Tuesday, 5 August, 2025
Google’s AI Bug Hunter “Big Sleep” Discovers 20 Security Vulnerabilities in Open Source
Google’s AI-powered vulnerability research tool, Big Sleep, jointly developed by DeepMind and Project Zero, has autonomously identified and verified 20 security flaws in widely-used open-source software like FFmpeg & ImageMagick. Although each flaw was human‑validated before public disclosure, the findings underscore the growing efficacy of AI in bug detection. Google calls this milestone a “new frontier in automated vulnerability discovery” even as concerns about AI hallucination noise persist.
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