Google says AI helped it fix more Chrome bugs in June than in the past two years

Google says it fixed more Chrome browser vulnerabilities in June than it had over the previous two years combined — and it credits AI for the jump. TechCrunch reported the claim on July 30.

The report notes that experts have been warning for the past two years that companies, including Microsoft and now Google, are using LLMs and AI tools to find and patch an exponentially growing number of bugs.

For Google, this means AI has substantively changed the maintenance rhythm of Chrome. Code problems that once took months to work through can now be discovered and fixed in a much shorter window.

The change does not come without cost. A surge in discovered vulnerabilities means the fixing effort itself becomes a relentless task, and security teams must respond efficiently to an AI-generated backlog of issues.

From an industry perspective, Google and Microsoft's moves are validating a key thesis: AI's biggest impact on software security may not be writing safer code, but dramatically accelerating vulnerability discovery and forcing the whole industry to match a new attack-and-defense tempo.

Notably, more fixes do not mean the software is less secure — they indicate that detection coverage and depth are improving. For Chrome users, the density of June's fixes is a broadly positive signal.

Going forward, observers will watch whether Google extends this approach to more product lines, and whether AI-assisted patching can genuinely shorten the window from discovery to remediation.