Google introduced on Tuesday that its synthetic intelligence (AI) agent Massive Sleep not too long ago made a significant cybersecurity breakthrough. Massive Sleep, a cybersecurity-focused AI agent developed by Google DeepMind and Google Mission Zero, was in a position to uncover an SQLite vulnerability within the firm’s product. The Mountain View-based tech large highlighted that the safety flaw was identified to dangerous actors and was susceptible to being exploited. However earlier than the bug might be used to hack into the tech large’s methods, the AI agent flagged the problem, and it was instantly mounted.
Massive Sleep AI Agent Discovers SQLite Vulnerability
In a blog post, the tech large detailed the achievements of Massive Sleep. Notably, the AI agent was first unveiled in 2024, and it was in a position to uncover its first real-world vulnerability in the identical 12 months. Google claims that since then, the security-focused agent has made a number of such discoveries. Nonetheless, it didn’t discover any zero-day vulnerabilities (safety flaws that exist, however are but to be abused or exploited) until very not too long ago.
With out specifying the timeline or the identify of the product, Google highlighted {that a} vital SQLite vulnerability (CVE-2025-6965) was found by Massive Sleep in one in all its merchandise. The AI agent took motion to search for the flaw primarily based on an intelligence report from Google Risk Intelligence.
The tech large claimed that as a consequence of well timed identification, the corporate was in a position to repair it earlier than dangerous actors may exploit it. Notably, the corporate claimed that that is the primary time an AI agent was capable of finding such a vulnerability in real-world circumstances. Massive Sleep is now being deployed to additionally defend the safety of in style open-source tasks, the corporate mentioned, with out naming any of those tasks.
“These cybersecurity brokers are a recreation changer, liberating up safety groups to deal with high-complexity threats, dramatically scaling their impression and attain,” Google mentioned. Moreover, the tech large additionally printed its strategy in direction of constructing AI agents in a white paper.
Notably, the search large additionally introduced that it’s going to donate information from its Safe AI Framework (SAIF) to assist scale the Coalition for Safe AI (CoSAI) initiative’s agentic AI, cyber defence, and software program provide chain safety workstreams. CoSAI was launched by Google in collaboration with business companions to make sure the protected implementation of AI methods.