Google Chrome silently downloads a 4GB Gemini Nano AI model to eligible devices, and downloads it again if deleted.
Even if you aren’t using Google Gemini, it might be using your device. Security researcher Alexander Hanff, also known as ...
You might not have asked for an AI model on your computer, but you might have gotten it anyway. Google Chrome has been ...
Earlier today, we wrote about Chrome automatically downloading a large, poorly explained file called weights.bin to desktop ...
If you run AI features in Chrome, you might have inadvertently downloaded 4GB of additional data to your machine.
A 4GB file called weights.bin is showing up on users' PCs. It's Gemini Nano and you can block it with two Chrome flags.
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