Com o recurso de mensagens diretas no YouTube, é possível compartilhar facilmente um vídeo que tenha curtido com quem você quiser.

Porém, como todo mensageiro, pode ser que você se depare com algum contato indesejado ou com quem não queira mais conversar. Pensando nisso, o aplicativo do Google permite bloquear uma pessoa.

Confira como é simples fazer isso! 🎬

Abra o app do YouTube no seu dispositivo (iPhone ou iPad) e toque no ícone de mensagens, localizado na parte superior direita.

Selecione a conversa com a pessoa que quer bloquear, vá até o botão com três pontinhos (no canto superior direito) e escolha “Bloquear as mensagens desta pessoa”.

O destinatário não receberá uma notificação sobre o bloqueio; depois de bloquear alguém, a conversa com ela vai permanecer na sua caixa de entrada, mas não será possível enviar novas mensagens.

Ao fazer esse bloqueio, você também não verá mais os chats ao vivo e os comentários dessa pessoa, nem receberá menções dela. O canal bloqueado também não vai mais receber as suas mensagens no chat ao vivo, comentários ou menções.

Com a reintrodução do recurso de troca de mensagens privadas no YouTube, ficou fácil compartilhar os seus vídeos prediletos com amigos ou familiares.

Se já estiver usando essa função, saiba que é possível também cancelar o envio de uma mensagem compartilhada dessa maneira.

Veja como fazer facilmente isso no seu iPhone ou iPad! 💬

Comece abrindo o app do YouTube no seu dispositivo. Selecione o botão de mensagens (na parte superior direita) e entre na conversa onde a mensagem está localizada.

Mantenha o dedo pressionado por alguns segundos em cima da mensagem, toque em “Cancelar envio” e novamente em “Cancelar envio” para confirmar a ação.

O YouTube informa que, ao cancelar o envio de uma mensagem, ela não aparecerá mais para as pessoas na conversa.

Além disso, é importante lembrar que a pessoa para quem você enviou a mensagem já pode tê-la visualizado e saber que foi apagada.

Pela quinta vez só neste mês, as ações da Apple [$AAPL] voltaram a alcançar uma nova máxima histórica após abrirem esta semana com uma alta de 1,17%. Agora, elas valem US$336,91 — o penúltimo recorde, vale lembrar, foi de US$333,74 e havia sido registrado no último dia 17/7.

Durante o pregão, os papéis da Maçã chegaram a atingir a marca dos US$339,57, o que também representa um recorde em relação ao último pico registrado (US$334,98).

Além disso, a empresa voltou a assumir a liderança do ranking das mais valiosas do mundo, após atingir um market cap de US$4,948 trilhões — se aproximando, portanto, da marca dos US$5 trilhões pela primeira vez.

Agora segunda colocada dessa lista, a NVIDIA [$NVDA] apresentou uma queda forte durante o pregão (-4,99%, mais especificamente), o que fez com que suas ações fechassem o dia valendo US$196,51. Em termos de valor de mercado, a empresa está agora avaliada em US$4,76 trilhões (US$188 bilhões a menos do que a Apple).

Na terceira posição, temos a Alphabet [$GOOG], com um market cap de US$3,994 trilhões. Durante o dia de hoje, os papéis da empresa-mãe do Google cresceram 2,34%, fechando o dia valendo US$326,57.

Un internaute a découvert qu’un satellite de télécommunication Starlink de SpaceX est passé devant un satellite d’imagerie de la surface Terre pendant qu’il survolait le Texas. L’image a été retrouvée sur Google Earth. Que nous dit cet événement pas si anodin que cela ?

The European Commission found Google's search ranking and anti-steering violated the Digital Markets Act.

Em sua rede social (a Truth Social), o presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, afirmou que investigará as multas cobradas pela União Europeia contra empresas de tecnologia americanas (como a Apple, a Amazon, o Google e a Meta) acusadas pelo bloco de terem violado a Lei dos Mercados Digitais (Digital Markets Act, ou DMA).

Na declaração, Trump prometeu reverter as penalidades financeiras aplicadas às empresas estadunidenses sancionando tarifas contra a UE. Ele também aproveitou a oportunidade para alfinetar o ex-presidente do país, Joe Biden:

A União Europeia atacou de novo e, como de costume, mirou diretamente nas GRANDES empresas americanas! Depois de multar a Apple, sem motivo aparente, em US$15 bilhões, a Meta em US$3 bilhões, a Amazon em US$2,5 bilhões, e muitas outras, nós acabamos de ser informados que o Google, um grupo fantástico e realmente avançado, acabou de receber outra multa de US$1 bilhão, sem explicação. Isso leva o total do Google para mais de US$18 bilhões!

Essa prática ilegal e altamente discriminatória começou nesses níveis elevados durante o primeiro ano da administração do dorminhoco Joe Biden, mas não continuará durante a administração Trump.

Os Estados Unidos da América não são um “COFRINHO” da Europa, e nós não vamos permitir que sejam!

Que esta VERDADE sirva para representar que vamos iniciar imediatamente uma investigação da Seção 301 ¹Lei americana de comércio que investiga práticas tributárias ou sanções injustas de outros países contra os EUA. sobre essa prática de “ROUBAR” empresas americanas e, por consequência, o contribuinte americano.

A União Europeia vai pagar caro por essa conduta ilegal e altamente antiética, sobre a qual venho alertando-os de maneira consistente. As penalidades serão inteiramente revertidas e, como esperamos, TARIFAS substanciais serão aplicadas contra eles assim que possível. Fiquem ligados!

Presidente DONALD J. TRUMP

Não é a primeira vez que o mandatário dos EUA critica a maneira como a UE penaliza as empresas americanas: em 2025, ainda recém-empossado, ele não apenas criticou essas práticas, como alegou que as multas eram, na verdade, pretextos para uma retaliação tributária e “injusta”.

Vale lembrar que o segundo mandato de Trump foi endossado de maneira reputacional e monetária por praticamente todas as empresas citadas na declaração — especialmente o CEO ²Chief executive officer, ou diretor executivo. da Apple, Tim Cook, que ajudou a financiar a cerimônia de inauguração do seu governo.

via MacRumors

Notas de rodapé

• 1
  Lei americana de comércio que investiga práticas tributárias ou sanções injustas de outros países contra os EUA.
• 2
  Chief executive officer, ou diretor executivo.

As fears of a bursting AI bubble reach new heights, Google has emerged as arguably one of the best yard sticks available to measure investor sentiment around AI.

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, released its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday. On the surface, there were plenty of reasons to pop the champagne: as the New York Times reported, the company’s profits rose to a staggering $112 billion, four times higher than the nearly $25 billion in profit over the same period last year.

Yet underlying that banner profit is a familiar beast: the same circular financial motions that gave rise to the AI bubble narrative in the first place.

As the NYT observes, the vast majority of Google’s windfall — $99 billion, to be exact — wasn’t due to actual revenue from AI or any other services the company offers; instead, it was due to Alphabet’s mammoth investments in other tech companies. In particular, Alphabet attributed the massive profits to investments in corporations also chasing the AI payday, like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, as well as Anthropic, the company behind the popular chatbot Claude.

In other words, it’s great financial news — until the instant the AI market crashes, in which case it would all come crashing down. (In an earnings statement, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai enthused that Google’s “AI investments are redefining what’s possible across every part of our business.”)

Under that green surface froth is a churning sea of red. In addition to those starry revenue numbers, Google upped its anticipated 2026 capital expenditures from $180 to $190 billion — already staggering numbers — to an eye-watering $195 to $205 billion. The argument, in a nutshell, is that it needs to spend much more to break out of the computing bottleneck, which will unlock even higher profits next year.

As Gizmodo observed, Alphabet’s chief financial officer Anat Ashkenazi told investors to expect that figure to “increase significantly in 2027.”

At the same time, Alphabet posted a negative free cash flow for the first time as a publicly traded company, meaning the actual cash it generated after covering operating expenses and capital expenditures is worse than nil.

That revised forecast, coupled with the bone-dry cash flow, left investors shellshocked. On Thursday, the day after the company’s earnings report hit newsrooms, Alphabet’s stock fell by 6.89 percent — evidence, perhaps, that massive profits on paper are no longer enough to keep investors hooked at this stage of the AI bubble.

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Publishers have watched in horror as Google continues to double down on AI features that discourage users from actually clicking on links — a once-steady source of readership that’s causing a crisis in the media now that the search engine is cutting it off.

The situation has become so dire that some publications are now debating whether to cut Google off entirely, as the Wall Street Journal reports, illustrating an increasingly fraught relationship between the tech giant and the publishers that are creating content its AI models are regurgitating.

According to the newspaper, prominent outlets including USA Today, Politico, the Economist, People, and Reuters are all reexamining their relationship with Google. Some are debating whether to continue to work with the tech giant at all.

“This is existential for some categories of publishers,” media consulting firm media consulting firm DJB Strategies CEO David Buttle told the WSJ. “They are looking at more radical things.”

Even Reddit executives are reevaluating the company’s $60 million-a-year contract that allows Google to train its AI models on user-submitted content on the platform. They’ve similarly watched as Google’s AI features discourage users from navigating to Reddit.

Last month, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince noticed that automated bot traffic had overtaken human traffic for the first time in the internet’s history, a sobering turning point and concerning inflection point for anyone in the attention economy.

USA Today has seen its traffic from US users drop by almost half over the last year, leading executives to ponder whether to cut off Google’s access entirely.

“It’s time to take a stand and say enough is enough,” USA Today CEO Mike Reed told the WSJ.

Naturally, Google doesn’t see itself as the one to blame, arguing that it’s still sending “billions of clicks to the web every week” and helping “creators and publishers grow their audiences” with the help of AI, as a spokesperson told the newspaper.

Those reassurances, however, are seemingly falling on deaf ears. Beyond pondering whether to cut Google off, other publishers have resorted to suing the company, accusing it of illegally rehashing their intellectual property via AI summaries.

It’s an extremely undesirable position for publishers. By severing ties with the search giant, they could face even steeper declines in traffic. At the same time, there’s seemingly little to gain from having Google’s AIs crawl their content — and in the long term, it could guarantee their destruction.

In some ways, Google is biting the hand that feeds it. AI companies are desperately trying to find new training data that doesn’t include AI-generated slop. By actively discouraging users from visiting websites that source new information, the company is cutting off a fresh supply of the data it so desperately needs.

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Getting locked out of an account is no fun. Google has a few ways to help you regain access if you happen to forget your password or lose an authenticator, including recovery contacts and backup codes. Now, Google has a completely new option: your face. You can now give Google a video record of your face and sign into your account with a selfie, which sounds like something people are going to just love.

You will have to set this feature up ahead of time if you want the option of regaining account access with a selfie later on. To get started, verify your account type is supported. You won't be able to configure selfie sign-ins for Workspace accounts, child accounts, or any account enrolled in Google's Advanced Protection Program.

Configuring selfie sign-in requires you to record a video, which Google will store on its servers. Google's selfie sign-in landing page includes the typical disclaimers about privacy and data access, promising that the company will keep the video encrypted and won't use it for any other purposes unless you opt in.

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Getting locked out of an account is no fun. Google has a few ways to help you regain access if you happen to forget your password or lose an authenticator, including recovery contacts and backup codes. Now, Google has a completely new option: your face. You can now give Google a video record of your face and sign into your account with a selfie, which sounds like something people are going to just love.

You will have to set this feature up ahead of time if you want the option of regaining account access with a selfie later on. To get started, verify your account type is supported. You won't be able to configure selfie sign-ins for Workspace accounts, child accounts, or any account enrolled in Google's Advanced Protection Program.

Configuring selfie sign-in requires you to record a video, which Google will store on its servers. Google's selfie sign-in landing page includes the typical disclaimers about privacy and data access, promising that the company will keep the video encrypted and won't use it for any other purposes unless you opt in.

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A corrida da IA está a sair cara à casa-mãe da Google e o "peso" dos gastos com infraestruturas já se faz sentir nas contas da gigante tecnológica, levantando preocupação junto dos investidores.

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai (pictured) rejected concerns Google is losing ground in the AI race after delays to the Gemini 3.5 Pro model, as the company posted a strong second quarter on booming demand for AI and cloud services.

Speaking on the company’s Q2 earnings call, Pichai acknowledged Google needed to improve in areas including AI coding, but said it remained “very committed and very confident of being at the frontier”.

The chief faced repeated questions over whether Gemini could keep pace with rivals in the AI race after Google delayed the launch of its next advanced model in June. He said Google is “committed to being at the full parade of frontier,” offering models at multiple price points including its more affordable Flash models.

Pichai argued “the frontier is an incredibly dynamic space, and it’s fiercely moving forward”, stressing “there are many attributes on which we are still at the frontier”.

He pointed to Gemini 3.6 Flash, released this week, explaining it improved by more than 10 points on a coding benchmark over its predecessor while using fewer tokens. He also revealed the company has begun training Gemini 4, describing it as its “most ambitious pre-training run yet”.

Once Gemini 4 lands, he added the company plans on “picking up pace and releasing models almost at a monthly cadence”.

Strong demand
In Q2 2026, Alphabet pinpointed Google Cloud, which continued to benefit from enterprise demand for AI infrastructure and services.

Revenue from the unit soared 82% to $24.8 billion and operating income more than tripled to $8.8 billion. Google Services revenue increased 15% to $94.5 billion, driven by a 17% spike in Search, 15% in Google subscriptions, platforms and devices, and a 13% rise in YouTube advertising.

Total revenue rose 24% year-on-year to $119.8 billion, Alphabet’s 12th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth.

Net income surged 298% to $112.1 billion, as it benefitted from a net gain of $98 billion on equity securities. It did not disclose further information, but the company is known to have a sizeable stake in SpaceX and has investment in Anthropic.

“Our AI investments are redefining what’s possible across every part of our business,” Pichai explained, adding ballooning demand for AI infrastructure and enterprise AI solutions helped drive the results.

The search giant also continued ramping AI investment, expecting to spend between $195 billion and $205 billion in capital expenditure this year, up from its previous forecast of $180 billion to $190 billion.

“We have increased ​our capacity quite significantly over the past three years. The demand still outpaces that investment,” explained Alphabet CFO Anat Ashkenazi, adding that although “we’re still in a supply constraint environment”, the company is “seeing very strong demand, both from external cloud customers as well as across the business”.

Looking ahead, the company added it expects capex to “increase significantly” in 2027 as AI demand swells.

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Para quem deseja mudar do ecossistema iPhone para Android, a Google facilita o processo com uma nova ferramenta nativa disponível na mais recente versão do sistema operativo.

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Firm told to treat third-party services that appear in its results in ‘fair and non-discriminatory manner’

Google has been fined a total of €890m (£760m) by the EU for breaches of online competition laws by its search and app store services.

The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said Google had broken the Digital Markets Act by giving priority to its own services, such as shopping and hotel deals, in search results over those of its rivals.

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