Anthropic's New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough.

“Well folks. Here we are. The bug apocalypse has fully descended upon us.”

Ninety critical bugs in SharePoint alone in April. Six hundred patches in the July update, after 200 in June set the previous record. An internal manager begged teams to clear the April backlog before “the rest of the world will have caught up,” which is an admission that the same tooling works for attackers. Microsoft says security is its most important priority and declined to say how many bugs it has actually fixed.