How Google used AI agents to find and fix 1,072 Chrome security bugs - in 60 days
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- AI found a decade-old Chrome flaw humans repeatedly missed.
- Google said its AI workflow saves weeks of developer time.
- Chrome may need twice-weekly patches to keep billions safe.
Chrome and its open-source project, Chromium, are, by scale, among the most complex open-source projects on the planet. With some 73% of the global browser market share, there are about 3.5 billion active Chrome users. To put that in perspective, 3.5 billion is more than 10 times the entire population (adults and children) of the United States.
I couldn't find a good reference for the overall adult population, so I used math. Based on data for the overall population of the world and the number of children on the planet, there are a little under 6 billion adults on Earth. The math shows us that Chrome is...
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