Google’s AI just became the world’s first digital bounty hunter—and it’s already caught vulnerabilities that only bad actors knew about.
Their “Big Sleep” AI agent didn’t just find bugs; it literally foiled an active exploitation attempt by discovering an SQLite vulnerability that was about to be weaponised. We’re officially in the “AI vs. hackers” era, and the good guys just scored a major win.

Google’s Big Sleep agent has moved beyond finding theoretical vulnerabilities to actually preventing real-world exploits. ( Read all about it here)This isn’t just automated scanning—it’s predictive threat hunting that can anticipate attacks before they happen. For startups, this signals that AI-powered security tools will become table stakes, not nice-to-haves.

Their new Time sketch platform uses AI to automatically perform initial incident investigations, letting human analysts focus on complex threats instead of data sifting. If you’re building SaaS products, this approach—AI handling the grunt work while humans tackle strategic decisions—is the blueprint for scalable operations.

Big Sleep is securing widely used open-source projects that power the entire internet. This collaborative approach suggests the future of AI security will be ecosystem-wide, not company-specific.

Speed matters more than ever- With AI agents processing billions of security events daily and cutting investigation times dramatically, the competitive advantage goes to teams that can respond fastest. Traditional security approaches won’t keep up with AI-powered threats.

The wildest part? Google’s been running insider threat detection AI since 2018, and they’re just now talking about it. Makes you wonder what other AI security tools are quietly running in production.

Who else thinks we’re about to see an arms race between AI attackers and AI defenders? Am I the only one who stumbled into the repository of Google’s security initiatives?