Snowflake launches Cortex AI Gateway to control AI agents and prevent runaway enterprise costs

Snowflake announced Cortex AI Gateway on Tuesday, a centralized control layer designed to govern how AI agents — including those built by competitors like Anthropic’s Claude Code and Cursor — access enterprise data, tools, and models. Alongside the gateway, the company unveiled a first wave of security integrations with 1Password , Aembit , Linx Security , SailPoint , and Saviynt , an unusual lineup of identity vendors who often compete with one another, now aligned around a shared trust model for autonomous agents. The announcement, made from the company’s no-headquarters base in Bozeman, Mon