Chrome's Hidden AI: The 4GB Surprise Eating Your Disk and Bandwidth

Episode notes

Hot Take: Google Chrome, Gemini Nano, and the 4 GB Consent Problem Show Notes Google Chrome has been quietly downloading a roughly 4 GB AI model called Gemini Nano onto user devices in the background. No clear consent prompt. No notification. Just a file called weights.bin turning up in a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel like it pays the mortgage. In this Hot Take, Noel breaks down why this is not an "AI is evil" story. It is a consent story. A governance story. And a vendor entitlement story that every UK small business needs to take seriously.