AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs

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AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs
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Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent. The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a single release. Only the FFmpeg bugs were found by AI.

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