AI Hardware & Devices
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Chrome Silent Gemini Nano Install puts a 4GB AI model on 3.8 billion devices without asking
A forensic post hit HackerNews #1 last week with 695 points: Chrome silently downloaded a 4GB Gemini Nano weight file in 14 minutes 28 seconds. No prompt, no notification, no opt-in. The file sits at OptGuideOnDeviceModel/weights.bin. Delete it and Chrome pulls it down again. Stopping it requires chrome://flags or enterprise policy — nothing in normal… Continue reading
