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    CICLOPE Latino Awards Honor 3 Grand Prix Winners

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    A scene from “KYIKATÊJÊ," the Production Grand Prix winner at the 2026 CICLOPE Latino Awards
    SAO PAULO, Brazil --

    Topping this year’s CICLOPE Latino Awards were three Grand Prix winners honored last night (4/23) in São Paulo.

    The Production Grand Prix went to “KYIKATÊJÊ” directed by Luiz Whately for GAVIÃO KYIKATÊJÊ F.C. through AREA 23, an IPG Health Network Company, produced by Balma Films.

    Taking the Postproduction Grand Prix honor was “A ti, ¿quién te espera?” directed by YUCA for Cerveza Victoria through Wieden+Kennedy Mexico, produced by THE YOUTH.

    And earning the Ideas Grand Prix was “The Ugliest Sweater” directed by Damiana Acuña &. Jorge G. Camarena for ILAS – Infancia Libre de Abuso Sexual through Made Agency & Rainbow Lobster, produced by The Maestros.

    In the largest CICLOPE Latino edition to date, this year’s award winners were selected by a jury of industry experts from more than 250 entries. They set Latin America’s benchmark for excellence in craft across 25 different categories. Work was entered into the competition from across the entire region including Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Peru.

    Special Awards
    Based on the work which was most awarded by the jury overall, CICLOPE Latino unveiled the Special Award honorees:

    –Director of the Year: Luiz Whately
    –Production Company of the Year: THE YOUTH
    –Agency of the Year: Wieden+Kennedy
    –Brand of the Year: PepsiCo

    For a full rundown of winners across categories, click here.

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    China’s DeepSeek rolls out a long-anticipated update of its AI model

    Friday, April 24, 2026
    The smartphone apps DeepSeek page is seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

    DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that shook world markets last year, launched preview versions of its latest major update Friday as the AI rivalry between China and the U.S. heats up.

    DeepSeek's V4 has been keenly anticipated by users looking to test how it compares to U.S. competitors like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini. Anthropic and OpenAI have accused DeepSeek of unfairly building its technology off their own.

    Some industry analysts had expected the new model to arrive more than two months earlier at the start of the Lunar New Year.

    DeepSeek says the new V4 open-source models, which include "pro" and "flash" versions, have big improvements in knowledge, reasoning and in their "agentic" capabilities – the ability to perform complex tasks and workflows autonomously. Another big change is they are supported in part by computer chips made by Chinese tech giant Huawei, reducing DeepSeek's reliance on U.S. chipmakers like Nvidia.

    V4 is a successor to V3, an AI model that DeepSeek released in late 2024.

    But it was DeepSeek's specialized "reasoning" AI model, called R1, that took markets by surprise with its release in January 2025. DeepSeek claimed it was more cost-effective than OpenAI's similar model and it became a symbol of how China was catching up with the U.S. in technological advancements.

    DeepSeek said the "V4 Pro Max" version has "superior performance" in terms of standard reasoning benchmarks relative to OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model and Google's Gemini 3.0-Pro. It falls "marginally" short of GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1-Pro, it said. DeepSeek's release came hours after OpenAI released its new GPT-5.5 model on Thursday.

    In terms of "agentic" capabilities, the Chinese... Read More

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