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TI reports Q4 2024 and 2024 financial results and shareholder returns

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DALLAS, Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) today reported fourth quarter revenue of $4.01 billion, net income of $1.21 billion and earnings per share of $1.30. Earnings per share included a 2-cent benefit that was not in the company’s original guidance.

Regarding the company’s performance and returns to shareholders, Haviv Ilan, TI’s president and CEO, made the following comments:

“Revenue decreased 3% sequentially and 2% from the same quarter a year ago.”Our cash flow from operations of $6.3 billion for the trailing 12 months again underscored the strength of our business model, the quality of our product portfolio and the benefit of 300mm production. Free cash flow for the same period was $1.5 billion.”Over the past 12 months we invested $3.8 billion in R&D and SG&A, invested $4.8 billion in capital expenditures and returned $5.7 billion to owners.”TI’s first quarter outlook is for revenue in the range of $3.74 billion to $4.06 billion and earnings per share between $0.94 and $1.16. We now expect our 2025 effective tax rate to be about 12%.”

Free cash flow, a non-GAAP financial measure, is cash flow from operations less capital expenditures.

Earnings summary

(In millions, except per-share amounts)

Q4 2024

Q4 2023

Change 

Revenue

$

4,007

$

4,077

(2) %

Operating profit

$

1,377

$

1,533

(10) %

Net income

$

1,205

$

1,371

(12) %

Earnings per share

$

1.30

$

1.49

(13) %

 

Cash generation

Trailing 12 Months

(In millions)

Q4 2024

Q4 2024

Q4 2023

Change 

Cash flow from operations

$

1,998

$

6,318

$

6,420

(2) %

Capital expenditures

$

1,192

$

4,820

$

5,071

(5) %

Free cash flow

$

806

$

1,498

$

1,349

11 %

Free cash flow % of revenue

9.6 %

7.7 %

 

Cash return

Trailing 12 Months

(In millions)

Q4 2024

Q4 2024

Q4 2023

Change 

Dividends paid

$

1,240

$

4,795

$

4,557

5 %

Stock repurchases

$

537

$

929

$

293

217 %

Total cash returned

$

1,777

$

5,724

$

4,850

18 %

 

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

Consolidated Statements of Income

For Three Months Ended

December 31,

For Years Ended

December 31,

(In millions, except per-share amounts)

2024

2023

2024

2023

Revenue

$

4,007

$

4,077

$

15,641

$

17,519

Cost of revenue (COR)

1,693

1,646

6,547

6,500

Gross profit

2,314

2,431

9,094

11,019

Research and development (R&D)

491

460

1,959

1,863

Selling, general and administrative (SG&A)

446

438

1,794

1,825

Restructuring charges/other

—

—

(124)

—

Operating profit

1,377

1,533

5,465

7,331

Other income (expense), net (OI&E)

112

113

496

440

Interest and debt expense

130

98

508

353

Income before income taxes

1,359

1,548

5,453

7,418

Provision for income taxes

154

177

654

908

Net income

$

1,205

$

1,371

$

4,799

$

6,510

Diluted earnings per common share

$

1.30

$

1.49

$

5.20

$

7.07

Average shares outstanding:

   Basic

912

908

912

908

   Diluted

919

915

919

916

Cash dividends declared per common share

$

1.36

$

1.30

$

5.26

$

5.02

Supplemental Information

Provision for income taxes is based on the following:

Operating taxes (calculated using the estimated annual effective tax rate)

$

170

$

180

$

743

$

974

Discrete tax items

(16)

(3)

(89)

(66)

Provision for income taxes (effective taxes)

$

154

$

177

$

654

$

908

A portion of net income is allocated to unvested restricted stock units (RSUs) on which we pay dividend equivalents. Diluted EPS

is calculated using the following:

Net income

$

1,205

$

1,371

$

4,799

$

6,510

Income allocated to RSUs

(7)

(7)

(24)

(33)

Income allocated to common stock for diluted EPS

$

1,198

$

1,364

$

4,775

$

6,477

 

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

Consolidated Balance Sheets

December 31,

(In millions, except par value)

2024

2023

Assets

Current assets:

   Cash and cash equivalents

$

3,200

$

2,964

   Short-term investments

4,380

5,611

   Accounts receivable, net of allowances of ($21) and ($16)

1,719

1,787

   Raw materials

395

420

   Work in process

2,214

2,109

   Finished goods

1,918

1,470

   Inventories

4,527

3,999

   Prepaid expenses and other current assets

1,200

761

   Total current assets

15,026

15,122

Property, plant and equipment at cost

15,254

13,268

   Accumulated depreciation

(3,907)

(3,269)

   Property, plant and equipment

11,347

9,999

Goodwill

4,362

4,362

Deferred tax assets

936

757

Capitalized software licenses

257

223

Overfunded retirement plans

233

173

Other long-term assets

3,348

1,712

Total assets

$

35,509

$

32,348

Liabilities and stockholders’ equity

Current liabilities:

   Current portion of long-term debt

$

750

$

599

   Accounts payable

820

802

   Accrued compensation

839

836

   Income taxes payable

159

172

   Accrued expenses and other liabilities

1,075

911

   Total current liabilities

3,643

3,320

Long-term debt

12,846

10,624

Underfunded retirement plans

110

108

Deferred tax liabilities

53

63

Other long-term liabilities

1,954

1,336

Total liabilities

18,606

15,451

Stockholders’ equity:

   Preferred stock, $25 par value. Shares authorized – 10; none issued

—

—

   Common stock, $1 par value. Shares authorized – 2,400; shares issued – 1,741

1,741

1,741

   Paid-in capital

3,935

3,362

   Retained earnings

52,262

52,283

   Treasury common stock at cost

   Shares: 2024 – 830; 2023 – 832

(40,895)

(40,284)

   Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of taxes (AOCI)

(140)

(205)

Total stockholders’ equity

16,903

16,897

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

$

35,509

$

32,348

 

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

For Three Months Ended

December 31,

For Years Ended

December 31,

(In millions)

2024

2023

2024

2023

Cash flows from operating activities

   Net income

$

1,205

$

1,371

$

4,799

$

6,510

   Adjustments to net income:

   Depreciation

416

322

1,508

1,175

   Amortization of capitalized software

19

15

72

63

   Stock compensation

78

68

387

362

   (Gains) losses on sales of assets

(1)

1

(127)

—

   Deferred taxes

(21)

(140)

(210)

(299)

   Increase (decrease) from changes in:

   Accounts receivable

143

189

68

108

   Inventories

(231)

(91)

(528)

(1,242)

   Prepaid expenses and other current assets

76

8

7

46

   Accounts payable and accrued expenses

87

(10)

125

(33)

   Accrued compensation

115

126

(12)

29

   Income taxes payable

110

58

597

(7)

   Changes in funded status of retirement plans

31

(4)

33

45

   Other

(29)

11

(401)

(337)

Cash flows from operating activities

1,998

1,924

6,318

6,420

Cash flows from investing activities

   Capital expenditures

(1,192)

(1,148)

(4,820)

(5,071)

   Proceeds from asset sales

1

—

195

3

   Purchases of short-term investments

(909)

(2,565)

(9,716)

(12,705)

   Proceeds from short-term investments

2,726

3,411

11,187

13,387

   Other

(12)

(9)

(48)

24

Cash flows from investing activities

614

(311)

(3,202)

(4,362)

Cash flows from financing activities

   Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt

—

—

2,980

3,000

   Repayment of debt

(300)

—

(600)

(500)

   Dividends paid

(1,240)

(1,181)

(4,795)

(4,557)

   Stock repurchases

(537)

(65)

(929)

(293)

   Proceeds from common stock transactions

87

45

517

263

   Other

(11)

(14)

(53)

(57)

Cash flows from financing activities

(2,001)

(1,215)

(2,880)

(2,144)

Net change in cash and cash equivalents

611

398

236

(86)

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

2,589

2,566

2,964

3,050

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

$

3,200

$

2,964

$

3,200

$

2,964

Supplemental cash flow information

   Investment tax credit (ITC) used to reduce income taxes payable

$

56

$

—

$

588

$

—

Total cash benefit related to the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act

$

56

$

—

$

588

$

—

 

Quarterly segment results 

(In millions)

Q4 2024

Q4 2023

Change 

Analog:

   Revenue

$

3,174

$

3,120

2 %

   Operating profit

$

1,237

$

1,280

(3) %

Embedded Processing:

   Revenue

$

613

$

752

(18) %

   Operating profit

$

58

$

195

(70) %

Other:

   Revenue

$

220

$

205

7 %

   Operating profit*

$

82

$

58

41 %

    * Includes restructuring charges/other.

 

Annual segment results

(In millions)

2024

2023

Change 

Analog:

   Revenue

$

12,161

$

13,040

(7) %

   Operating profit

$

4,608

$

5,821

(21) %

Embedded Processing:

   Revenue

$

2,533

$

3,368

(25) %

   Operating profit

$

352

$

1,008

(65) %

Other:

   Revenue

$

947

$

1,111

(15) %

   Operating profit*

$

505

$

502

1 %

    * Includes restructuring charges/other.

 

Non-GAAP financial information

This release includes references to free cash flow and ratios based on that measure. These are financial measures that were not prepared in accordance with GAAP. Free cash flow was calculated by subtracting capital expenditures from the most directly comparable GAAP measure, cash flows from operating activities (also referred to as cash flow from operations).

We believe that free cash flow and the associated ratios provide insight into our liquidity, our cash-generating capability and the amount of cash potentially available to return to shareholders, as well as insight into our financial performance. These non-GAAP measures are supplemental to the comparable GAAP measures.

Reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is provided in the table below.

For Years Ended

December 31,

(In millions)

2024

2023

Change 

Cash flow from operations (GAAP)*

$

6,318

$

6,420

(2) %

Capital expenditures

(4,820)

(5,071)

Free cash flow (non-GAAP)

$

1,498

$

1,349

11 %

Revenue

$

15,641

$

17,519

Cash flow from operations as a percentage of revenue (GAAP)

40.4 %

36.6 %

Free cash flow as a percentage of revenue (non-GAAP)

9.6 %

7.7 %

* Includes a cash benefit of $588 million from the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act ITC used to reduce income taxes

payable for 2024.

This release also includes references to operating taxes, a non-GAAP term we use to describe taxes calculated using the estimated annual effective tax rate, a GAAP measure that by definition does not include discrete tax items. We believe the term operating taxes helps to differentiate from effective taxes, which include discrete tax items.

Notice regarding forward-looking statements

This release includes forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements generally can be identified by phrases such as TI or its management “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “foresees,” “forecasts,” “estimates” or other words or phrases of similar import. Similarly, statements herein that describe TI’s business strategy, outlook, objectives, plans, intentions or goals also are forward-looking statements. All such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements.

We urge you to carefully consider the following important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations of TI or our management:

Economic, social and political conditions, and natural events in the countries in which we, our customers or our suppliers operate, including global trade policies;Market demand for semiconductors, particularly in the industrial and automotive markets, and customer demand that differs from forecasts;Our ability to compete in products and prices in an intensely competitive industry;Evolving cybersecurity and other threats relating to our information technology systems or those of our customers, suppliers and other third parties;Our ability to successfully implement and realize opportunities from strategic, business and organizational changes, or our ability to realize our expectations regarding the amount and timing of associated restructuring charges and cost savings;Our ability to develop, manufacture and market innovative products in a rapidly changing technological environment, our timely implementation of new manufacturing technologies and installation of manufacturing equipment, and our ability to realize expected returns on significant investments in manufacturing capacity;Availability and cost of key materials, utilities, manufacturing equipment, third-party manufacturing services and manufacturing technology;Our ability to recruit and retain skilled personnel and effectively manage key employee succession;Product liability, warranty or other claims relating to our products, software, manufacturing, delivery, services, design or communications, or recalls by our customers for a product containing one of our parts;Compliance with or changes in the complex laws, rules and regulations to which we are or may become subject, or actions of enforcement authorities, that restrict our ability to operate our business or subject us to fines, penalties or other legal liability;Changes in tax law and accounting standards that impact the tax rate applicable to us, the jurisdictions in which profits are determined to be earned and taxed, adverse resolution of tax audits, increases in tariff rates, and the ability to realize deferred tax assets;Financial difficulties of our distributors or semiconductor distributors’ promotion of competing product lines to our detriment; or disputes with current or former distributors;Losses or curtailments of purchases from key customers or the timing and amount of customer inventory adjustments;Our ability to maintain or improve profit margins, including our ability to utilize our manufacturing facilities at sufficient levels to cover our fixed operating costs, in an intensely competitive and cyclical industry and changing regulatory environment;Our ability to maintain and enforce a strong intellectual property portfolio and maintain freedom of operation in all jurisdictions where we conduct business; or our exposure to infringement claims;Instability in the global credit and financial markets; andImpairments of our non-financial assets.

For a more detailed discussion of these factors, see the Risk factors discussion in Item 1A of TI’s most recent Form 10-K. The forward-looking statements included in this release are made only as of the date of this release, and we undertake no obligation to update the forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances. If we do update any forward-looking statement, you should not infer that we will make additional updates with respect to that statement or any other forward-looking statement.

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise systems. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com.

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U.S. Quartz Workers: Strong Safeguard Remedies Needed to Save 100,000 American Manufacturing Jobs

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WASHINGTON, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Quartz Manufacturers Alliance for America (QMAA) released a powerful video featuring quartz manufacturing workers from across the country calling for free and fair trade policies to save 100,000 American jobs. QMAA, a coalition of leading U.S.-based quartz slab manufacturers, are calling for strong safeguard remedies after the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) found a huge flood of foreign imports had caused tremendous injury to the domestic quartz industry.

QMAA members are urging the Trump Administration to build on the ITC’s strong recommendation and address this major flood of quartz imports with a Tariff of 50% and a Reshoring Import Cap of 141 million square feet on imported quartz surface products. This will ensure a reshoring of the good-paying U.S. quartz manufacturing jobs stolen by companies who cheat U.S. trade law, distort competition and are decimating U.S. quartz manufacturing. Together, these trade remedies will provide the relief necessary to save the 100,000 jobs supported by the U.S. quartz industry.

The video features workers from LX Hausys, Guidoni USA and Cambria Company and is available here:
Save 100,000 American Quartz Jobs

Quotes from QMAA Quartz Manufacturing Workers
“This facility used to be a Husqvarna plant. Husqvarna closed down due to cheap foreign imports. There were over 1,000 people working here and all of a sudden…I’m worried I may see the same thing take place again.”
-Raymond Mack, Production Operator, Guidoni USA, Helena-McRae, GA

“Foreign countries, mainly China, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, have been circumventing and cheating the American market. We believe in the industry. We believe in the American working power. We just want to level the playing field, make it fair for everyone and everyone will benefit.”
– Daniel Vas de Melo SA, Business Development Manager, Guidoni USA, McRae-Helena, GA

“In order for us to continue to compete, we need a strong Tariff and Import Cap on imported quartz surfaces. That will ensure we can play on an even playing field. That’s all we’re asking for. I would hate to see cheap, imported quartz have a negative impact on families such as mine and the other families that we employ here.”
– Mike Morici, Vice President – LX Hausys, Adairsville, GA

“The surge of foreign imports has shocked the U.S. economy, and the market for surfaces. It’s taken prices down to unsustainably low levels for any domestic supplier. The result of that is we’re not producing as much as we should, we can’t hire as many people as we would like to, and we can’t grow our business in the way that we and our peers in the U.S. want to grow.”
– Andrew Eich, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cambria

“As these foreign imports flood the market, we lose the ability to create and sustain jobs that ensure good paying conditions for manufacturing workers. There will be over 100,000 jobs that have the strong potential to go away.”
– Jack Sundry, SVP Core and Lexus – Cambria, Southern Minnesota

Background
In September 2025, QMAA filed a Global Safeguard petition with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) under Section 201 of the U.S. Trade Act of 1974. The ITC’s thorough investigation found serious injury to the domestic industry caused by a massive import surge designed to undercut American businesses. Quartz imports have surged by 78.3% within the past five years, leading to a nearly 20% decline in domestic production, factory closures and major job reductions.

A final safeguard decision from the United States Trade Representative is expected by Aug. 1, 2026.

About the Quartz Manufacturing Alliance for America:
QMAA is a coalition of U.S.-based, American quartz slab manufacturing factories, united with other industry leaders to support and strengthen the American quartz industry. QMAA is committed to ensuring a free and fair, competitive marketplace born of free enterprise that provides the opportunity to compete on a level playing field for American quartz slab manufacturing factories and their valued workers. We also believe this effort will have a positive impact throughout the entire quartz surfacing industry, including to the strong benefit of American stone fabrication shops and upstream suppliers of quartz minerals and resin. Learn more at: https://www.qmaa.org/

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Databricks and Microsoft expand partnership to help enterprises bring business context to enterprise AI

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Databricks and Microsoft extend strategic partnership through the 2030s to scale enterprise AIDatabricks deepens its bet on Azure, growing its use of Azure Databricks to run its own core business operations and analytics, while both companies advance native integration across the Microsoft stack, including Databricks Genie and Microsoft 365Databricks increases its use of Microsoft Azure Cobalt to improve performance and efficiency

REDMOND, Wash. and SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Microsoft Corp. and Databricks on Wednesday announced an expansion of their decade-long strategic partnership, extending into the 2030s. Databricks will deepen its use of Azure Databricks to run core business operations and build its unified lakehouse, while leveraging Azure Cobalt, Microsoft’s next-generation Arm-based infrastructure, to improve performance and efficiency. Microsoft will also continue integrating Databricks Data and AI platform across its products, bringing capabilities like Genie, Databricks’ AI co-worker, directly into customer workflows. Together, the companies are helping enterprises build AI grounded in their own business context with the cost efficiency, control and choice needed to scale successfully.

Enterprises want AI that understands their customers, products, operations, metrics and business processes, all while running securely where work happens. Yet, most still struggle to connect AI to trusted business knowledge, govern models and agents consistently, and control costs. Microsoft and Databricks are helping customers close that gap: 

“For nearly a decade, Databricks and Microsoft have helped enterprises innovate with data and AI,” said Ali Ghodsi, Co‑Founder and CEO of Databricks. “Today, our partnership is stronger than ever. With Databricks Genie and Unity AI Gateway deeply integrated across Microsoft’s products, we’re helping enterprises unify their data and ground AI in business knowledge. This lets customers get the full benefits of agents and models while controlling costs and ensuring governance.”

“The next generation of AI will be defined by how effectively organizations turn their unique knowledge into intelligence,” said Judson Althoff, CEO, Microsoft Commercial Business. “Microsoft and Databricks are helping customers connect data, AI and business context to accelerate decision-making and drive measurable impact. With Databricks deepening its investment in Azure Databricks and Azure Cobalt-powered infrastructure, customers will benefit from greater performance, efficiency and scale for their most demanding workloads. Databricks’ decision to run its own core business operations on Azure Databricks also gives customers confidence in a platform proven at enterprise scale.”

Databricks runs core business operations on Azure Databricks 

As part of this latest deal, Databricks deepens its commitment to Azure, running its own core business operations and analytics on Azure Databricks, using the very platform it delivers to customers at scale.

Advancing performance with Azure Cobalt

Databricks will also expand its use of Azure Cobalt, Microsoft’s next-generation Arm-based infrastructure, to improve performance and efficiency for agentic and data-intensive workloads. Databricks currently uses Cobalt 100 and plans to adopt Cobalt 200, which delivers up to 50% better performance and includes memory encryption enabled by default.

Deep integrations for Databricks Genie and Unity AI Gateway with Microsoft product stack

By combining the Databricks Data + AI Platform with Azure’s global scale, customers can accelerate AI transformation while maintaining control and reliability. As a native Azure service, Azure Databricks makes its AI capabilities available directly within customers’ existing Microsoft environment, grounding and operating agents on enterprise data with Genie and Genie Ontology, and governing models, agents and cost through Unity AI Gateway. Deeply integrated across the Microsoft ecosystem spanning Microsoft Entra, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure security, Microsoft OneLake, Power BI, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Foundry, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Teams and Copilot, these capabilities bring governed, real-time data and AI into business workflows, giving organizations the context, control, choice and cost efficiency needed to drive impact.

Continued investment is evident from our recent announcements with Databricks at Data + AI Summit in June.

Customer impact with Azure Databricks

The deepened collaboration strengthens support for joint customers running data, analytics and AI workloads on Azure Databricks, delivering improved performance, security, AI governance and enterprise readiness. Thousands of customers, including Banco Bradesco, the Cincinnati Reds, Electrolux, SMBC and Unilever, already use Azure Databricks to run critical workloads and scale AI with confidence.

Read more on the proven business value of the Databricks and Microsoft partnership on the Microsoft Azure blog.

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including AT&T, Bayer, BMW Group, HSBC, T-Mobile, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

About Microsoft

Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) creates platforms and tools powered by AI to deliver innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. The technology company is committed to making AI available broadly and doing so responsibly, with a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

 

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Harness and Kong Expand Strategic Partnership to Deliver Comprehensive API and AI Security

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Joint solution extends proven API gateway security to the AI era — with automated AI discovery and runtime AI protection

SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Harness, the AI Software Delivery Platform™ company, and Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, today announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to address the growing security challenges posed by AI-driven architectures, autonomous agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments.

According to The State of AI-Native Application Security 2025 report, as enterprises race to deploy AI at scale, 62% have no visibility into where LLMs are in use across their environment, and 74% say AI sprawl will outpace API sprawl when it comes to risk — making embedded, infrastructure-level security more critical than ever. And companies are now deploying agents into their operations at an exponentially increasing rate, making it a necessity to protect the agents themselves and the systems interacting with those agents.

The two companies are extending their joint solution from Kong API Gateway to also include Kong AI Gateway, bringing Harness’s AI security intelligence directly into the AI infrastructure layer and enabling enterprises to discover, monitor, and protect every agent, AI asset, LLM-powered service, and MCP-connected workflow that traverses it.

A Proven Foundation: Harness and Kong API Gateway

Harness and Kong have been jointly trusted by enterprises to deliver best-in-class API security for years. The existing Harness and Kong API Gateway integration provides:

Comprehensive API traffic visibility and behavioral analysis across all Kong-managed servicesReal-time detection and blocking of API threats, including OWASP API Security Top 10 risks, credential stuffing attacks, and business logic abuseContinuous sensitive data tracking to identify PII exposure and regulatory riskZero-friction deployment alongside existing Kong configurations

This new offering of the AI Gateway solution applies the same level of security depth to AI infrastructure, ensuring that security teams are not left behind as their organizations adopt AI and agentic operations.

“Our partnership with Harness has given joint customers production-grade API security that works with the way they build, not against it,” said Ken Kim, Senior Vice President, Business Development at Kong Inc. “Extending to include Kong AI Gateway is a natural next step. The same enterprises are now moving AI into production through our gateway and need the same depth of visibility and control they’ve come to rely on for their APIs for all AI traffic types including LLM, MCP, and A2A. That’s exactly what this delivers and is crucial for organizations scaling in the agentic era.”

The New Frontier: Kong AI Gateway and Harness AI Security

As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, the attack surface has fundamentally shifted. AI agents, LLM-powered microservices, and MCP-enabled integrations introduce new vectors that traditional security tools were not designed to address. Unlike traditional software, AI agents are non-deterministic — the same agent can behave differently on consecutive runs, making it impossible to secure them the way you’d secure a static API. The new Harness and Kong AI Gateway integration directly tackles these challenges across two critical domains: AI discovery and AI protection.

AI Discovery
Harness automatically inventories every AI asset, API, MCP server, tool, prompt, and resource routed through Kong AI Gateway — providing security teams with a continuously updated catalog of their AI attack surface. No manual documentation. No blind spots.

AI Protection
Harness applies behavioral analysis and anomaly detection to AI traffic in real time, identifying prompt injection attacks, data exfiltration through AI responses, jailbreaking, malicious code in prompts, and other AI-specific threats. Enterprises gain the same depth of observability and protection for their agents and AI workloads that they already rely on for traditional APIs, with full prompt and response details available for incident investigation and inline policy enforcement through Kong AI Gateway.

“Shadow AI has become the defining security blind spot for enterprises today. Traditional tools were built for static code and predictable systems, not for adaptive AI models, agent-to-agent communication, and MCP-connected workflows that evolve continuously,” said Rahul Sood, GM of Application Security at Harness. “This integration of Harness AI Security with Kong puts security intelligence directly into the connectivity layer where AI traffic flows. Joint customers now have the visibility and control they need to move fast without losing sight of what’s happening across their AI infrastructure.”

Availability

The Harness and Kong API Gateway integration is generally available today for all joint customers. The Kong AI Gateway integration, including AI Discovery and AI Protection, is also generally available now. Joint customers can contact their account team or request a demo.

About Harness
Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform™ company, enabling engineering teams to build, test, and deliver software faster and more securely. Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the platform brings intelligent automation to every stage of the software delivery lifecycle after code — removing toil and freeing developers from manual, repetitive work. Companies like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels use Harness to accelerate releases by up to 75%, cut cloud costs by 60%, and achieve 10x efficiency across DevOps. Based in San Francisco, Harness is backed by Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, and Citi Ventures.

About Kong

Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.

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