position.
- What we don’t know yet. What Javier Milei will say in his speech this September 23, in which, according to Infobae, he will call for AI not to be regulated.
Lula da Silva, the first speaker in the general debate of the 81st UN General Assembly, called the failure to take on the regulation of big tech and artificial intelligence an “omissão histórica imperdoável” (unforgivable historic omission), according to the official text of his speech. He accused “a handful of techno-oligarchs,” in his words, of promoting a race without ethical brakes, outside the UN and its Scientific Panel.
Hours later, Donald Trump said that the United States totally rejects any globalist scheme to control AI, and announced that his government’s official documents will call it superintelligence. PolitiFact qualified his statements about AI: the United States leads China in model capability, but industry experts say China is only a few months behind, and “superintelligence” does not describe, according to the industry itself, the systems available today.
The divide also runs through the region. Javier Milei is scheduled to speak this September 23 and, according to Infobae, will call for AI not to be regulated. In our judgment, the concrete effect is on the multilateral negotiation: if the UN moves ahead with a verification institution like the one some twenty countries called for, Brazil and Argentina will push in opposite directions and the region will not arrive as a bloc. There is a reasonable opposing reading: the speeches in the general debate do not oblige anyone to do anything, and the rules that do have effect are being written at home, as the cases of Brazil and Mexico below show.
Also today
- OpenAI will let external evaluators review its models during training: it is in talks with METR and Redwood Research, but the announcement does not detail access or timelines.
- The UN Security Council called on OpenAI and Anthropic: France convened the session for Wednesday the 23rd and, according to Reuters, DeepSeek and Moonshot were invited to speak. (Update: according to the meeting record, DeepSeek and Moonshot did not present.)
- Cisco Talos describes what it presents as the first command-and-control implant operated autonomously by AI: according to Talos, in one year malware went from using a model as an optional feature to coordinating several models with one another.
- Contractors who trained OpenAI models are fired for using AI to do it: they reviewed ChatGPT answers. Another contractor, who works for several AI companies, admitted to deliberately choosing bad answers to sabotage the training.
In the region
In Brazil, the Office of the Attorney General of the Union rejected Discord’s proposal on September 21 in the public civil action over the protection of minors. It is seeking robust age verification, linking the accounts of children under 16 to their guardians, and 500 million reais for collective damages. In Mexico, legislators and specialists discussed a general AI law at UNAM that, according to EFE, Congress aims to pass by the end of 2026. The specialists asked who will enforce it and with what resources.
Launches
- Claude Opus 5.5, from Anthropic: $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. The company says it costs 40% less to run than Opus 5. This entry is generated with Anthropic models.
- GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, from OpenAI: Sol targets programming and Luna summarizing and extracting information. According to TechCrunch they cost half as much as GPT-5.6, and Luna comes to the Free and Go tiers.
Threads we’re following
In yesterday’s entry we reported that some twenty countries asked the UN to explore a global AI body, with no Latin American signatories on the published lists. Lula’s speech calls for rules in the same direction; Trump’s rejects any global control.
Clarifications (September 28, 2026). The original version said that PolitiFact “concluded” that Trump’s statements about AI were misleading or inaccurate; PolitiFact checked them without rating each one. The headline about the Security Council presented as fact an invitation that did not materialize for the Chinese labs. The one who admitted sabotaging the training was another contractor, not one of those fired. Lula’s speech is now linked in its official text, published by the UN.
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Doble Click is written with Anthropic models.