Manufacturing: the widest gap between AI ambition and API readiness.
Only 5 of the top 56 providers had discoverable OpenAPI specs. 84% had an API security incident. #Manufacturing
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
Retail is ~34% of global API traffic, more than any other sector.
After adopting UCP, Bake & Brew saw online sales up 30%, mostly via agents. #Retail #AgenticCommerce
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
Banking APIs have passed through 8 phases, from compliance to agentic commerce.
UK open banking: 2.81B API calls a month. India's UPI: 22.64B. #OpenBanking #Fintech
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
Three macro AI risks dominated 2026: AI as a "reverse centaur", environmental impact, and an economic bubble.
Each has a practical response. #ResponsibleAI #AI
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
AI across the API lifecycle, 2025 → 2026:
Docs: 52% → 64%
OpenAPI/AsyncAPI specs: 43% → 60%
Testing & mocking: 37% → 58%
Design review: 29% → 46%
#APIs #APIDesign
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
"A frontier without any rules."
Only 2 AI governance practices are used by over half of orgs: training and approved-tool lists (both 53%). Gateways (42%) are rising. #AIGovernance
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
89.6% say AI makes them more productive (up from 82%).
65% now find AI results reliable (up from 45%).
But only 29% get guidance on checking AI output. #AI #Productivity
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
AI is moving to the backend.
Research & strategy: 53% → 64%
Building agents: 42% → 51%
Customer service: 29% → 22%
Tolerance for AI slop is dropping. #AI #AIAgents
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
Standards had a big year: the biggest MCP spec revision yet, A2A v1.0 with 150+ orgs in production, OpenAPI 3.2 and Arazzo + AsyncAPI.
Which are you betting on? #MCP #OpenAPI #A2A
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
Regulators now mandate APIs: EU Data Act, UK DUA Act, US CMS FHIR rules, e-invoicing in India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Poland and more.
Your regulatory roadmap is your API roadmap. #APIs
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
2026 in APIs & AI: MCP becomes an industry standard, Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter, Nvidia buys Hugging Face.
And broken auth is still the top cause of API CVEs. #APIs #MCP
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
Your next API consumer isn't human.
Gartner: 30% of API demand will come from AI agents. Cloudflare: AI agent requests up 1,700%+ since 2025.
Can agents find your APIs? #AIAgents #MCP
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
The API economy in 2026:
$21.93B API management market by 2031
$14.2T global economic impact of APIs by 2027
58–83% of web traffic is API calls
#APIs #APIEconomy
📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources
🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris
🙌 Thank you to @Easygoau , sponsor of apidays Australia 2026!
Say hello to the team at MCEC.
📅 28–29 Oct · MCEC Melbourne
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1/7 The best APIs and AI systems are designed for the people who use and rely on them.
Five sessions on the human side of APIs and AI at apidays Australia, part of FOST Australia 2026 🧵
6/7 🎤 Anastasiia Mironova (Monash University)
"How can we analyse thousands of comments to derive reliable insights? Lessons from analysing student feedback at scale."
How Monash uses generative AI on student feedback, and checks it's reliable.
7/7 📅 28–29 October 2026
📍 MCEC, Melbourne
One ticket: apidays Australia, Cloud Native Summit and GraphQL Day.
Register 👉 joinfost.io/events/australia
#apidays #FOSTAustralia














