Releasesby GlyphCortex AI usage in Native App usage history
Developers can now track Cortex AI credit usage, including agent tokens and search embeddings, attributed to Snowflake Native Apps using the APPLICATION_DAILY_USAGE_HISTORY view.
Also shipped Oct 28, 2026Snowflake in October 2026 →
Gemini Enterprise: Support for Brazil ( br ) region (GA with allowlist)
Gemini Enterprise is now generally available in the Brazil region with support for at-rest data residency and machine learning processing.
Match monitoring depth to workload needs with Infrastructure Basic
Datadog introduced the Infrastructure Basic tier, a lightweight monitoring option designed for lower-priority workloads to track host health and resource usage.
ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers can claim monthly API credits
Eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers can now claim up to $500 per month in free API credits by linking an API organization to their subscription.
Upcoming end of life for the Genie One MCP Beta endpoint
The Genie One MCP Beta endpoint will reach end of life on November 30, 2026. Users must migrate to the generally available system.ai.genie_one_mcp MCP in Unity Gateway.
Serverless GPU for clean room notebooks is now generally available
Databricks has made serverless GPU compute generally available for clean room notebooks, enabling model inference and training over shared data.
Route and orchestrate models with GitHub Copilot Fusion
GitHub Copilot Fusion is now generally available, providing intelligent routing and orchestration across multiple models to balance performance and cost.
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Cortex Agents Coding Agent thinking effort, system instructions, and stage mounts
The Cortex Agents Coding Agent agent:run API now supports three additional public controls when using the code_toolset_all tool, providing more granular configuration for coding tasks.
Retrieve Cortex Search (Public Preview)
The CORTEX_SEARCH_RETRIEVE table function is now in public preview, allowing users to execute low-latency search queries directly from SQL for RAG and chatbot applications.
Responses API for the Cortex REST API (Preview)
The new Responses API in the Cortex REST API provides OpenAI-compatible endpoints for accessing models.
Coding agent MCP tool
Snowflake-managed MCP servers can now expose a coding agent that provides a managed coding sandbox attached to a conversation thread without requiring a stored agent object.
Cortex Fine-tuning: New model training no longer available in AWS US East 1
Starting October 20, 2026, Cortex Fine-tuning will no longer support the creation of new fine-tuned models in AWS US East 1 (N. Virginia).
Cortex Tools for Cortex AI Gateway (Preview)
We are pleased to announce the preview of Cortex Tools, a part of Cortex AI Gateway that connects the AI clients your organization uses to the business tools your work already lives in, using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Supported clients include CoCo Desktop, CoCo CLI, Claude, and Cursor.
Tools for Cortex AI Gateway (Preview)
We are pleased to announce the preview of Tools for Cortex AI Gateway, which connects AI clients to the business tools your organization already uses through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Supported clients include CoCo Desktop, CoCo CLI, Claude, and Cursor.
Cortex AI Gateway on Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS New Zealand
Cortex AI Gateway is now available to accounts in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) commercial regions, and in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region.