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Spotted in the wild: Iceland edition 📍 Proof that Kong's reach knows no limits! 📷 Photo credit and a major shoutout to one of our customer champions whose son took their Kong water bottle on a backpacking trip through Iceland!

Did you catch our CEO and Co-Founder, @sonicaghi, on @MTSlive this week? Watch the clip below to hear Aghi's take on Anthropic acquiring Stainless. Then, check out the full conversation to hear about why connectivity infrastructure matters as much as models, how the internet is shifting from pixels to APIs, and how enterprises will govern AI at the traffic layer. bit.ly/4wF8uAh

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Anthropic bought Stainless because agents need rails. Kong CEO @sonicaghi says the deal is about more than making Claude Code easier to use. Agents need SDKs, CLIs, MCP, and APIs to reach the systems where work actually happens. "The connectivity infrastructure matters as much as the model... [it] is going to be the digital railroads on how AI moves." "We're moving from pixels to APIs."

Had a great time on @MTSlive today. Great chat @theojaffee Kicked off with a convo about Anthropic acquiring Stainless and what that means for the state of AI connectivity. Other highlights: The headless revolution is happening in real time — Salesforce going headless is a big deal. The traffic layer is where AI governance has to live. Not the model. Not the data platform. Tokens per watt and tokens per second are the metrics that will define the AI economy. Google is processing quadrillions of tokens a month. Most infrastructure wasn't built for that. Thanks to the MTS team for having me. Go check out the replay if you missed it.

🥁 Introducing our newest partner: Unfold! Together, Kong and Unfold will accelerate channel growth across Australia and New Zealand by looking for opportunities to further engage and support partners. Unfold will help Kong's partners uncover consistent revenue streams by aligning their strategic priorities with the commercial drivers that motivate them. 🇦🇺🇳🇿 Learn more here: bit.ly/4v17FA7

AI is moving into production faster than most teams expected. Infrastructure is still catching up. 🏃🏽 Across enterprises, APIs, events, and AI workloads are being managed across disconnected systems – creating gaps in governance, visibility, and cost control. At the Gartner Application Summit, we’ll be sharing how leading teams are bringing API + AI connectivity together in a single, unified platform. If you’re attending, we’d love to connect! bit.ly/3RaRgdR

📣 Announcing the availability of Dedicated Cloud Gateways and the regional hosting of the Kong Konnect control plane in Singapore! Teams now have the flexibility to run and scale APIs and AI workloads closer to where business happens while meeting security, regulatory, and data governance requirements. 🇸🇬 To further support customers, partners, and developers, we continue to invest in Singapore as a strategic hub for Asia Pacific operations, growing the go-to-market and site reliability engineering teams there and strengthening local leadership. Check out our press release for more info: bit.ly/4v2Tive

Are you an engineering leader tying AI usage back to business value? 💰 You need to be able to talk to your CFO about the metrics coming out of your AI infrastructure. And you need to do it in a way that will keep their attention, not lose their interest. Check out our new blog for a starter guide on how to bridge engineering observability with financial reporting: bit.ly/4uYoEmG

The @AnthropicAI acquisition of @Stainless shows where the game is heading. It's about moving AI. Moving the context layer. Having a strong ai connectivity infrastructure is as important as having strong models. The LLMs are limited in actions without being highly connected to the outer world. That connectivity is built and governed via APIs, CLI, SDK and MCP servers. Whoever has the most fluid "Token path" will be able to build far superior inteligence.

Three-quarters of enterprises are piloting or deploying AI agents. The problem? Actually integrating them with enterprise applications is proving to be one of the hardest parts. 😖 Recent Gartner® research, How to Integrate AI Agents With Your Enterprise Applications, highlights the contrast between traditional integration and what AI agents require — an AI control layer. Kong AI Gateway is purpose-built to be the AI control layer enterprises need. Learn more: bit.ly/4dHYqPn

We released a collection of production-ready recipes to build with Kong AI Gateway: LLM routing, guardrails, semantic caching, cost optimization, governance, and MCP integration: developer.konghq.com/cookbooks/

AI innovation shouldn't come at the expense of your margins. Yet most organizations are bleeding revenue through fragmented AI tooling, untracked usage, and runaway infrastructure costs. 😵‍💫 Our latest blog, "Stop Subsidizing Innovation, Start Monetizing It," breaks down the AI credit economy and why companies that prioritize metering and monetization infrastructure will outpace everyone else in the agentic era. Read more 👉🏼 bit.ly/4nk6RDD

Headed to apidays New York this week in New York City 🗽 Platform teams shouldn’t need separate platforms for APIs, AI gateways, MCP servers, and agent traffic. With Kong + Kong Konnect, you can unify the entire AI data path into a single control plane. Stop by booth #10 🦍

Organizations are moving from experimental AI to production-grade systems, and they're facing a fragmented landscape, complex tool integrations and increasing security risks. Developers need a new infrastructure stack prioritizing scalability and security. Kong 🤝 @Akamai Now, enterprises can build a modern-AI-based infrastructure for agents with Kong AI Gateway and Akamai's secure cloud infrastructure. 👀 Check out the blog for more information on the partnership: bit.ly/4wj79Pk

Excited to sponsor Interrupt next week! 🚀 We're partnering with @LangChain to showcase how Kong is helping drive AI innovation. Come by our booth to to connect, learn, and explore the future of agents. We'll be showing Kong AI Gateway, Konnect Metering and Billing, and more. Learn more: interrupt.langchain.com

Spotted in Times Square 👀 Attending AI Hot 100 Summit this week? Come by the booth to learn how Kong is the essential infrastructure layer for agentic AI. And if you're still building your schedule for the week, don't miss: 🔹 Felderi Santiago, VP of Solutions Engineering, moderating a panel Wednesday at 2pm, "AI Governance: Designing an Effective AI Governance Operating Model" 🔹 The workshop led by Hugo Guerrero, Head of Technical Marketing, Wednesday at 3pm, "Architecting AI Connectivity for the Context Economy"

We are going to announce our GA soon and we are going to do it the old school way in an hacker house by the beach 🏝️ Made by @kong with ❤️.

.@Kong is coming to Interrupt! Meet their team during the show and discover how their cloud API platform delivers fast, reliable, secure digital experiences.

Excited to be sponsoring @MTSlive! Make sure to follow along and keep an eye out for Kong execs sharing their perspectives on the Situation 👀