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Open a brokerage’s CRM instance a few years in, and it rarely looks like a sales tool anymore. Somewhere along the way, it picked up MLS feeds, transaction history, integration logic, reporting dashboards, and lately, the raw data behind a first AI pilot. None of that was the plan. Each piece got bolted on because the CRM was the system already sitting there. A CRM was built for a narrower job than that: logging a call, tracking a pipeline, managing the relationship an agent owns.

Reaching a milestone is always exciting. Some milestones carry a deeper meaning. Today, we're proud to share that the N|Solid Runtime has surpassed 2 million downloads. The milestone reflects growing momentum, with downloads accelerating and putting us on track to nearly double last year's total. To us, this isn't simply a download count.

Xray is transitioning into a Forge App, Atlassian's modern cloud development platform, using Forge Remote to strengthen security, align with Atlassian's long-term roadmap, and support future innovation. If you're wondering what the Xray Forge migration means, the short answer is simple: your testing workflows stay exactly the same. The changes happen behind the scenes, improving the platform that powers Xray while maintaining the features, scalability, and performance your team relies on.

While the benefits of LLM orchestration layers and autonomous agents are clear, they also bring a new set of non-deterministic failure modes that traditional unit testing cannot detect. A study by RAND Corporation found that 80.3% of AI projects fail to achieve the desired business outcomes, and this is because of issues in the data pipeline and model integration, not algorithmic problems.Using traditional software, you will get predictable results from known inputs.

As product delivery cadences shrink, traditional quality assurance approaches are reaching operational constraints. Traditional scripted test scripts, albeit a tried-and-true method in the past, can no longer keep up with the onslaught of dynamic code changes, changing microfrontends, and CI pipelines. In many cases, just changing a label or making a small modification to a layout may break whole integration suites and create huge backlogs.

We're thrilled to announce a strategic technology partnership between **Kong** and **ModelOp**. As enterprises rapidly transition into the agentic era, they face a critical challenge: how to deploy AI fast enough to stay competitive without taking on unacceptable regulatory or security risks. Together, **ModelOp** and **Kong** are solving the "last mile" problem of enterprise AI delivery.

We have big news for platform and AI infra teams: *Kong AI Gateway 2.0 is available today in private beta*. It runs on its own dedicated runtime, ships on its own release cadence, and carries a completely reimagined user experience designed around the way teams actually build with AI: models, MCP servers, and agents as first-class citizens, not plugins bolted onto an API gateway.

Last April FloQast, an American maker of accounting software, published something unusual: a detailed engineering post on Amazon Web Services’ machine-learning blog, co-authored with AWS personnel, explaining precisely how its AI-powered transaction-matching feature works under the hood. The post described cloud infrastructure, model selection, and the specific technique (generating matching rules from user-supplied examples) that powers its AutoRec product.