From Engadget · Mariella Moon · · 1m 20s
Android gets AI scam detection in Messages
Google is rolling out Gemini-powered tools to warn Android users about deceptive messages and other scams.
In brief
Google is rolling out Gemini-powered tools to warn Android users about deceptive messages and other scams. Google is expanding scam protections across Android devices using Gemini AI to detect deceptive messages, with new features rolling out in coming weeks. Originally reported by Engadget.
Google adds AI scam warnings to Messages
Google has announced new scam protections for Android users, including an opt-in setting in its Messages app that uses Gemini AI to warn about deceptive messages.
How Gemini evaluates suspicious messages
Toggling on Scam Detection enables Google's most advanced Gemini models to evaluate the sender's intent and warn if messages could be from a bad actor.
Private AI Compute keeps messages encrypted
Android analyzes messages in Private AI Compute, which encrypts them and processes them in a secure space inaccessible to anybody else, even Google.
Rolling out to Pixel and Samsung devices
The new opt-in security setting is rolling out in the coming weeks on Google Pixel ten plus, Samsung Galaxy S twenty-six series, Galaxy Z Flip and Galaxy Fold eight, among other select devices.
More protections coming to Android fifteen
All devices running Android fifteen and newer will get automatic screen-sharing privacy later this month, hiding passwords and banking information by default when sharing screens with Chrome or Android WebView open.
The bottom line
Google is expanding scam protections across Android devices using Gemini AI to detect deceptive messages, with new features rolling out in coming weeks.
