New Delhi, July 31 -- 1,072.

1,072 is more than the 1,036 flaws patched across the previous 23 Chrome versions, a span covering roughly the last two years. The browser used by billions of people effectively doubled its entire recent patching history in a single month, without a headline about it until now.

The explanation, according to Google, is Gemini.

Chrome's director of engineering, Doug Turner, said in a statement to TechCrunch that AI tools have "fundamentally shifted the economics of cybersecurity, transforming vulnerability discovery into an automated, industrial-scale operation." By applying models like Gemini, Google is, in Turner's words, "preemptively fixing vulnerabilities, outpacing our adversaries and making Chrome safe...