You might've noticed some of the precious space on your computer's hard drive disappear recently without a clear cause. Perhaps unexpectedly, Google Chrome could be behind it. A 4 GB file titled ...

Resourceful users have discovered a file approximately 4 GB in size that Google silently installed on all machines with Google Chrome. It's essentially part of a mass-distributed AI model available ...

If you remove the model, the features Google uses it for—including the AI-enabled scam detection—will cease to function. But since Gemini Nano is also used by Chrome to enable local AI processing for ...