AI-assisted bug hunting doubles Chrome's patch frequency

WIRED reports Google is now patching Chrome roughly twice a week, after AI-assisted vulnerability discovery surfaced more bugs in two June updates than in the prior 23 updates combined. Google is ramping up its release schedule to keep pace with the higher bug-discovery rate.

Why it matters: This is a concrete, measurable sign that AI-assisted security research is changing software maintenance at scale, echoing Anthropic's own findings that AI finds bugs faster than vendors can patch them. It also implies a growing backlog risk: if AI keeps finding bugs faster than teams can triage and fix them, patch cadence alone may not be a sustainable answer.