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Microsoft released an unusually large patch update this month, as security researchers anticipate a surge in AI-assisted cyberattacks, prompting an urgent push to close vulnerabilities. The scale of the update reflects growing concern that AI tools are accelerating the pace at which attackers can discover and weaponize software flaws. Underscoring that concern, researchers at Ars Technica identified four separate hacking groups using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit, attributing the shared toolkit's spread to a patch gap between vulnerability disclosure and widespread deployment of fixes, compounded by AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery. The finding illustrates how quickly exploit techniques are now being adopted across multiple threat actors once a weakness becomes known.