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Morning Edition · Wednesday, October 14, 2026Published at 2:06 AM EDT · New York
Google DeepMind and Singapore put a fine-tuned Gemma model on phones to scan private chats for scams
A two-stage pipeline runs a cheap classifier on every inbound message and calls the Gemma model only on suspicious conversations, so no chat data leaves the device.
Google DeepMind and Singapore's Government Technology Agency (GovTech), working with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI), have built an on-device model that detects conversational scams inside private chats with no cl…
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Client-Side Scanning of Private Communications Expands
Small on-device models will let governments and platforms analyze end-to-end encrypted communications on the handset, and states will increasingly adopt such scanning under consumer-protection mandates, widening surveillance without breaking encryption.
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