Google AI Supercharges Chrome Security, Fixing 1,072 Bugs
Google says AI found and helped fix 1,072 Chrome security bugs in two releases, dramatically accelerating vulnerability detection and patching Google’s Chrome Security team published a detailed account of how AI models have transformed their vulnerability management pipeline, and the headline figure is difficult to dismiss: in the last two Chrome releases alone, the team […]
Google’s Chrome Security team published a detailed account of how AI models have transformed their vulnerability management pipeline, and the headline figure is difficult to dismiss: in the last two Chrome releases alone, the team fixed 1,072 security bugs, more than the total fixed across the prior 23 milestones combined. That’s not a marginal improvement. That’s a different category of operation.
“In early 2026, we built an agent harness that used Gemini to find vulnerabilities across the broader Chrome codebase with higher efficiency and lower false positives. One of the bugs we found was a sandbox escape that would allow a compromised renderer to trick the browser into reading local files — a bug that quietly survived in our codebase for more than 13 years!” states Google. “For many of us, this moment cemented the potential of AI-powered vulnerability detection.”
Source: https://securityaffairs.com/196408/ai/google-ai-supercharges-chrome-security-fixing-1072-bugs.html
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