Google Chrome has been silently downloading a 4GB AI model, Gemini Nano, to eligible desktop machines without user consent, sparking privacy concerns. The deployment, discovered by researcher Alexande…
Google has been silently downloading its 4GB Gemini Nano AI model onto Chrome users' devices without consent since at least April, while a malicious Chrome extension disguised as Perplexity AI logged …
Google has been secretly downloading its Gemini Nano AI model to eligible Chrome browsers since April 2026 without user consent, raising privacy concerns. The 4GB model powers on-device AI features an…
Google has been silently installing a 4GB AI model, called Nano, onto eligible devices through Chrome without user consent or notification, according to privacy researcher Alexander Hanff. Separately,…