Chrome Canary now shows a redesigned multi‑step PWA install flow with desktop shortcuts, taskbar pinning, progress screens, ...

Google Chrome silently downloads a 4GB Gemini Nano AI model to eligible devices, and downloads it again if deleted.

Even if you aren’t using Google Gemini, it might be using your device. Security researcher Alexander Hanff, also known as ...

The 4GB on-device AI model, supposedly for Gemini Nano, is installed without consent or opt-in, and even re-downloads itself ...

If you use Google Chrome on your computer, the browser has silently installed an on-device AI model without your knowledge.

Google Chrome will steal 4 GB of disk space from your computer for its local large language model unless you opted out. It's ...

You can nix Chrome's 4GB local AI model in just a few clicks, but you'll lose some functionality in the process.

On May 4, 2026, Alexander Hanff, a computer scientist and lawyer who runs the website ThatPrivacyGuy.com, posted an article ...

Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI on your devices. Now, its latest version has removed the promise to keep your data off ...

Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome now support a policy that blocks automatic local AI model downloads and removes existing ...

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