Microsoft breaks another patch Tuesday record

September 8, 2026 Tom Warren

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Engineers at Microsoft typically enjoy a quieter summer to take vacations and spend time with family, as is common at many companies. But this year, the season has been unusually busy for Windows and security engineers, thanks to new AI models that are discovering software vulnerabilities at a rapid pace. Sources tell me that Microsoft will set another patch Tuesday record today, the third in just a few months.

It all kicked off in April when Anthropic's new Mythos model found security vulnerabilities in "every major operating system and web browser." A few weeks later, OpenAI released its own cybersecurity-focused model to trusted partners …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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