News Summary

• A 4GB file called weights.bin may be sitting on your hard drive right now.
• Chrome has been quietly downloading a 4GB AI model onto users' hard drives since at least April 2026.
• The mysterious file is Gemini Nano, an AI model that runs on devices such as smartphones and laptops rather than in the cloud.
• Privacy advocates say the practice may violate European Union's General Data Protection Regulation's principles of fairness, transparency, fairness and transparency, at least in Europe.
• But Google says Gemini Nano will automatically uninstall if the device doesn't have enough resources, such as processing power, RAM memory, storage space or network bandwidth.