A company caps vulnerability reports after AI submissions buckle its reviewers

Claim

Apple capped vulnerability reports after AI submissions mixing real flaws with slop buckled its human reviewers, stranding one startup's six-figure exploit chain even as AI-assisted updates carried five times the usual fixes.

Reported metric: 5x the usual fixes

Reporting date: 2026-08-02 (not necessarily the event date)

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