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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 15, 2026Published at 2:37 AM EDT · New York
Singapore and Google DeepMind Deploy a Fine-Tuned On-Device Gemma Model to Flag Scams Inside Private Chats
A lightweight classifier screens incoming messages and hands suspicious conversations to a Gemma model trained on local scam patterns, with no chat content sent to the cloud.
Google DeepMind and the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) built a fine-tuned on-device model that detects conversational scams in private chats without sending data to the cloud. Josephine Teo, Singapore's Minister for Dig…
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