GLOBAL AI REGULATION: US FRAMEWORK REDEFINES THE RULES OF TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETITIONCOMPARATIVE VIEW
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The Trump administration's announcement of a national legislative framework for artificial intelligence is reshaping the global regulatory landscape. Between the US deregulatory approach, the European normative model, and China's sovereignty-focused ambitions, each country is recalibrating its strategy in the face of the century's most transformative technology.
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FRAMING GAP
90/100HIGH
Perspectives diverge strongly
Here are the main framing differences identified between media coverages.
ANALYSIS BY COUNTRY
BRAZILDOMINANT ANGLE
Digital sovereignty for the Global South against American and Chinese Big Tech dominance
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
- •The Legal Framework (PL 2.338/2023) adopts a risk-classification structure mirroring the EU AI Act
- •The PBIA 2024-2028 allocates 23 billion reais for AI infrastructure and sovereign cloud capacity
- •Legislation stalls in the Chamber of Deputies with low passage prospects in 2026, an election year
- •A National AI Regulation and Governance System (SIA) is proposed
- •Dual rejection of American model (Silicon Valley-friendly) and Chinese approach (state-controlled)
BIASES
Digital sovereignty rhetoric without industrial capacity to operationalise itBRICS invoked as legitimising lever but lacking original normative content on AIUnderplayed gap between 23 billion reais and US/Chinese AI investment scales
SAUDI ARABIASTATEDOMINANT ANGLE
AI as a cornerstone of Vision 2030 and evidence of the modernising monarchy model's superiority
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
- •2026 officially designated 'Year of Artificial Intelligence' by the royal cabinet
- •9.1 billion dollars in AI funding in 2025 across 70 investment operations
- •World's leading adopter of AI in the public sector according to the Global AI Index
- •Shaheen III supercomputer and Hexagon centre (480 MW) showcased as technological flagship projects
- •SDAIA coordinates a six-pillar strategy without dedicated legislation, though a framework is in development
BIASES
Vision 2030 as mandatory narrative: no criticism of AI strategy receives publicationAuthoritarian modernisation presented as a superior model: monarchy outperforming democracyComplete omission of AI's security applications (surveillance, facial recognition, dissent management)
BRAZILDOMINANT ANGLE
Digital sovereignty for the Global South against American and Chinese Big Tech dominance
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
- •The Legal Framework (PL 2.338/2023) adopts a risk-classification structure mirroring the EU AI Act
- •The PBIA 2024-2028 allocates 23 billion reais for AI infrastructure and sovereign cloud capacity
- •Legislation stalls in the Chamber of Deputies with low passage prospects in 2026, an election year
- •A National AI Regulation and Governance System (SIA) is proposed
- •Dual rejection of American model (Silicon Valley-friendly) and Chinese approach (state-controlled)
BIASES
Digital sovereignty rhetoric without industrial capacity to operationalise itBRICS invoked as legitimising lever but lacking original normative content on AIUnderplayed gap between 23 billion reais and US/Chinese AI investment scales
SAUDI ARABIASTATEDOMINANT ANGLE
AI as a cornerstone of Vision 2030 and evidence of the modernising monarchy model's superiority
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
- •2026 officially designated 'Year of Artificial Intelligence' by the royal cabinet
- •9.1 billion dollars in AI funding in 2025 across 70 investment operations
- •World's leading adopter of AI in the public sector according to the Global AI Index
- •Shaheen III supercomputer and Hexagon centre (480 MW) showcased as technological flagship projects
- •SDAIA coordinates a six-pillar strategy without dedicated legislation, though a framework is in development
BIASES
Vision 2030 as mandatory narrative: no criticism of AI strategy receives publicationAuthoritarian modernisation presented as a superior model: monarchy outperforming democracyComplete omission of AI's security applications (surveillance, facial recognition, dissent management)
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