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harness

[hahr-nis] / ˈhɑr nɪs /
NOUN
gear for controlling an animal
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Ultimately, according to those tech leaders, customizing open models or investing effort into a model harness reduces reliance on any single AI vendor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

He reportedly used a harness to lower himself from a fifth-floor balcony.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

Now there’s a growing push to harness GPS technology to slow them down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Last June, the UK government announced £2bn of investment in AI by 2030 "to harness the transformative potential".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

I did not even know how to harness them or hook them properly to the gangline that pulled the sled when they were harnessed.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Agent coding harnesses set security and access limits on software built with AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

"We had to jump straight into the water, climb out, put helmets and harnesses on, and start scrambling up the cliff face."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

That harnesses a network of roughly 200 task forces comprising over 4,000 personnel from federal, state and local agencies.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Several members equipped with climbing harnesses clambered up a small tree on the school’s front lawn and dangled from its limbs on climbing ropes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

Some harnesses for the wagons were hanging along the wall.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

“All of the humanity, history, despair, and triumph that constitutes Elvis’ identity was stolen and is stored on servers and harnessed by Suno to make massive amounts of money,” the Presley complaint said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

“If harnessed correctly,” Sinestro adds, “fear can be the most powerful force in the universe.”

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Prof Alan Woodward, of the University of Surrey, told the BBC there was a risk open-source models might end up in the wrong hands, but they could also be harnessed for cyber-defence.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

It is a position the iPhone-maker hasn’t found itself in since Cook harnessed the company’s purchasing power to squeeze rock-bottom costs from suppliers and shift expensive assets from Apple’s balance sheet to theirs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

It was a photo album, opened to a picture of a dog that had been harnessed, like a mule or a horse, to a little wagon.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

By harnessing these vibrations, the researchers have created a way for quantum computers to process information efficiently while accessing a flexible working memory.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

"The first impression was, well, I thought it was completely irrelevant," says Diamos, a pioneer in harnessing Nvidia's powerful GPU chips for AI.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

But since Aug. 9, when they began harnessing the power of Ryonex, every single one of their meme carousels has racked up tens of thousands of likes.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

For those developing AI tools which are designed to take actions on a person's behalf, there is a careful balance to be struck between harnessing their benefits and exposing their risks.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

As he talked, he was harnessing the donkey.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios


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