Kong Inc. announced Volcano, an agentic infrastructure platform, at the API + AI Summit 2026 in Los Angeles, extending its API management stack into agent execution. Kong CTO and co-founder Marco Pall…
Kong announced at API & AI Summit the evolution of Kong Konnect into an AI Connectivity Platform, with six launches mapped to what it calls the agent connectivity journey. Generally available now are …
Kong previewed advanced AI observability capabilities in Kong Konnect that make the session, rather than the individual request, the unit of AI observability, according to Alex Drag, Kong's Head of Pr…
A developer demonstrates how to secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers by placing Kong AI Gateway 2.0 in front of them, arguing that most MCP servers run with no authentication, per-tool authoriz…
Maxim AI has released Bifrost, an open-source AI gateway written in Go that decouples application requests from upstream model providers while enforcing centralized security policies. The project targ…
Kong AI Gateway 2.0, now available on Google Cloud, provides unified security and governance for AI traffic across GKE, Cloud Run, and Vertex AI. The gateway treats AI models, agents, and MCP servers …
Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.4 will reach End of Life on August 31, 2026, after which Kong will no longer fully support the version, followed by a 12-month sunset support period ending in August 2027. Ko…
Kong announced that its Insomnia API testing platform now integrates natively with Kong Konnect, enabling developers to test against live gateway configuration instead of imported API specs. The integ…
Kong Konnect has launched prepaid credits for its AI metering and billing system, allowing customers to pay upfront for token consumption. The feature decouples payment from usage, automatically apply…