Releasesby GlyphCortex AI Gateway inference, observability, and cost management (General availability)
Inference, observability, and cost management for Cortex AI Gateway are now generally available. The gateway gives AI clients in your organization one governed endpoint to reach models, records a trace of every request, and attributes spend to the users who made it.
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Gemini Enterprise: Salesforce federated data store
Connecting a Salesforce data source with Gemini Enterprise using data federation is generally available (GA). You can use the Gemini Enterprise app assistant to search across your Salesforce accounts, contacts, opportunities, cases, leads, and custom objects, get answers grounded in that content, and create, update, and delete records without needing to...
[In preview] Public Preview: Extend immutability for PITR backups for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
With this enhancement, you have the ability to lock your retention to the configured PITR retention, beyond the default 7 days of immutable backups that are already available. This is especially useful for financial customers who typically have 35 days of
UI improvements now generally available for PD Reliability Platform customers
Customers on PD Reliability Platform now have an improved UI experience, including: Consolidated settings: Brings all your configuration and admin settings together in one place. New nav: Provides streamlined access to your most important capabilities. Your Subscription: Shows where the opportunities are to shift work off humans and onto AI and automation.
Claude auto-connect (beta) for PagerDuty MCP Server now in Early Access
With Claude auto-connect, members with a matching PagerDuty account are connected to PagerDuty in Claude automatically, with no sign-in screen and no identity provider (IdP) configuration. Members act as themselves in PagerDuty, with the permissions they already have there.
In BigQuery Studio , the left pane has been updated with new tab names
In BigQuery Studio , the left pane has been updated with new tab names. The Classic Explorer tab has been renamed to the Data tab, and the Repository tab has been renamed to the Source control tab. The Data tab now includes the Add data button and focuses on data hierarchies. These changes are generally available (GA).
Dependabot version updates support Agent Package Manager
You can now keep your AI agent skills, prompts, and instructions up to date with Dependabot version updates for Agent Package Manager (APM) . Dependabot opens pull requests to update supported git dependencies declared in apm.yml and regenerates apm.lock.yaml when it’s present. This support covers version updates, not security updates.
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AI_EXTRACT updates
AI_EXTRACT now delivers a 12.8% relative improvement in average extraction accuracy compared with the previous version in our evaluations. Extract fields, lists, and tables more accurately from complex documents, including forms, handwritten content, dense tables, and charts.
Cortex Training (Preview)
Cortex Training is now available in preview, allowing users to customize open-weight LLMs using a serverless service within Snowflake.
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.
Cortex 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.
AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT introduces AGENTIC mode for intelligent document processing (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT now includes an AGENTIC mode in public preview. This feature allows users to extract information from complex documents, including charts and diagrams, using a single SQL call.
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-6 Luna in AI Functions (Preview)
The following OpenAI models are now in public preview in AI Functions:
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.