Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
Google has significantly increased its security patching rate for the Chrome browser by utilizing internal AI tools. The company reported fixing over 1,000 bugs in a single month, a milestone attributed to the industrial-scale automation of vulnerability discovery.
Why it matters
This demonstrates a fundamental shift in cybersecurity where AI is becoming essential for both attackers and defenders to manage software vulnerabilities at scale.
With help from its internal AI tools, Google says it has patched more security flaws in its Chrome browser in the last month than in the past two years combined.
The tech giant announced on Thursday that it has fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in the last two versions of Chrome, both released in June. That is more than the number of bugs patched in the previous 23 versions released over the last two years, which totalled 1,036 fixes.
Ever since the advent of LLMs, cybersecurity experts have warned that AI-powered systems would find an increasingly and exponentially enormous amount of bugs, forcing defenders to also use AI to get ahead of malicious hackers.
That prediction is starting to become true, and it’s backed by real data.
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