Abstract: Large, high-capacity models trained on diverse datasets have shown remarkable successes on efficiently tackling downstream applications. In domains from NLP to Computer Vision, this has led ...

Android and ChromeOS are merging into a single operating system, and the result could become one of the most powerful platforms Google has ever produced. Dubbed Aluminum OS, the operating system takes ...

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

Hanff discovered a four-gigabyte file named “weights.bin,” in a directory called “OptGuideOnDeviceModel.” The file contains ...

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

Without notice or consent, Chrome has been downloading the hefty Gemini Nano model to run AI locally on your computer.

Google Chrome’s reported 4GB AI model download has sparked concerns about browser transparency, user trust and changing ...

One year after it launched the Codex in preview, OpenAI's coding agent is available pretty much everywhere. Including, now, ...

'Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.' ...

Here's how to delete Chrome's weights.bin file and disable Gemini Nano to reclaim your storage space on Windows and macOS.