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

With assistance from its interior AI tools, Google says it has patched much information flaws successful its Chrome browser successful the past period than successful the past 2 years combined.

The tech elephantine announced connected Thursday that it has fixed a whopping 1,072 information bugs successful the past 2 versions of Chrome, some released successful June. That is much than the fig of bugs patched successful the erstwhile 23 versions released implicit the past 2 years, which totalled 1,036 fixes.

Ever since the advent of LLMs, cybersecurity experts person warned that AI-powered systems would find an progressively and exponentially tremendous magnitude of bugs, forcing defenders to besides usage AI to get up of malicious hackers. 

That prediction is starting to go true, and it’s backed by existent data. 

A illustration published by Google, which the institution revealed arsenic portion of a achromatic insubstantial connected the company’s efforts to usage AI to find flaws and spot them faster, shows the exponential increase. For context, Chrome’s 126 was released successful June 2024, portion the latest 2 Chrome releases, Chrome 149 and 150, were released past month. Google calls each mentation a “milestone.”

A illustration showing the Number of information bugs fixed successful released versions of Chrome, which Google calls “milestones.” (Image: Google)Image Credits:Google /

Doug Turner, Chrome’s manager of engineering, told TechCrunch successful a connection that LLMs person “fundamentally shifted the economics of cybersecurity, transforming vulnerability find into an automated, industrial-scale operation.”

“By applying models similar Gemini, we are preemptively fixing vulnerabilities, outpacing our adversaries and making Chrome safer with each update,” said Turner.

Google is not the lone institution seeing this trend.

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that it had patched a grounds 570 information flaws crossed its merchandise lines arsenic portion of its monthly circular of scheduled patches — colloquially known arsenic “Patch Tuesday.” Microsoft cited its ain usage of AI to explicate the abrupt leap successful bug fixes.

Apple, meanwhile, does not look to beryllium registering the aforesaid exponential increase. According to an autarkic count of bugs fixed by successful its products, Apple has patched 482 bugs successful 2026, which is astir connected gait to adjacent oregon surpass the fig of fixed buts from past year, and besides astir adjacent from the fig of bugs that Apple patched successful 2015.

TechCrunch reached retired to Apple for comment, but did not perceive back.