Snowflake is advancing its AI capabilities with new features to its Horizon Catalog, centralizing governance, context, and security for enterprise AI. The company has introduced new capabilities like Horizon Context, which ensures that every person, tool, and AI agent operates from the same trusted business context. Snowflake is working with customers like BlackRock to provide a shared definition of enterprise truth.
Ataccama has launched data products and joined the Open Semantic Interchange to deliver trusted context for AI on Snowflake. Ataccama's data products define critical business concepts as trusted data products with trust scores, delivered through Ataccama's MCP Server into Snowflake CoCo, Cortex CoWork, and enterprise AI tools.
Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, predicts a surge in demand for artificial-intelligence hardware and says Marvell Technology could be the next chip firm to join the trillion-dollar club. Meanwhile, Thinking Machines Lab has raised $2 billion at a $12 billion seed valuation and has shipped two products, including a finetuning API and interaction models, with partnerships with Nvidia and Google.
Meta has scaled back its employee-tracking program that captured mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes for use as AI training data, introducing new controls allowing employees to pause data collection and request exemptions. OpenAI is backing Opal, which is developing an AI-powered audio gadget and other smart devices.
Key Takeaways
- Snowflake introduces new features to its Horizon Catalog to centralize governance, context, and security for enterprise AI.
- Ataccama launches data products to deliver trusted context for AI on Snowflake.
- Nvidia's CEO predicts a surge in demand for AI hardware and says Marvell Technology could join the trillion-dollar club.
- Thinking Machines Lab raises $2 billion at a $12 billion seed valuation.
- Meta scales back employee-tracking program for AI training data.
- OpenAI backs Opal, which is developing an AI-powered audio gadget.
- Snowflake enhances its platform with new AI security features, including agent identity management and prompt injection protection.
- VanEck launches an ETF focused on the data center supply chain to capture the AI infrastructure buildout.
- NIQ launches Product Intelligence to transform fragmented product data into a unified, AI-ready product layer.
- A Stanford study finds that AI beats law professors 75% of the time in evaluating student contract questions.
Snowflake Advances Trusted AI with New Horizon Catalog
Snowflake has introduced new features to its Horizon Catalog, centralizing governance, context, and security for enterprise AI. This includes new capabilities like Horizon Context, which ensures that every person, tool, and AI agent operates from the same trusted business context. Snowflake is working with customers like BlackRock to provide a shared definition of enterprise truth. The company is also enhancing its security features with proactive built-in security for AI and Adaptive Compute for scaling AI applications.
Ataccama Launches Data Products for Trusted Context on Snowflake
Ataccama has launched data products and joined the Open Semantic Interchange to deliver trusted context for AI on Snowflake. Ataccama's data products define critical business concepts as trusted data products with trust scores, delivered through Ataccama's MCP Server into Snowflake CoCo, Cortex CoWork, and enterprise AI tools. This enables enterprises to create a consistent business view of data across systems.
Snowflake Bolsters AI Security with New Features
Snowflake has enhanced its platform with new AI security features, including agent identity management and prompt injection protection. These features aim to secure enterprise data in the age of autonomous AI and provide greater visibility and control over AI systems' access to sensitive data.
Snowflake's AI Push for the Agentic Enterprise
Snowflake has unveiled a suite of features designed to equip AI agents with secure, understandable data at the velocity required for continuous reasoning and action. This includes governed data, AI security, and high-performance computing for production deployments.
RACK: The Building Block of the AI Infrastructure Boom
The AI investment opportunity is expanding beyond software, models, and platforms to the physical infrastructure supporting AI. Data centers are becoming a larger and more important investment theme, with pressure building across the data center supply chain.
VanEck Launches Data Center Supply Chain ETF to Capture AI Infrastructure Buildout
VanEck has launched an ETF focused on the data center supply chain, aiming to capture the AI infrastructure buildout. The ETF tracks the MarketVector Data Center Supply Chain Index, providing exposure to US-listed companies across the data center supply chain.
Meta Scales Back Employee Tracking for AI Training
Meta has scaled back its employee-tracking program that captured mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes for use as AI training data. The company has introduced new controls allowing employees to pause data collection and request exemptions.
Meta's AI Training Effort Captures Employee Emails and Browsing History
Meta's AI training effort captures a wide range of employee data, including emails, browsing history, and keystrokes. The company has introduced new controls and optimizations to reduce the impact on employee devices.
Nvidia's Huang Says Marvell May Join $1 Trillion Club as AI Hardware Demand Soars
Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, says Marvell Technology could be the next chip firm to join the trillion-dollar club, predicting a surge in demand for artificial-intelligence hardware.
Poland's Leader Calls for Tech Sovereignty to Counter AI Risks
Poland's Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, calls for technology sovereignty to curb AI-related risks threatening its security and economy. The country plans to introduce a 'sovereignty test' for significant state purchases of technological solutions.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines: $2B Raised, $50B Stalled, Shipping
Thinking Machines Lab raised $2 billion at a $12 billion seed valuation in July 2025 and has shipped two products, including a finetuning API and interaction models. The company has partnerships with Nvidia and Google for infrastructure.
NIQ Launches Product Intelligence to Power AI-Driven Commerce
NIQ has launched Product Intelligence, a solution that transforms fragmented product data into a unified, AI-ready product layer. This enables AI systems to better understand, match, recommend, and surface products across digital and physical commerce channels.
Snowflake Advances Trusted AI with Snowflake Horizon Catalog Centralizing Governance, Context, and Security Across the Enterprise
Snowflake has introduced new features to its Horizon Catalog, centralizing governance, context, and security for enterprise AI. This includes new capabilities like Horizon Context and Adaptive Compute.
Bloom CEO Has No Plans to Sell Shares After AI Investor Run-up
Bloom Energy Corp.'s CEO, KR Sridhar, has no plans to sell shares after the company's stock surge due to AI investor interest.
Flush With Cash From OpenAI, Opal Is Making an AI-Powered Audio Gadget
Opal, backed by OpenAI and Samsung, is developing an AI-powered audio gadget and other smart devices.
Stanford Study Finds AI Beats Law Professors 75% Of The Time
A Stanford study finds that AI beats law professors 75% of the time in evaluating student contract questions.
Sources
- Snowflake Advances Trusted AI with Snowflake Horizon Catalog Centralizing Governance, Context, and Security Across the Enterprise
- Ataccama Launches Data Products and Joins Open Semantic Interchange to Deliver Trusted Context for AI on Snowflake
- Snowflake Advances Trusted AI with Snowflake Horizon Catalog Centralizing Governance, Context, and Security Across the Enterprise
- Snowflake Bolsters AI Security
- Snowflake's AI Push for the Agentic Enterprise
- RACK: The Building Block of the AI Infrastructure Boom
- VanEck Launches Data Center Supply Chain ETF to Capture AI Infrastructure Buildout
- Meta scales back employee tracking for AI training
- Meta's AI training effort is capturing employee emails and browsing history, not just mouse clicks
- NIQ Launches Product Intelligence to Power AI-Driven Commerce
- Bloom CEO Has No Plans to Sell Shares After AI Investor Run-up
- Flush With Cash From OpenAI, Opal Is Making an AI-Powered Audio Gadget
- Stanford Study Finds AI Beats Law Professors 75% Of The Time
- Nvidia's Huang Says Marvell May Join $1 Trillion Club as AI Hardware Demand Soars
- Poland’s Leader Calls for Tech Sovereignty to Counter AI Risks
- Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines: $2B Raised, $50B Stalled, Shipping
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