Chrome Sends Page Text to Gemini to Hunt Scams — and Reads Your Clipboard

Chrome Sends Page Text to Gemini to Hunt Scams — and Reads Your Clipboard

Google has quietly moved one of Chrome’s most sensitive security checks off your machine. The browser’s AI-driven scam detection, which once ran entirely on-device, now sends page text to a server-side Gemini model for analysis — a shift the company frames as a horsepower upgrade rather than a privacy trade-off. The change was disclosed on … Read more