Much weirder is voice editing in Google Docs, in a new feature called Docs Live. By describing with your voice what you want to write, an agent will dictate your words, generate text, pull in citations from the web, and aim to turn your stream-of-consciousness wishes into a coherent document.

(Reminder: All this stuff may eventually have ads.)

For Gemini power users, Google is creating a new subscription tier, the AI Ultra plan, for $100 a month. It is also dropping the price of its top Gemini AI Ultra from $250 a month to $200.

Gemini Omni

Google announced Gemini Omni, an AI video generator, akin to Sora 2. That was OpenAI’s generator that let you deepfake yourself, but was eventually killed by the company.

Google’s approach is building out a far more realistic video generator that can incorporate real video and extrapolate all manner of AI-powered weirdness on top of that. Google is eager for you to turn Omni’s eye on yourself, putting your face front and center. As such, selfie videos can be modified to add different backgrounds, styles, or environments, making it appear that you are somewhere other than your actual location.

The feature was demoed on stage with a video of someone recording themselves walking through a metal sculpture. They then asked Omni to change the structure to look like it was made of bubbles. You can also add images and video of yourself from your camera roll and generate just about any variety of cinematic style. Google says Omni is capable of advanced animations and fun typography.

Google’s approach is focusing Omni on video creation first, though it says still image and text capabilities will be coming later. Eventually, Google says it wants to let Omni create any output with any input.

Read more about Omni in Reece Rogers’ story on WIRED. OmniFlash, a starter version of Omni, is available starting today for Google AI+ Pro and Ultra subscribers.

Gemini Spark

Gemini Spark is Google’s answer to OpenClaw, the viral AI powered helper bot that could be used to help with real life needs like buying groceries or researching vacation options (and occasionally causing you to wind up in a scam).

Spark can write emails or plan a block party and pull information from files in your Google Drive. It is meant to be a personal agent just for you, keeping up with your schedule so it knows the rhythms of your life, learns what major events are coming up, and can help manage long-term or recurring tasks for you.

Spark runs entirely on Google Cloud, which Google says means it can process background requests without having to leave your device on. For now Spark just works with other Google software, though not with the Chrome browser quite yet. Google says that is coming, along with third party support, later this summer.

WIRED’s Reece Rogers has a deeper dive into Spark.

Agents Love Shopping

To help you manage all of your online shopping, Google will start deploying an agentic-powered shopping experience. As you search for products, Google will show you listings that it hosts for products for sale at various retailers. You can also shop the old fashioned way, by going to various websites and perusing the listings there.

The big difference is that now, Google will offer a universal shopping cart. Just add the products you’re interested in as you surf, and Google’s agent will keep your wish list organized. It can alert you to price changes and tell you when there’s a newer version or a new color option available. While products are sitting in your cart, you can engage Gemini to ask for more details about your potential purchases, add other products to the cart, or try to find better deals at other retailers.

The FBI says Americans have lost over $388 million last year to scams using cryptocurrency kiosks, also known as crypto ATMs or Bitcoin ATMs.

Cryptocurrency kiosks are physical, standalone electronic terminals (which may or may not require identity verification to prevent money laundering) that resemble bank ATMs and allow users to buy or sell crypto assets using cash or debit cards.

They are often found around gas stations, convenience stores, and other easily accessible locations. Cybercriminals ask potential victims to deposit their cash into crypto kiosks that then transfer the funds to attacker-controlled crypto wallets.

Earlier this month, Minnesota lawmakers banned cryptocurrency kiosks statewide, after similar moves from Indiana in March and Tennessee in April.

In a public service announcement published on Friday, the bureau warned of a nearly 60% surge in reported losses to crypto ATM scams compared with the previous year.

“In 2025, the IC3 received more than 13,400 complaints reporting the use of cryptocurrency kiosks, with losses over $388 million — a 23% increase in complaints and a 58% increase in losses from 2024. More than half of the complaints involved individuals over 50, with losses over $302 million,” the FBI said.

“In typical IC3 complaints involving cryptocurrency kiosks, criminals give detailed instructions to individuals, including how to withdraw cash from their bank, how to locate a kiosk, and how to deposit and send funds using the kiosk.”

According to complaint data and adjusted losses shared by the FBI, Americans from Texas, Florida, and California filed over 3,300 crypto ATM scam complaints and reported over $112 million in estimated losses.

The FBI also shared some measures that anyone can take to protect themselves from falling victim to such scams, including not sending money to people you only know online, never scanning QR codes or following payment instructions from unknown individuals, always verifying phone calls directly, and not sharing any personal information over the phone.

It also recommended being wary when anyone claiming to be from the government or law enforcement demands cryptocurrency payments, stopping transactions if a kiosk operator warns you of fraud, and always keeping receipts for cryptocurrency transactions.

The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report says the law enforcement agency received over 1 million complaints through its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) last year, linked to almost $21 billion in losses from cyber-enabled crimes such as investment scams, tech support fraud, and business email compromise.

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• Huawei-linked LineShine supercomputer crams 2.45 million Arm cores into one enormous AI cluster
• Huawei’s processors power one of China’s largest AI computing installations today
• CPU-only supercomputers eliminate costly data transfers between processors and accelerators during workloads

China has deployed a massive CPU-only supercomputer called LineShine that delivers 1.54 exaflops of AI training performance without using any GPUs at all.

The system packs 20,480 compute nodes, each containing two LX2 processors for a total of 40,960 chips across the entire machine.

• Brands with no Trustpilot account only appeared in 1% of AI-generated answers
• Review and trust platforms are the second-most cited source type
• Relevance, recency and ranking are vital in a good GEO strategy

Trustpilot claims businesses could effectively be “invisible” in AI-generated answers if they fail to build visible trust signals through customer reviews and engagement, indicating a new post-SEO era.

While optimizing for search engines remains key, generative engine optimization (GEO) has introduced yet more challenges for companies looking to survive in 2026 and beyond.

Keri Rodrigues, a mother of five boys, knows the value of screens.

For her boys, four of whom receive school accommodations, screens serve a practical purpose at school.

“When you get a kid who’s got [a learning plan] for anxiety and a substitute teacher that hasn’t read his 504 [plan] and there’s nobody there to de-escalate him, he’s got to use his phone to call mom so I can FaceTime with him and do a breathing exercise,” Rodrigues says.

But this use of screens bumps against a new concern. Fueled by distress over the mental health impacts of too much screen time, lawmakers have begun to pass device bans and other restrictions for schools, in a rising “techlash” across state capitols.

Now, as the country wrestles with restricting screens, some parents and disability advocates are beginning to express concerns about whether students who rely on accessibility tools are being excluded from the rulemaking process. Some of these advocates say they agree that new tech restrictions are necessary, but they are calling for careful consideration in how these rules are written.

Many neurodiverse students need assistive technologies for learning, and it’s common for digital tools to be prescribed in the plans schools use for these students. Assistive technologies support functional and social needs for these students’ daily lives, argued Sambhavi Chandrashekar, global accessibility lead for D2L, an online learning platform, in a series of emails to EdSurge.

Chandrashekar and others worry that lawmakers aren’t consulting families with neurodiverse students enough when crafting new restrictions, and that screen time laws could impinge on accessibility tools. They worry that the gains these students have made are becoming swept up in larger political battles.

Advocates are calling for a proactive approach to avoid potential problems down the road, and EdSurge has not yet found an example of a student blocked from using an assistive device because of these new bans.

Students with ADHD might use screens for reminders, alarms, timers, or even medical alerts, says Rodrigues, the mom. Students with autism use it for self-regulation, and students with anxiety, epilepsy, asthma, or vision and hearing differences rely on specific accessibility features on their phones. One of her own sons, a senior in high school, uses a meditation app to de-escalate, she says.

In her position as president of the advocacy group National Parents Union, Rodrigues wants caution from lawmakers. The new legislation is “really well intended,” she says. But: “We’ve got to make sure we’re not stomping on kids that are actually utilizing these devices for really important reasons.”

“Phones aren’t just toys for kids,” Rodigues says.

Inclusion as the Norm

Disability laws such as the Individual with Disabilities Education Act guarantee students the right to assistive technologies, sometimes including screens.

But the new restrictions occur at a particularly tense time for these families.

Mass firings and funding cuts under the Trump administration have cast doubt on the reliability of federal civil rights protections and processes, some argue, leading to an increase in accessibility-related lawsuits, as families look to protect their rights. For instance, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog report, the Trump administration’s cuts to the office which reviews civil rights complaints contributed to a 90 percent dismissal of student civil rights complaints in the later months of 2025.

Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice delayed a long-anticipated deadline that required schools and vendors to meet widely accepted accessibility guidelines, after it became clear that schools and governments were not ready.

And advocates have already called attention to bills that would subject students with disabilities to surveillance cameras in classrooms, in the hopes of curbing physical restrains against these students, as EdSurge has reported.

‘Unintentional Segregation’

As for the latest screen restrictions, many of the bills note that they do not apply to students with disabilities under law. For example, laws from Alabama and Tennessee carve out blanket exemptions for students with disability plans. And Tennessee’s bill also includes an explicit exception for literacy and dyslexia screenings.

Still, advocates are concerned.

Local and regional policies can limit access to tools like screen readers and predictive text software even if they don’t mean to, argues Andrew Kahn, an associate director for Understood, a support organization for people with learning differences. But these tools can be necessary for those students to keep up in class. It’s not obvious to everyone that these tools can help students, even some who don’t have formal plans, Kahn says.

Typically, when these rules mention students with disabilities, they will exclude anyone covered by disability law, says Lindsay Jones, CEO of CAST, a nonprofit focused on assistive technology and learning. But they are still relying on local school districts or other agencies within the state to provide guidance about how to implement the law, she adds.

Without sufficient guidance, a concern is that teachers might become uncomfortable working with students who need screens for accessibility reasons and might restrict these tools because of that, Jones says. For instance, advocates fear that a teacher, wary of breaking the new law, might tell a student not to use a screen, even though it was prescribed by an individualized education program, or IEP.

“It’s not typical that a student [with disabilities] is sitting alone at a screen, which I think is what seems to be driving much of the concern,” Jones says.

But even if students with disabilities aren’t prevented from using the screens, there’s unease about whether these new rules will contribute to shaming or separation.

Reading some of these laws without guidance, it’s unclear how to implement them without banning screens in the classroom, Jones says. In order to follow these rules, it’s possible that students who are exempt from the bans could be moved into another room, she worries.

“That’s immediately going to bring — or raises our concerns about — stigma for these kids,” Jones says. “One of the beautiful things is when technology is built into systems that we’re all using, and we can use them together, and it reduces the feeling that you’re separate and different in a way that can be especially harmful.”

It’s an apprehension that others in the space share.

“You would be restricting [students with disabilities] because the access to technology is creating that stigma and that segregation,” says Kahn of Understood. “Anything that leads to difference between kids, that accentuates and magnifies, has the really strong potential to further stigmatize and make these kids feel singled out.”

Education should always take place in the least restrictive environment possible, he adds.

Rodrigues says that she and other parents also worry about whether students will become reluctant to use their disability tools because of the stigma. “Kids might actually choose to suffer rather than being singled out socially,” she says.

But ultimately, for some proponents of accessibility tech, the disquiet is largely about who gets consulted for new rules and how they get enforced.

It’s not that these restrictions shouldn’t be pursued, but that families of students with disabilities should be more thoroughly included in the rulemaking process, these advocates argue.

“Parents with children who have a disability must have a seat at the table,” Chandrashekar wrote: “Blanket rules that are blind to fundamental human differences will do more disservice than good to students at the margins.”

Apple TV has shared the upcoming slate of Peanuts content, including a new special “There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy” and a feature-length film “Snoopy Unleashed” alongside more classic releases.

Apple TV announced on May 19 that “Camp Snoopy” will return for a second season on June 26, followed by a new special, “Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy,” on July 31. The service is also bringing “This Is America, Charlie Brown” and “The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show” to Apple TV for the first time in July.

The Peanuts brand has slowly made Apple TV the modern home for Snoopy and the gang. Apple repeated that its expanded partnership with WildBrain, Peanuts Worldwide, and Lee Mendelson Film Productions runs through 2030.

Even though Apple TV has focused on exclusives and original content since its inception, a few established series and brands have made their way onto the service. The Peanuts are the most prominent example, but there’s also “Fraggle Rock” and “Long Way Up.”

Apple keeps expanding Peanuts beyond nostalgia programming

Much of Apple’s early Peanuts push focused on bringing the holiday specials to the platform and a few new original specials. The latest slate shows the company moving deeper into franchise-building with returning series, library expansion, and new film development happening simultaneously.

“Camp Snoopy” season two follows Snoopy and the Beagle Scouts at Camp Spring Lake. The new July special centers on Snoopy trying to recover his accidentally sold doghouse.

Apple is also adding two older Peanuts productions that have been less visible on streaming platforms in recent years. “This Is America, Charlie Brown,” originally released in 1988, mixes Peanuts characters with episodes focused on American history and culture.

“The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show,” which originally aired from 1983 through 1986, adapts classic Charles M. Schulz comic strip storylines. Its 18 episodes from the classic series that will help increase Apple’s catalog just a little bit more.

Apple also shared that “Snoopy Unleashed” is a feature-length film coming soon. It follows Snoopy after he runs away from home, sending Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang into a large city to search for him.

“Camp Snoopy” season two follows Snoopy and the Beagle Scouts at Camp Spring Lake

Streaming services are now battling it out with recognizable intellectual properties rather than just offering a vast library of content. Disney leans on Marvel and Star Wars, Netflix pours money into its established franchises, while Apple struggles with fewer major existing brands beyond Peanuts.

Unlike many streaming exclusives, Peanuts also aligns closely with Apple’s family-friendly image. The franchise carries decades of cultural familiarity without the licensing complications or tonal risks tied to larger blockbuster properties.

Apple TV currently costs $12.99 per month in the United States and is available through the Apple TV app across Apple devices, smart TVs, game consoles, Roku, Fire TV, and web browsers.