Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions

5 Oct 2026Covered by 2 sources30

Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions. The story centres on Google. TechCrunch and tomshardware.com have both covered it. Bharat Hunt files it under Open Source AI — the section covering open-weight models, permissive licences and community releases.

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