Google Chrome is reaching into users’ machines and writing a 4GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking, Alexander Hanff writes.

AI researchers at Google have developed VaultGemma, a small-scale AI model specially designed to prevent memorization and potential leakage of specific training data. With businesses using potentially sensitive data to train or fine tune models for ...

Google’s Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google’s terms. The company’s Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but Gemma 3, which launched over a year ago, is getting ...

Google Cloud is locking in a multi-year partnership with AI coding startup Replit Google is betting on Replit as a breakout platform in the fast-growing vibe-coding phenomenon Replit will expand use of Google Cloud services, add Google models onto its ...

The U.S. government is tightening its grip on advanced artificial intelligence, moving earlier in

Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and xAI have agreed to give the US government early access to their artificial intelligence models to assess the systems’ capabilities and help improve their security before the technology is released to the public.

The arrangement is through the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, which will assess potential risks tied to national security.