Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a groundbreaking achievement in cybersecurity today, revealing that the company’s advanced AI agent, “Big Sleep,” successfully identified and thwarted a cyber exploit before it could be deployed. This marks a historic first for artificial intelligence in threat prevention, signaling a pivotal shift in AI’s role within cybersecurity from passive defense to proactive interdiction.
Big Sleep, a formidable AI developed collaboratively by Google DeepMind and Google Project Zero, is engineered to autonomously detect unknown security vulnerabilities in software. Its prowess was first demonstrated in November 2024 when it identified a real-world vulnerability. Since then, it has uncovered multiple critical flaws, including a particularly dangerous one in SQLite (CVE-2025-6965) that was previously known only to malicious actors.
In this recent incident, with the crucial support of Google Threat Intelligence, Big Sleep not only detected the vulnerability but also anticipated and prevented an imminent exploitation attempt of the SQLite flaw. Beyond safeguarding Google’s own ecosystem, Big Sleep is now being leveraged to enhance the security of widely used open-source software, promising a significant improvement in overall internet safety.
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