AI agents keep giving confident wrong answers. The context layer is enterprise AI's next production problem.

Enterprise AI agents have a new production failure mode, and it is not the model. As enterprises move from single-layer RAG to hybrid retrieval architectures, the same underlying data produces different answers depending on which agent, tool or system asks the question. Revenue means one thing in a business intelligence (BI) dashboard, something slightly different in a SQL table and something else again in an agent instruction. The retrieval infrastructure build-out of the past two years produced faster and cheaper vector search. It did not produce a shared definition of what the data means.At Snowflake Summit 26 in San Francisco, the data cloud vendor is taking a broad swing at that problem, with announcements spanning a Kafka-compatible managed streaming service called Data Stream, adapt