Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
TechCrunch Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai ● Covered by 2 sources
Google says AI helped it fix 1,072 Chrome bugs in just two updates last month, more than the past two years combined. Microsoft's seeing the same AI-driven bug surge, but Apple isn't, at least not yet.
Based on reporting by TechCrunch, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai — read the original for the full story.
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Google dropped a number this week that's hard to ignore: 1,072 security bugs patched across the last two Chrome releases, both pushed out in June. Stack that against the previous 23 versions released over the prior two years, and you get 1,036 fixes combined. One month of AI-assisted patching outpaced two years of the old way of doing things.
The company laid this out in a white paper detailing how it's using AI to hunt down and fix flaws faster, complete with a chart showing the jump from Chrome 126 back in June 2024 to the newly released Chrome 149 and 150. Google calls each release a milestone, and the milestones are getting noticeably busier.
Doug Turner, Chrome's director of engineering, told TechCrunch that large language models have changed the math entirely, turning vulnerability discovery into what he called an automated, industrial-scale operation. The pitch from Google is that by running models like Gemini against its own codebase, it's catching problems before attackers do, rather than scrambling to patch after the fact.
Google isn't alone in seeing the numbers move. Microsoft just wrapped up a Patch Tuesday with 570 fixes across its product lines, a record for the company, and it pointed to its own AI tooling as the reason. Cybersecurity researchers have been predicting this kind of exponential bug discovery since LLMs first showed up on the scene, warning that defenders would need AI of their own just to keep pace with attackers using the same tools.
Apple tells a different story, at least for now. An independent tally puts Apple's 2026 bug fixes at 482, which lines up roughly with last year's total and, oddly enough, with numbers from 2015. No sudden spike, no obvious AI bump. TechCrunch reached out to Apple for comment and got nothing back, so whether that's a deliberate choice or just a different approach to counting and disclosing bugs remains unclear.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
Nobody should mistake a bigger bug count for a safer browser just because the number looks impressive on a chart; it mostly means the old manual process was leaving a lot on the table. Microsoft chasing the same pattern makes it look like an industry shift rather than a Google flex, which is the more interesting story here. Apple staying flat is the detail worth watching, not because it proves anything is wrong, but because everyone else suddenly finding thousands of new bugs raises an obvious question about who's actually looking hardest.}
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