Thanks to AI, the number of Chrome vulnerabilities fixed by Google in June exceeded the sum of the past two years. Google The latest data released recently shows that with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, the number of Chrome browser security vulnerabilities fixed by the company in the past month has surpassed the sum of the past two years.

Thanks to AI, the number of Chrome vulnerabilities fixed by Google in June exceeded the sum of the past two years. The latest data released by Google recently showed that with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, the number of Chrome browser security vulnerabilities fixed by the company in the past month has surpassed the sum of the past two years. Google revealed in a recently released white paper on using AI to discover and fix vulnerabilities that the team fixed as many as 1,072 security vulnerabilities in the latest two Chrome versions (Chrome 149 and Chrome 150) launched in June this year alone. For comparison, in the 23 Chrome versions released in the past two years, the total number of vulnerabilities fixed was only 1,036. With the rapid development of large language models (LLM), cybersecurity experts have previously warned that AI will exponentially increase vulnerability mining, forcing security defenders to also resort to AI to deal with threats. Now, this prediction is being confirmed by real data. Chrome engineering director Doug Turner said that large language models have fundamentally changed the economics of network security, turning vulnerability discovery into automated, industrial-scale operations. By applying models such as Gemini, Google can repair vulnerabilities in advance and outperform its opponents in security confrontations. This trend is not unique to Google. Microsoft also announced earlier this month that it had patched a record 570 security vulnerabilities in its monthly Patch Tuesday, which it also attributed to the use of AI tools. In contrast, Apple appears to have yet to experience a similar explosive growth, with independent statistics showing that the number of vulnerabilities it will fix in 2026 will be roughly the same as in previous years. via cnBeta.COM - Chinese industry information station (author: source: cnBeta.COM)