Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

Google announced it fixed 1,072 security bugs in Chrome during June 2024 using AI tools, which is more than the 1,036 bugs patched over the previous two years combined. AI systems like LLMs (large language models, which are neural networks trained on massive amounts of text) are dramatically accelerating vulnerability discovery (finding weaknesses in software) at an industrial scale, forcing both defenders and attackers to use AI to stay ahead of each other. Other companies like Microsoft are also seeing record numbers of bug fixes thanks to AI-assisted detection, though Apple has not shown the same exponential increase.