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

Google announced on Thursday that with the help of its internal AI tools, it has patched more security flaws in its Chrome browser in the last month than in the past two years combined. The tech giant 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.

Since the advent of large language models, cybersecurity experts have warned that AI-powered systems would find an exponentially increasing number of bugs, forcing defenders to also use AI to get ahead of malicious hackers. That prediction is starting to come true, backed by real data. Google published a chart showing the exponential increase, which was part of a white paper on the company’s efforts to use AI to find and patch flaws faster.

For context, Chrome 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.”

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 Patch Tuesday updates. 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, Apple has patched 482 bugs in 2026, roughly on pace to equal or surpass the number from last year and roughly equal to the number patched in 2015.