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

谷歌在最新发布的一份报告中透露，借助内部AI工具，旗下Chrome浏览器在6月一个月内修复了1072个安全漏洞，比过去两年累计修复的1036个还要多。这一惊人数字背后，是大语言模型（LLM）正在彻底改变网络安全格局——过去需要安全专家手动寻找的漏洞，如今AI可以自动、批量地发现。谷歌Chrome工程总监表示，AI让漏洞发现变成了“自动化、工业级规模的操作”，通过Gemini等模型提前修复隐患，让每次更新都更安全。微软也出现了类似趋势，本月一次补丁日就修复了570个漏洞，同样归功于AI工具。对普通用户而言，这意味着浏览器变得更安全，日常上网、购物、登录账号时遭遇恶意攻击的风险显著降低。但也要警惕，黑客同样可以利用AI更快地制造新威胁，未来网络安全攻防将全面进入AI竞速时代。

With help from its internal AI tools, Google says it has patched more security flaws in its Chrome browser in the last month than in the past two years combined. The tech giant announced on Thursday that it has fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in the last two versions of Chrome, both released in June. That is more than the number of bugs patched in the previous 23 versions released over the last two years, which totaled 1,036 fixes. Ever since the advent of LLMs, cybersecurity experts have warned that AI-powered systems would find an increasingly and exponentially enormous amount of bugs, forcing defenders to also use AI to get ahead of malicious hackers. That prediction is starting to come true, and it’s backed by real data. A chart published by Google, which the company revealed as part of a white paper on the company’s efforts to use AI to find flaws and patch them faster, shows the exponential increase. For context, Chrome’s 126 was released in June 2024, while the latest two Chrome releases, Chrome 149 and 150, were released last month. Google calls each version a “milestone.” A chart showing the Number of security bugs fixed in released versions of Chrome, which Google calls “milestones.”Image Credits:Google Doug Turner, Chrome’s director of engineering, told TechCrunch in a statement that LLMs have “fundamentally shifted the economics of cybersecurity, transforming vulnerability discovery into an automated, industrial-scale operation.” “By applying models like Gemini, we are preemptively fixing vulnerabilities, outpacing our adversaries and making Chrome safer with every update,” said Turner. Google is not the only company seeing this trend. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that it had patched a record 570 security flaws across its product lines as part of its monthly round of scheduled patches — colloquially known as “Patch Tuesday.” Microsoft cited its own use of AI to explain the sudden jump in bug fixes. Apple, meanwhile, does not appear to be registering the same exponential increase. According to an independent count of bugs fixed in its products, Apple has patched 482 bugs in 2026, which is roughly on pace to equal or surpass the number of fixed bugs from last year, and also roughly equal from the number of bugs that Apple patched in 2015. TechCrunch reached out to Apple for comment, but did not hear back.