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Happy holidays from the Kong team! Consider this our gift to everyone who's been asked "what's the ROI on AI?" one too many times. The AI boom has a dirty secret: for most enterprises, it's bleeding money. Every LLM call, every agent invocation, every API request that powers your AI products — they all cost something. And right now, most organizations have no idea what they're spending, who's spending it, or how to control that spend. Finance teams are flying blind.

Discover expanded OpenTelemetry support, full cloud-native authentication, powerful Datakit orchestrations, and PCI DSS 4.0 attestation for Kong Konnect and Cloud Gateways. As API ecosystems grow more complex, maintaining visibility and security shouldn't be a hurdle. Kong Gateway 3.13 simplifies these challenges with expanded OpenTelemetry support and more flexible orchestration. These new capabilities not only make your APIs more observable but also make it easier to implement orchestration.

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 performance, security, and reliability behind Kong are essential in an agentic world. A new connectivity layer for AI is born.

Modern teams push code multiple times a day. But how do you verify that the changes made are free from bugs? And how do you integrate testing as part of your pipelines? In this blog, let’s explore how to integrate Keploy into your CI/CD pipelines. We’ll be using GitHub Actions for the examples.

Note: The SmartBear MCP Server is under active development and features may change. Check our GitHub repository for the latest updates and compatibility information. At SmartBear, we show how our MCP Server enables a secure and intelligent bridge between SmartBear platform data and AI-powered development workflows.

I recently tried using AI to create a digital twin of myself. I uploaded a photo, expecting a futuristic, slightly improved version of me… and what did I get in return? A picture of Kim Jong Un. Clearly, AI has a sense of humor—or a very different definition of “twin.” Forget Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) power nearly every modern digital experience, from mobile apps and online payments to AI-driven services and real-time data processing. As software systems increasingly rely on microservices and distributed architectures, the number of API interactions continues to grow, making reliability and performance more critical than ever.