The judge in the Charlie Kirk murder trial declined defense requests to throw out the death penalty as punishment but did order prosecutors to pay some of the defense’s legal fees. By Jack Healy ...

Google is quietly testing something in Chrome Canary that I think will either become one of the browser’s most useful or its most irritating additions ever. It depends on how often you highlight text ...

Google is testing an AI Mode button for the Chrome toolbar. When the button is clicked, it will open a side panel alongside the current page. The feature is currently being tested on desktop and ...

Following the last expansion to the Asia Pacific region, Google is bringing Gemini in Chrome to Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. After the US launch, Gemini in Chrome came to Canada, India, ...

A new flag in Chrome Canary directs searches made from the address bar directly to AI Mode. The Chromium commit description states that it’s just for exploration and there are no plans to push it live ...

Reporting from May 2026 accurately claimed that Google Chrome silently installed a 4-gigabyte artificial intelligence model on users' devices without consent, and that the model reinstalls itself if ...

A privacy researcher discovered Chrome is silently pushing a 4GB Gemini Nano model to user devices with no consent prompt, no notification, and no easy way to stop it. And the “AI Mode” feature you ...

If you use Google's Chrome browser for desktop, there's probably a Gemini Nano AI model running on your computer right now and taking up about 4 GB of space. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but if ...

Ripple effect: Google started turning Chrome, the world's most popular web browser, into an AI browser last year in response to threats from popular AI-native rivals such as OpenAI. Recent reports ...

This is a comparison of Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed's previous policymaking meeting in March. Text removed from the March statement is in red ...

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UPDATE (April 22, 2026): Google reached out to clarify that Gemini in Chrome has been rolled out to all APAC countries where Chrome is available, not only the 7 mentioned in the initial report. The ...