Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) revealed that its AI-driven cybersecurity agent, Big Sleep, has successfully intercepted and neutralized an active security threat, marking a milestone in automated cyber defense.

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The vulnerability discovered by Big Sleep had been known only to threat actors and was at risk of imminent exploitation. According to Google, this marks the first time an AI agent has directly prevented a live cyberattack, a milestone in AI-driven defense.

The tool is also being applied to strengthen the security of widely-used open-source software, vastly increasing the scale and speed of defensive coverage.

Google has used a security-specific AI agent to detect a second critical vulnerability that was on the radar of threat actors but yet to be exploited. Its security researchers used Google's internal Big Sleep agent to detect a SQLite relational database management system critical security flaw,

Investing.com -- Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL )’s AI cybersecurity agent named Big Sleep has successfully detected and prevented an imminent security exploit, according to CEO Sundar Pichai.