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

Chrome may be downloading a hidden 4GB AI file to your PC — here’s what it is and how to check if it’s there.

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

Google has been silently downloading "weights.bin" for its on-device Gemini Nano AI model inside the Chrome web browser.

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

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

Google Chrome users who have noticed unusual disk activity or unexplained drops in available storage should look for a folder ...

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

If you run AI features in Chrome, you might have inadvertently downloaded 4GB of additional data to your machine.

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