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.
A chart published by Google, which the company revealed as part of a white paper on the company’s efforts to use AI to find flaws and patch them faster, shows the exponential increase. For context, Chrome’s 126 was released in June 2024, while the latest two Chrome releases, Chrome 149 and 150, were released last month. Google calls each version a “milestone.”
