On Oct. 21, Fouad Matin, who leads Open AI's cyber-preparedness and safety efforts, was running on two hours of sleep while patching critical security vulnerabilities discovered by artificial intelligence. The work has entangled security researchers from start-ups and tech giants, as well as U.S. and international government officials. Across Silicon Valley, technologists are grappling with a major shift in cybersecurity as A.
I. proves so skillful in uncovering software flaws that engineers struggle to fix them before hackers exploit them. Open AI began using its technology in May to scan for flaws in open-source software, finding more than 1,300 bugs. Google used A.
I. to find and fix 1,072 bugs in Chrome, more than in the last two years combined. So far this year, it has fixed more severe bugs than the previous eight years combined. Microsoft published 1,461 patches this month alone, exceeding its 2025 total.
Matteo Collina, CTO of Platformatic, confirmed and fixed 50 vulnerabilities in Node.js this year—more than any previous year. Bug hunting, once a human art, is being transformed as A. I. relentlessly hunts for flaws and chains together little vulnerabilities to build dangerous attacks.
Source: New York Times Business · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing