Databricks
Databricks Unity AI Gateway hits GA: a governance guide
Centralized AI traffic control, provider routing, MCP governance and cost monitoring arrive under Unity Catalog as Unity AI Gateway goes GA.
#governance
8 stories tagged governance.
Snowflake
Cortex AI Gateway: Snowflake's agent governance layer
Governing 100+ MCP servers, Snowflake's Cortex AI Gateway centralizes AI agent access and cost, but most features are still in private preview.
Snowflake
Snowflake tag-based data protection policies: a governance shift
Snowflake tag-based data protection policies entered public preview on July 21, 2026, letting you attach row access, aggregation, projection, and join policies to tags. Objects with the tag auto-inherit the policy, cutting policy attachments from thousands to one per group.
Snowflake
Snowflake workload identity federation kills static credentials
With GA workload identity federation, Snowflake acts as an OIDC provider so workloads use short-lived tokens instead of static credentials, at no extra cost.
Databricks
Databricks Lakeflow Designer GA cost guide for teams
Analyst-built, governed data prep is now GA in Databricks Lakeflow Designer. Use it for visual transforms, but meter previews and jobs.
AI
Multi-agent safety gets Google’s $10 million test
Google's $10 million multi-agent safety program starts small against the risk of interacting AI agents amplifying each other's failures.
Matillion
Matillion Context Engine grounds Maia agent work
Knowledge graphs for safer pipeline work: Matillion Context Engine, in public preview, gives Maia AI agents a metadata layer.
Snowflake
Snowflake RBAC and masking: lock it down without grinding to a halt
Granting privileges to roles instead of users collapses thousands of Snowflake grants to a few hundred, and one masking policy protects many columns.