Tech companies are reportedly spending more time and resources dealing with bugs uncovered by artificial intelligence (AI).
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That’s according to a report Wednesday (Oct. 28) by The New York Times, which says technologists are becoming overwhelmed at the volume of flaws.
In May, OpenAI began employing its technology to hunt for flaws in open-source software, with internal and external researchers finding more than 1,300 bugs.
Artificial intelligence “really opens this Pandora’s box of vulnerabilities,” Fouad Matin, who heads OpenAI’s cyber-preparedness and safety operations, told the NYT.
AI firms have a responsibility to find and fix these issues, as “the true goal is to scan and patch as much of the world’s software as possible,” Matin added.
Google in June used artificial intelligence to find and repair 1,072 bugs in its Chrome web browser and has fixed more severe bugs this year than in the last eight put together, the report said. Microsoft has published 1,461 patches this month, compared to 1,247 for the whole of 2025.
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“This is the first trickle that is coming through and it is going to get 10 times worse,” said Matteo Collina, the chief technology officer at the startup Platformatic, who also helps maintain Node.js, a free developer tool used by the likes of Uber and Netflix.
Node.js has been flooded with bug reports and has confirmed and fixed a record 50 vulnerabilities this year, the NYT said. Collina said he has been working seven days a week to deal with this surge, and has AI agents taking over for him overnight.
“No one knows what this profession will look like anymore,” he said.
PYMNTS wrote last week about security vulnerabilities discovered with the help of AI, which have led to an urgent, OpenAI-led effort to protect websites around the world.
“The scramble exposes how quickly AI can uncover weaknesses in the software that supports online banking, payments and commerce,” that report said.
The vulnerabilities impact PHP, a programming language used by close to 70% of websites whose server-side language is known, the report added.
“For financial institutions, the danger extends beyond their core banking systems. Customer portals, merchant platforms, payment applications and third-party service providers may depend on software that banks do not directly control,” the report said.
“A compromised website could expose customer information, interrupt transactions or give attackers access to other connected systems.”
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