Hajra Naz
Google is beefing up Chrome’s defenses with fresh, on-device AI features aimed at cutting down on online scams.
Starting now, desktop users in Enhanced Protection mode will see an extra layer of fraud detection powered by Gemini Nano, Google’s compact language model that runs straight on your computer.
At the same time, Android users will begin spotting smarter warnings whenever shady sites try to push junk notifications their way.
Under Chrome’s Safe Browsing umbrella, Enhanced Protection already halves your risk of phishing and similar threats compared with the default setting.
By tapping Gemini Nano, Google says it can sniff out even brand‑new scam sites in real time — no internet pingbacks needed.
“Gemini Nano’s strength lies in quickly breaking down a website’s quirks,” explains Google in its announcement, “so we can stay one step ahead when scammers change tactics.”
The first test of this “AI watchdog” is stopping phony tech‑support pitches that pop up out of nowhere.
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But Google plans to widen its net, extending these protections to Android and tackling more scam types down the road.
Those spammy push notifications you might have unknowingly signed up for?
Chrome on Android will now check each alert with its built‑in machine learning.
If something looks fishy — a prompt to download “urgent security software,” say — you’ll get a clear heads‑up.
You can then unsubscribe on the spot, peek at what was blocked, or green‑light future messages from that site if you’re confident it was a false alarm.
Behind the scenes, Google’s been quietly applying similar AI tricks in Search, blocking hundreds of millions of scammy results every day and cutting down fake customer‑service ruses by airlines by more than 80%.
The company credits its AI scanners with catching twenty times as many fraudulent pages as before, making everything from booking a flight to banking online a little safer.
