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Access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (Preview)

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You can now use the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) API to access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables in a catalog-linked database from external engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino, DuckDB, or PyIceberg.

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AI mode for sensitive data classification (Public Preview)

Sensitive data classification now supports AI mode in public preview. When you enable AI mode on a classification profile, Snowflake uses the OpenAI GPT-5 Mini model to identify additional semantic categories beyond those detected by standard classification, which can improve accuracy.

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Snowflake-provided tags (Public Preview)

With this preview release, Snowflake-provided tags are available in every account. These out of the box tags in the SNOWFLAKE.TAGS schema give you a consistent vocabulary for common governance use cases, including cost center, certification status, sensitivity, environment, and project, without creating and maintaining equivalent tags in each account.

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