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 coalition 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, Montana, is Snowflake's most aggressive move yet to position itself not merely as the place where enterprise data lives, but as the control plane that decides what AI agents are allowed to do with it."The n