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Apple caps bug reports and adds 30-day cool-off over AI-assisted submissions

Source: Financial Times
Time: 8:13 AM
Weight: 95/100High importance
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What happened?

Apple has introduced a limit on the number of security flaw reports it will accept from researchers and a mandatory 30-day "cool-off" period—a required waiting time before making new submissions—for those using artificial intelligence to find software errors.

Why it matters

This change follows reports that the company is struggling to manage a surge of vulnerability submissions assisted by AI tools.

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Detailed explanation

The restriction is a response to the growing challenge of maintaining security infrastructure against a flood of automated data.

As AI tools lower the barrier for finding potential vulnerabilities, Apple faces a volume of reports that risks overwhelming the teams responsible for verifying and patching security threats.

This surge forces a trade-off between the benefits of crowdsourced security and the administrative burden of filtering through low-quality or incorrect automated findings.

These new rules will primarily affect independent security researchers and "bug hunters" who use AI to scan for weaknesses in Apple's software.

By enforcing these caps, the company is attempting to filter out noise and ensure that human engineers can focus on the most critical security issues.

This mechanism reflects an industry-wide effort to adapt traditional vulnerability programs to the speed and scale of AI-assisted discovery.

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