Google Patches 1,072 Chrome Bugs in June, Credits AI
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- Google patched 1,072 security bugs across Chrome 149 and 150 (both released June 2026), exceeding the 1,036 bugs fixed across the previous 23 Chrome versions over the past two years combined.
- Doug Turner, Chrome's director of engineering, said LLMs have "fundamentally shifted the economics of cybersecurity" by turning vulnerability discovery into an "automated, industrial-scale operation."
- Google credited internal AI models including Gemini for preemptively identifying and fixing vulnerabilities, saying the company is "outpacing our adversaries and making Chrome safer with every update."
- Microsoft also patched a record 570 flaws in its latest monthly Patch Tuesday round, citing its own use of AI as the driver of the sudden jump.
- Apple has not seen a comparable surge — having patched 482 bugs in 2026, roughly on pace to match 2025 and roughly equal to its 2015 total — and did not respond to TechCrunch's request for comment.
- Google published the data as part of a white paper alongside a chart showing exponential growth in Chrome bug fixes since Chrome 126, released in June 2024.
Why it matters: The numbers confirm a long-standing prediction: AI is industrializing vulnerability discovery, not just incrementally speeding it up. Chrome users get more frequent patches, but defenders at companies without AI-augmented security workflows risk falling behind — Apple's 2026 patch pace roughly matching its 2015 total suggests the gap between AI-equipped defenders and the rest is widening.
