Google Chrome may have silently installed 4GB AI model on your computer. Here's how to check

We tested our own computers to see if the model was present.

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Google Chrome May Have Quietly Installed a 4GB AI Model Onto Your Device

You might not have asked for an AI model on your computer, but you might have gotten it anyway. Google Chrome has been ...

The Tiny AI Model That Lives Inside the Chrome Browser Hallucinates a Whole Lot

Gemini Nano has lived on devices since 2024, Google told Gizmodo on Wednesday. According to a Google blog post, the tiny ...

Google Chrome Is Downloading a 4GB AI Model Onto Your Device Without Consent, Researcher Warns

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

AI Model Weights Are The New Crown Jewels. They Demand A New Security Model

The exposure happens during computation. You can wrap a model with controls, but if the model weights or data are visible in ...

Drunk male model beaten to death in ‘sudden, quick and brutal’ attack by stranger

Luke Harden, 36, suffered catastrophic head injuries on Newchurch Road in Bacup, a small town in northwest England, in the ...

In California governor race, single-payer healthcare is a litmus test. There’s still no way to pay for it

Single-payer healthcare is a central talking point in the chaotic race for California governor. In a crowded field, ...

Spirit Airlines 2.0? TikToker proposes Packers-inspired model

The Green Bay Packers' fan-owned model inspired TikTok content creator Hunter Peterson's "Spirit 2.0" campaign to revive the ...

Google Chrome is installing a 4 GB AI model onto your device. Here’s how you can turn it off

Google Chrome is silently downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model to your device without consent. Here's what it is, where it ...

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 is here, and it's no potato: narrowly beats Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview on Terminal-Bench 2.0

So when it comes to models that the general public can access, GPT-5.5 has retaken the crown for OpenAI, achieving the state-of-the-art across 14 benchmarks.