Snowflake launches AI agent governance layer to track activity, control costs

As enterprises grapple with governing growing fleets of AI agents, Snowflake has unveiled Cortex AI Gateway, a new runtime control plane designed to help organizations track agent actions, enforce policies, and manage AI spending across models and tools. Built on technology acquired through the purchase of Natoma earlier in May, Cortex AI Gateway “acts as an execution layer” that applies governance policies defined in Horizon Catalog while routing requests and enforcing cost controls across firs