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Microsoft patched 570 security vulnerabilities this Patch Tuesday — but every patch is also a public disclosure. The second those fixes drop, attackers know exactly where 570 weaknesses live. The only question that matters: can you find and patch them across your entire environment before someone exploits them? The speed of discovery is only increasing. Are you ready for the velocity of this new world? Let us know in the comments.

While AI coding assistants help developers write code faster than ever, the traditional manual workflows for delivery, security, governance, and production readiness often create a bottleneck. In this demo, see how Cursor and Harness bridge this gap by turning AI-generated code into a safe, governed, and production-ready software delivery lifecycle right from your IDE.

You're already using AI without even thinking about it. That's the realization that kicks off this ShipTalk moment: Apple Maps quietly using on-device machine learning to learn your routes and driving habits — complete trust, zero thought. Which raises the real question: why aren't we there yet with AI in software delivery? The answer comes down to one word: guardrails. Consumer AI earned invisible trust. Shipping software hasn't — not until the guardrails catch up.

In this Harness University Tidbit, learn how to use a custom plugin step in a CD stage. You'll walk through using a plugin to update a task on a self-hosted ITSM service inside your private Kubernetes cluster.

The U.S. just barred foreign nationals from accessing two advanced AI models — Fable and Mythos — citing national security. Around the same time, the Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned that AI-enabled cyberattacks are "months, not years" away. In Season 5 of ShipTalk, host Adam and co-host Martin dig into whether that warning is already overdue — and what it means for the people actually defending software.

Today, we're launching Autonomous Worker Agents, AI agents that run as governed pipeline steps inside Harness. They inherit OPA policies, RBAC, audit trails, and scoped credentials from the first run. And because they live inside your Harness pipelines, they reason using the Harness Knowledge Graph: your services, deployments, incidents, and policies.

Engineering teams are burning through AI budgets with nothing to show for it — $100M across 10,000 engineers and no cost per run, no cost per outcome, just a number that keeps climbing. When it runs dry, your infrastructure upgrade gets cut. Harness ties every AI token to the outcome it created: cost per run, cost per resolved ticket, and anomaly detection before the invoice hits. One customer went from a $28,000 black box bill to $0.60 per ticket.

The era of token maxing is over. When Claude Fable 5 launched last week at $10/$50 per million tokens - double the price of Opus 4.8 - it was a clear reminder that the most powerful model isn't always the right model. Not every task needs the Ferrari. The fastest way to burn your Al budget is sending every request to the most expensive model by default. The real question for the next phase of Al cost management isn't "can this model do the job?" — it's "is it the right model for the job?".

Harness has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevSecOps Platforms — for the third year in a row. Here's what stands out: almost every company in the Leaders quadrant is missing a piece. Some have Dev, some have Ops, but not the security. Harness is the one platform that brings Dev, Sec, AND Ops together — with AI built in. AI is changing how software gets built: more code, more automation, more agents — but also more complexity. Teams need delivery, security, testing, reliability, and cost in one place. That's what we're building every day.

Will AI replace engineers? Hugo Charré from Cursor argues the opposite. In this clip from the upcoming summit, Hugo Charré (Cursor) explains why the number of engineers is going to grow as we scale agentic systems — and why AI raises the bar for who's on the team.