Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device

Same old, pay the fines, repeat the crime. Lawsuits need to disable companies that repeatedly violate the law.

#AI #Tech #Privacy #NoMeansNO #Google #Chrome #Alphabet #Claude
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

That Privacy Guy!
FYI: Big Tech pocketed $150bn in Q1 ads - and AI is changing who wins: Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft collectively surpassed $150bn in Q1 2026 ad revenue as AI reshapes search, the open web, and programmatic ad buying now. https://ppc.land/big-tech-pocketed-150bn-in-q1-ads-and-ai-is-changing-who-wins/ #BigTech #AI #AdRevenue #Meta #Alphabet
Big Tech pocketed $150bn in Q1 ads - and AI is changing who wins

Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft collectively surpassed $150bn in Q1 2026 ad revenue as AI reshapes search, the open web, and programmatic ad buying now.

PPC Land

US Top News and Analysis | Seth Klarman’s Baupost makes Amazon top holding, starts Aon and Visa stakes

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

Seth Klarman’s Baupost Group significantly boosted its exposure to Amazon—raising the stake by 47% to roughly $650 million and making the e‑commerce and cloud giant its largest disclosed U.S. equity holding—while also taking sizable new positions in insurance broker Aon, payments network Visa and medical‑device maker Teleflex, and tweaking other holdings such as increasing its stakes in Alphabet and Ferguson Enterprises and trimming Union Pacific and Willis Towers Watson. The moves, detailed in a recent regulatory filing, reflect Baupost’s search for opportunities amid AI‑driven market valuations, underscoring Klarman’s patient, value‑oriented approach that has earned him the nickname “Oracle of Boston” and frequent comparisons to Warren Buffett.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/seth-klarmans-baupost-makes-amazon-top-holding-starts-aon-and-visa-stakes.html

#SethKlarman #BaupostGroup #Amazon #Aon #visa #Teleflex #Alphabet #UnionPacific #WescoInternational #WarrenBuffett # #BenjaminGraham

"The latest bond sale is part of a series of bond sales that raise close to $60 billion for the internet giant, a four-month run that ranks as one of the greatest corporate borrowing binges ever." #Alphabet #bonds #AI https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/05/15/companies/alphabet-biggest-yen-bond/
Alphabet sells biggest yen bond on record by foreign issuer

The Google parent sold ¥576.5 billion ($3.6 billion) of bonds as competition to fund centers and AI infrastructure intensifies.

The Japan Times