We benchmarked blocking recall, precision, and F1 on real PRs to determine when a frontier model is worth the price for code review. Opus costs 7x more per review than GLM 5.3. We added a triage step that matches model and effort to each PR, and median review costs dropped from $3.93 to $2.47. Here's the story: konghq.com/blog/engineering/…

Most enterprise AI projects don’t fail at the model. They fail at the infrastructure underneath it. Find us at booth P13 at AGNTCon + MCPCon (San Jose, Oct 22–23) for an in-depth demo and a chat with a Kong exec.

A haunted house, but it’s being asked to control AI traffic you were never able to see.

A haunted house, but it’s wiring up auth, secrets, and guardrails by hand. On every project.

A haunted house, but it’s filing a ticket to try the model that launched yesterday.

A haunted house, but it’s swapping one model provider and rewriting the app. Again.

A haunted house, but it’s an AI bill the CFO can see and nobody can attribute to a team.

A haunted house, but it’s a room where nobody can tell you what your AI bill is going to be this month.

Gartner expects 40% of enterprises to demote or decommission agents by 2027, after governance gaps only showed up when something broke. The 8-step rollout to get ahead of it: bit.ly/47fjCs7

😎 Find out why: bit.ly/4i4lYPx

Your AI bill says “$27,000 on Claude.” It should say “$27,000 resolving 18,400 support cases at $1.47 each.” AI Cost Management is now in beta in Kong Konnect: attribution, budgets, alerts, and exports, priced per request at the gateway. Here's why Kongers are calling it one of the most impactful things we've ever shipped: bit.ly/4hVNNJN

API + AI Summit couldn't have happened without the companies who backed it. To our sponsors, thank you for backing an event built for the people actually shipping AI and APIs. We're already looking forward to next year!

In finance, fast and safe aren’t a tradeoff. Kong governs API and AI traffic on one platform, with security and compliance built in from day one. In fact, @sixgroup cut manual overhead by 50%+! Find us at the Kong kiosk at @money2020, Las Vegas, Oct 18–21.

A week later and we’re still processing it. 1,000+ attendees in LA. Volcano’s debut. Six product announcements. Seven straight years as a Gartner MQ Leader. A new name for platform teams: AI movers. Our CEO Augusto Marietti wrote the full recap 👇 bit.ly/3UgIUmD

📣 Allow us to interrupt your day to relay a message from Karl: "Last week, Kong threw a party for me. I mean, they're calling it the API + AI Summit, but my face was around every corner — on children's books, pins, stickers, cardboard cutouts, there was even a claw machine filled with plushies of yours truly! It was so great, but also tiring. You'll see me around, but I need some R&R after so much attention."

This year's Kong Innovator Award winners turned complex connectivity challenges into measurable impact. Announced live on the API + AI Summit stage last week, our Top Kong Innovator Awards go to… 🌟Americas: @Nordstrom 🌟Europe and Middle East: @ericsson 🌟Asia-Pacific: @HKJC_Racing 🌟Enterprise Transformation: @latitude_fs 🌟Business Impact: @TASE_IL 🌟Developer Experience: @JSCTBC 🌟Operational Excellence: @CoxAutomotive Learn more about the award-winning projects developed by these Kong customers: bit.ly/4hR5Hxn

Konger #1,000 just entered the chat. 1,000 people building the connectivity layer underneath APIs, services, and AI. Not bad for something Aghi and Marco dreamed up in a garage — and we're just getting started.

What. A. Week. 😍 Engineers, architects, and AI leaders came together in LA for two days of keynotes, product launches, insightful conversations, and a lot of Karl plushies. We heard from customers doing truly inspiring things with Kong and celebrated our partners and this year's Innovator Award winners. API + AI Summit 2026 is a wrap. Thank you to everyone who showed up, built something, and customized a keyboard. We'll see you next year!