🎙️ Google adds voice AI to Gmail, Docs, Keep

🪪 Dark web site sold 153 million driver's license

🤗 Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

🎙️ Meta's new AI can transcribe 20 people talking at once

🚕 Waymo attacks Tesla’s camera-only robotaxi strategy

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Setup is simple: run /local inside Junie. It downloads the model, starts the local server, and switches to local mode automatically.

Unlimited usage makes it much easier to hand off bigger tasks like multi-file refactoring, adding tests, dependency upgrades, migrations, or other repetitive coding work without watching a credit counter.

Google is rolling out Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, giving users conversational Gemini tools to search inboxes, draft documents, and capture notes through natural-language voice commands on mobile.

Docs Live can pull context from Gmail, Drive, Chat, and the web, while Gmail Live answers questions about inbox contents and Keep Live turns spoken requests into notes, recipes, and lists.

Google now has voice AI across its Mac app, Pixel 11 phones, and core productivity apps, making typing increasingly optional for subscribers on its paid AI plans.

A dark web service called Nexus offered scans of more than 153 million US and Canadian driver's licenses this week, then vanished hours after Krebs on Security published its investigation.

Krebs matched file timestamps to victims' car rentals and dispensary visits, pointing at IDScan.net, a Louisiana verification firm that scans IDs for Hertz, Target and over 1,000 dispensaries. The FBI opened an investigation.

The records included infrared and ultraviolet images, the exact formats businesses use to prove a license is real. Nexus listed Pete Hegseth's license for $100 and, reportedly, licenses belonging to FBI agents.

Nvidia agreed Thursday to buy Hugging Face, the platform where developers share open AI models and datasets, for $12.9 billion. The deal needs regulatory approval and should close in the first half of 2027.

Hugging Face draws over 18 million developers who share 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and a million applications. Jensen Huang wrote that Nvidia compute will not be required to build or deploy there.

Hugging Face runs about $150 million in annualized revenue, so Nvidia paid roughly 86 times sales. It had previously rejected a $500 million Nvidia investment that valued it at $7 billion.

Meta launched Muse Voice Transcribe, its first real-time audio model, which handles more than 20 speakers across multiple languages. The company ships it through its Model API, Muse Code, and the Meta AI Mac app.

Mark Zuckerberg demoed the model switching languages mid-sentence, crediting an adaptive delay that waits longer on hard words. Meta trained it on over 70 languages, validated 25, and priced it at $3 per 1,000 minutes.

Google shipped Gemini 3.5 Transcribe with similar capabilities less than a week earlier, and Meta still has no consumer rollout plans. Superintelligence Lab is moving fast, mostly toward developers who already have options.

Waymo says safe autonomy at scale requires cameras, lidar, and radar, directly challenging Tesla’s camera-only approach just as Tesla prepares to introduce its purpose-built Cybercab to its robotaxi fleet.

Waymo points to 200 million autonomous miles and warns end-to-end AI can create black-box failures, while Tesla argues cameras and AI can deliver cheaper autonomy without expensive lidar hardware.

The timing raises the stakes: Waymo already runs roughly 4,000 robotaxis and 500,000 weekly paid trips, while Tesla now needs Cybercab to prove its cheaper technical bet works at scale.

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