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Why Was an OpenAI Engineer Hiding a Recording Device?

An OpenAI engineer was arrested after a hidden recording device was discovered inside an executive conference room. Who was he trying to record, and who was the information intended for? Martin Reynolds and Adam Arellano break down one of the strangest AI security stories of the year, along with three major cybersecurity headlines. Microsoft just released more than 1,400 security fixes in a record-breaking Patch Tuesday. Is AI finding vulnerabilities faster than companies can actually fix them?

Introducing AI Budgets: A Policy You Can Watch Work

AI Budgets turns an AI cost policy into a limit customers can watch hold in real time, so overspend gets caught within days instead of surfacing on next month's invoice. With AI Budgets, the Cost Management Agent turns your AI cost policy from a document everyone signed once and forgot into a limit you can see working. ‍ In our last post, we showed why 73% of organizations have an AI cost policy, but only 13% can tell whether it's working.

Harness Launches VegaLoad: Open-Source Load Testing for Agentic Developers

VegaLoad is a free, open-source load testing tool for agentic developers. Your agent writes the test, runs it, and gives you a report. VegaLoad is a free, open-source load testing tool. You ask your agent for a test. It writes the file, runs it, and gives you a report.

We used our own product to cut our AI tooling bill without cutting AI usage

The problem: our AI spend was growing faster than our understanding of its ROI. Like most engineering organizations, Harness went from "a few people are trying out AI coding tools" to "AI tooling is a line item in the monthly finance review" in a matter of months. The cost itself wasn't really the problem.

Harness AI Agents

AI is writing code faster than ever. But what happens after the code is written? Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal introduces four AI agents built to automate the software delivery lifecycle: Software Delivery Agent – Automate builds, deployments, and infrastructure management. Security Testing Agent – Find, prioritize, and fix vulnerabilities with AI. Runtime Protection Agent – Protect applications, APIs, and AI agents in production.

Enterprise Vibe Mode: Deploy AI-Built Apps to Production | Harness Demo

Vibe coding makes building applications easier than ever. But how do you take an AI-generated app and safely deploy it to production? In this demo, see how Harness brings Vibe Mode to the enterprise, allowing anyone to deploy applications while automatically applying your organization's security policies, governance, compliance requirements, and deployment configurations. See how Harness enables teams to.

Harness Cost Management Agent | How to Set and Enforce AI Spending Budgets

Control AI spending across your organization with Harness Cost Management Agent's AI User Budgets. In this demo, see how Harness helps teams set, monitor, and enforce AI spending limits across tools like Claude, Cursor, and Amazon Bedrock, all from one centralized control plane. What you'll learn: Set weekly AI spending budgets for users and teams Track AI consumption across multiple tools and models.

AI Agents Hacked 395 Organizations. How Do You Stop Them?

AI agents just changed the speed of cyberattacks. Are security teams ready? In a massive AI-orchestrated cyberattack, hundreds of autonomous AI agents exploited vulnerabilities in PaperCut software, compromising 440 servers across 395 organizations in 48 countries. But the bigger question isn't how these attacks happened. It's how human security teams are supposed to respond when attacks move faster than they can react.

Running a Green CI Pipeline Isn't the Hard Part Anymore

AI writes code faster, but CI still repeats costly work. See how Harness CI cuts unnecessary tests, recompilation and dependency downloads. Six months ago, your team adopted an AI coding assistant. Pull requests doubled. Generated code started landing in branches faster than reviewers could read it. The CI pipeline kept up for about three weeks. Now the queue backs up by mid-morning. Builds take 38 minutes. 4,000 tests run on every commit when 60 are relevant.

Burnout Is Rising. Here's What You Can Fix

The faster teams deploy, the more releases fail, and burnout climbs right with it. What 700 engineers told Harness about AI-scale delivery. Lenny's Newsletter put out its 2026 tech workforce survey this year, and you should read the whole thing. The headline stats: significant burnout jumped from 44.7% to 55.7% of tech workers in a year. Career optimism dropped from 54.8% to 48.7% over the same period of time.