{"slug": "google-rewrote-giflib-in-rust-with-ai-caught-a-zero-day", "title": "Google Rewrote giflib in Rust With AI — Caught a Zero-Day", "summary": "Google rewrote the giflib library in Rust using its Gemini AI and deployed the result to production, leaving its systems already immune when CVE-2026-26740 dropped, according to byteiota. The rewrite was carried out with Gemini AI as the code-generation tool, and the resulting Rust implementation was in production before the vulnerability was disclosed.", "body_md": "Google used Gemini AI to rewrite giflib in Rust and deploy it to production. When CVE-2026-26740 dropped, their systems were already immune. Here is how they did it.\n\nThe post \nGoogle Rewrote giflib in Rust With AI — Caught a Zero-Day\n appeared first on \nbyteiota\n.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-rewrote-giflib-in-rust-with-ai-caught-a-zero-day", "canonical_source": "https://byteiota.com/google-rewrote-giflib-in-rust-with-ai-caught-a-zero-day/", "published_at": "2026-09-29 14:08:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-29 14:23:16.822317+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-tools", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini", "giflib", "Rust", "CVE-2026-26740", "byteiota"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-rewrote-giflib-in-rust-with-ai-caught-a-zero-day", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-rewrote-giflib-in-rust-with-ai-caught-a-zero-day.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-rewrote-giflib-in-rust-with-ai-caught-a-zero-day.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-rewrote-giflib-in-rust-with-ai-caught-a-zero-day.jsonld"}}