A decade ago, cloud and API sprawl got ahead of governance, and enterprises spent years trying to account for costs they'd never tracked. Today, we're seeing the same pattern around AI, with hundreds of customers proxying traffic via Kong AI Gateway, which includes LLM, MCP, and agent connectivity.…
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In July, we announced Kong AI Gateway 2.0 in private beta and made a promise: freed from the API gateway release train, AI Gateway would ship at the speed of the AI ecosystem itself. We said you'd see the evidence quickly. Here it is. Kong AI Gateway 2.0 is now generally available , and…
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Kong was born to connect. The world is shifting from connecting cloud services with apps to connecting LLMs through agents. API calls and tokens are moving in tandem; a new unit of intelligence is forming. As AI traffic explodes into hypervolumes, speed is all that matters. The same principles of…
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Gartner published a report last week (1) that I think marks a genuine inflection point for how enterprise technology leaders should think about AI strategy. The headline finding: we have crossed a threshold where competitive advantage in the AI era is no longer about access to data — it's about…
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AI coding tool spend is projected to top $13 billion in 2026, compounding at more than 60% a year. That's an entire category showing up at once, according to the recent Palo Alto Networks' Secure AI Coding report. These agents don't just autocomplete a line of code anymore. They plan. They act.…
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That's a wrap on API + AI Summit 2026, Kong's biggest in-person event yet. The event brought together more than 1,000 engineers, architects, and leaders in Los Angeles to discuss running AI systems in production, tackle shared architecture challenges, and swap real-world insights. Couldn’t attend…
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Agentic AI governance is the structured management of the authority an organization hands to autonomous AI systems that plan and take action on its behalf. It covers what an AI agent is allowed to do, which systems it can touch, and how those permissions are monitored, limited, and revoked using…
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Standing up a production agent means taking it through six stages: At API & AI Summit, we announced the evolution of Kong Konnect into the AI Connectivity Platform and announced a slate of launches built around that idea. Here's what we launched, where each piece fits, and what you can use today.…
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We're thrilled to announce that Kong, the AI connectivity company, has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management for the seventh year in a row. Plus, Kong was positioned furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis for the third year in a row, among all 17 vendors…
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In April 2026, Uber burned through its entire year’s AI budget by the middle of the month, driven largely by usage of Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor. Nothing was broken. No one misused the tool. Engineers were doing exactly what every team's been told to do: adopt AI, use it well, use it…
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Bots make up more than a third of internet traffic, and API endpoints attract more of it than web pages do. Scanners hunting for .env files, credential-stuffing scripts, LLM training crawlers, and the long tail of low-effort probes all hit your gateway before they ever reach a service. Every one of…
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As of October 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.12 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.12 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
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AI infrastructure is changing fast. Enterprises are no longer building around a small set of models exposed through relatively consistent interfaces. New model architectures are emerging (Here’s looking at you Jev!). Providers are introducing new APIs and capabilities. Enterprises are running…
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Trace complete AI sessions across models, tools, agents, and infrastructure — and understand where performance, cost, and failures accumulate. Traditional observability was built around requests. A request comes in. A service processes it. A response goes out. You trace what happened in between.…
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