# Google patches record 1,072 Chrome vulnerabilities in two months using AI

> Google says its June and July Chrome releases patched 1,072 security vulnerabilities, edging past the 1,036 the browser fixed across the entire previous two years. The company credits the jump to turning large language models loose on its own code, using Gemini to hunt for exploitable bugs at a pace human researchers cannot match. Microsoft reported a parallel surge, crediting AI tools for a record 570-fix Patch Tuesday. The interesting part is not the raw count but what it says about the economics of software security. Finding vulnerabilities has always been slow, expensive, specialist work, which is why so many bugs sit undiscovered for years. If models can now surface them cheaply and in bulk, defenders get a genuine structural advantage, at least for the code they control. The catch is that the same capability cuts both ways. Cheap automated bug hunting helps whoever runs it first, and attackers have the same tools. For now, a browser used by billions getting a deep AI-assisted cleanup is straightforwardly good news.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: TechCrunch · Published Tuesday, August 4, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Google says its June and July Chrome releases patched 1,072 security vulnerabilities, edging past the 1,036 the browser fixed across the entire previous two years. The company credits the jump to turning large language models loose on its own code, using Gemini to hunt for exploitable bugs at a pace human researchers cannot match. Microsoft reported a parallel surge, crediting AI tools for a record 570-fix Patch Tuesday. The interesting part is not the raw count but what it says about the economics of software security. Finding vulnerabilities has always been slow, expensive, specialist work, which is why so many bugs sit undiscovered for years. If models can now surface them cheaply and in bulk, defenders get a genuine structural advantage, at least for the code they control. The catch is that the same capability cuts both ways. Cheap automated bug hunting helps whoever runs it first, and attackers have the same tools. For now, a browser used by billions getting a deep AI-assisted cleanup is straightforwardly good news.

## Source

[Read the full story at TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/google-says-it-fixed-more-chrome-bugs-in-june-than-over-the-past-two-years-thanks-to-ai/)

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