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Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device

Sat, 09 May 2026 17:57:11 +0000

Originally published by The Register

Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns

Google has changed Chrome’s disclosure language about how its on-device AI works, but that doesn’t mean the company intends to capture on-device AI interactions.

The Chrome menu modification, which isn’t universally rolled out yet even in Chrome 148, wasnoted this week on Reddit.

The “On-device AI” message in Chrome’s System settings previously read, “To power features like scam detection, Chrome can use AI models that run directly on your device without sending your data to Google servers. When this is off, these features might not work.”

GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash

Fri, 08 May 2026 21:08:52 +0000

Originally published by The Register

It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too

It’s getting more expensive to use the latest models. OpenAI last month bumped the version number of its GPT model family to 5.5, and per-token prices rose too, in some cases doubling compared to its predecessor.

For 1 million tokens, GPT-5.5 is priced at $5 (input), $0.50 (cached input), and $30 (output). Its predecessor GPT-5.4 charges $2.50 (input), $0.25 (cached input), and $15 (output) per 1 million tokens.

Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy

Fri, 08 May 2026 12:56:00 +0000

Originally published by The Register

OPINIONWhen President Donald Trump returned to power, he cast himself as the anti‑Biden on AI. First,he tore up Biden’s Executive Order 14110, which had demanded “safe, secure, and trustworthy” AI. He then replaced it with his own “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence” directive, ordering agencies to rescind or dilute rules seen as obstacles to innovation.

In short, American AI vendors could do anything they wanted. That was then. This is now.