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- Google has fixed more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in Chrome across recent updates, with 1,072 bugs patched in Chrome 149 and 150 and 370 more in Chrome 151, including seven rated critical.
- The surge comes as AI tools like large language models dramatically speed up bug discovery, with Google itself finding one critical 13-year-old flaw using its Gemini models.
- The company is responding by moving to faster release cycles, piloting twice-weekly security updates, and exploring dynamic patching that applies fixes without restarting the browser.
- It is also working to eliminate entire classes of bugs by shifting to memory-safe languages like Rust and automating updates for third-party dependencies.
What to watch next
- Whether Google completes its transition to a two-week release cadence and twice-weekly security updates
- Progress on dynamic patching that updates Chrome without requiring user restarts
- Whether the 2026 vulnerability count, already near 47,000, exceeds 2025's total of 49,920
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