A 4GB file called weights.bin may be sitting on your hard drive right now, put there by Chrome 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 ...

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

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

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

Have you ever wondered how to harness the power of advanced AI models on your home or work Mac or PC without relying on external servers or cloud-based solutions? For many, the idea of running large ...

Because Gemini Nano is constantly appearing on machines for the first time, people may think this is something new. In ...

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

The results were surprisingly wacky ...

Google Chrome may be consuming more space than expected due to an automatic download of a 4GB AI model called Gemini Nano.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4GB AI Model on desktop systems without user consent. Learn how to find and delete it to ...