Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting

Google’s Chrome browser has always been focused on pushing security updates. A decade ago it was controversial that the browser, the first to add automatic updates, distributed patches every six weeks. Now it's the norm for critical, widely used software to get security fixes every few weeks, but as AI vulnerability hunting produces a torrent of bugs in any and all software, the quantity and frequency of patches is spiking—and the race to deliver them is on.

In a report published Thursday, the Chrome security team says the browser's two major version releases in June included fixes for 1,072 security bugs—more patches than the team shipped in the prior 23 big releases combined. And though many of these bugs come from researcher submissions, the spike has largely been driven by the Chrome security team’s rapidly evolving internal process for using AI tools in vulnerability discovery, triage, and patch...

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