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title: "Bitcoin Core changes security rules as AI makes finding code bugs dangerously easy"
url: https://thecoingazette.com/bitcoin-core-changes-security-rules-as-ai-makes-finding-code-bugs-dangerously-easy/
date: 2026-10-23
modified: 2026-10-23
lang: en
author: "Coin Gazette Editorial"
description: "Developers merged a policy change that ends the months-long embargo for flaws a chatbot could rediscover, after a summer in which AI found hundreds of bitcoin bugs before the humans did."
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  - "Crypto News"
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# Bitcoin Core changes security rules as AI makes finding code bugs dangerously easy

Developers merged a policy change that ends the months-long embargo for flaws a chatbot could rediscover, after a summer in which AI found hundreds of bitcoin bugs before the humans did.