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Best LLM gateways in 2026: 30+ AI gateways compared on cost control

An LLM gateway is a proxy that sits between your applications and model providers, handling routing, failover, caching, and cost controls through one API. The strongest picks in 2026: LiteLLM for self-hosted control, OpenRouter for instant multi-model access, Portkey for managed governance, and Bifrost for production-scale throughput. Enterprises spent $37 billion on generative AI in 2025, a 3.2x jump in one year, per Menlo Ventures.

Analyze your experiments in ChatGPT with the Datadog Experiments plugin

ChatGPT Work has become a common starting point for data and product teams. Analysts open it to compare launch adoption across segments, diagnose a metric that moved overnight, or turn a week of scattered numbers into a readout that a leader can act on. But the moment teams ask whether their experiment actually caused an effect they’ve observed, the conversation stalls.

How AI and Digital Transformation Are Changing the Way Consumers Shop for Eyewear Online

The way people buy eyewear has changed significantly in recent years. A process that once required visiting multiple optical stores can now happen from a smartphone or computer. Digital platforms have made it easier for consumers to browse styles, compare options, and make informed purchasing decisions without leaving home.

Megaport Collaborates With NVIDIA to Boost AI in Australia

Australia’s home-grown global automated infrastructure platform is part of a cohort of companies with Australian operations that will provide regional businesses and institutions access to NVIDIA accelerated computing and NVIDIA Nemotron open models. It’s a point of pride for all of us at Megaport that we’ve built a global automated infrastructure platform while maintaining our deep Australian roots.

How to right-size the handoff between two agents

model-right-sizer-schema is a Claude Code skill that designs the typed contract between one agent and the controller that dispatches it. Point it at an agent plus its controller and it returns a JSON prescription with typed in/out fields, an exclusion list that keeps raw logs out of the reply, a before/after size delta, then writes the contract into the agent's own file. It picks from nine portable output-shape families, or your repo's own.

A simpler way to run AI agents in Bitbucket Pipelines

AI agents can help investigate failed builds, fix flaky tests and automate other development tasks. But setting up those agents has required more Pipelines configuration than it should. Agent-powered steps often need different compute, permissions and runtime settings from ordinary build and test steps. Until now, teams have either repeated those settings across every agent-powered step or tried to make one set of global defaults work for everything.

Every Deployment Platform Is Pivoting to AI. Day 2 Operations Aren't Going Anywhere

Over the summer, Fly.io founder Kurt Mackey announced a complete pivot for the company toward "Computers for Agents", which are ephemeral virtual machines (called Sprites) optimized for AI coding workflows. He was refreshingly explicit about what this means: they are not trying to do both traditional application hosting and AI agent compute. They are choosing one over the other. This is a completely rational bet on the future of developer tooling.

How AI-Based Crop Counting and Health Analysis Boost Agricultural Yield

Modern farms need faster, more reliable ways to understand plant population, detect stress early, and act before losses spread, because manual scouting is time-consuming, resource-intensive, and highly dependent on human expertise. That challenge matters at the yield level, since pests and diseases can significantly reduce crop productivity, and early recognition is critical for protecting both output and quality. AI-based crop counting and health analysis address this problem by turning images, sensor data, and field observations into structured decisions that support more precise crop management.

What an "Agent Harness" Actually Is - and Why Raw Model Calls Don't Survive Production

There's a demo that convinces every engineering team that agents are ready: someone gives a model a goal, it calls a couple of tools, and it produces a result that would have taken a person an hour. The gap between that demo and a system real users depend on is enormous, and most of that gap is not the model. It's everything around the model - the layer that decides what to do next, calls tools safely, remembers what happened, asks for help when it should, and records the whole run so you can debug it. That layer has a name: the agent harness.