I expect that only to escalate with time, especially when there'll be more agent-written code deployed.

Phasing like this immediately makes me wonder what google is lobbying for..

@dang would be great if the hn link was the 'unlocked' version i.e. instead of

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hacker...

this instead

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hacker...

(can read the article immediately; slightly less fuss)

Can we link to the actual google article, instead of these editorialized articles about the article?

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ai-...

> Google said in research published Monday

What research? Where is it published?

If this is true, I hope AI exploit-finding will force the industry to harden itself against supply-chain vulnerabilities.

There was a discussion a few days ago on White House considers vetting AI models prior to release (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013608).

In past decades the "firewall" of software is that advanced security and coding knowledge is not very easy to access by anyone, only a few smartest people in the big name companies and top orgs. But nowadays, knowledge is accessible to everyone if you use top LLM, which swipe the difference. I would say that future public software is unsafe anymore. maybe the concept of public software (like SaaS or other) will be dead, software is only private instead of public

Wild that they think restricting access to models will help much. Access to Chinese models will definitely not be restricted and have enough capability to find exploits as well.