Florida teen drops addiction case against Meta ahead of second ‘bellwether’ trial

Meta will avoid trial in a second lawsuit accusing it of intentionally addicting and harming a teen. The plaintiff dropped ...

Chrome's 4GB AI Model Is Installed On Millions Of PCs, But Is It Actually A Problem?

Is Chrome's 4GB AI model actually a problem? We explain the silent installation of Gemini Nano, the weights.bin file, and the ...

How to speed up Google Chrome downloads, and 4 more tricks to make your browser faster

Get through your web browsing, file downloading, social media surfing, online workflow quicker than ever with these hidden ...
CNET

Chrome Has Been Secretly Downloading AI to Your Computer. Here’s What You Can Do

Chrome’s automatic Gemini Nano installation writes a file called weights.bin to a folder most people have never opened and wouldn’t think to check. Chrome has been running an experiment on its users’ ...
Bleeping Computer

Google patches new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in the wild

Google has released emergency updates to patch another Chrome zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild, the fifth such flaw patched since the start of the year. "Google is aware that ...
Time

Google Shifts to AI Search, Heralding Major Change in How People Use the Internet

Follow this section to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Personalized Content Follow this tag to personalize your feed and get ...
Snopes.com

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

Reporting from May 2026 accurately claimed that Google Chrome silently installed a 4-gigabyte artificial intelligence model on users' devices without consent, and that the model reinstalls itself if ...
ZDNet

Why Chrome may have quietly downloaded a 4GB file to your PC - and how to get rid of it

Google is downloading a 4GB file to the PCs of many Chrome users. The file is harmless and is used for the Gemini Nano on-device LLM. You'll see it if you've opted into the on-device AI setting in ...
PC World

Chrome silently downloads a 4GB AI model. Here’s how to remove it

Google’s Chrome browser is already a notorious storage hog, but now comes word that it’s crowding our PC drives in a new way: with a local AI model. That model ...
TechSpot

Google Chrome has been silently pushing a 4GB AI model to your device without asking

Ripple effect: Google started turning Chrome, the world's most popular web browser, into an AI browser last year in response to threats from popular AI-native rivals such as OpenAI. Recent reports ...
Wired

How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’

The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos. You can set up your own ...
Wired

Google’s New Chrome ‘Auto Browse’ Agent Attempts to Roam the Web Without You

Google’s latest addition to its Chrome browser puts generative AI behind the wheel and you in the passenger seat. The release of Auto Browse is part of Google’s continued integration of AI features ...