Global – October 29, 2026 -- Only 5% of enterprises say their data is ready to support AI, although 97% are running active AI initiatives, according to figures cited in Snowflake's new ebook "Break the Sequence."

The ebook targets what Snowflake calls the biggest brake on enterprise AI: the belief that data transformation must be complete before AI work can begin. Snowflake argues that "finished" is an impossible standard, because new applications, regulatory changes, acquisitions and evolving AI models continually reshape the data estate.

Global – October 28, 2026 -- Snowflake has made automated Snowpipe setup with its CoCo assistant generally available, letting teams take raw files in cloud storage to a continuously loading Snowflake table or Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg table in a single natural-language conversation.

CoCo samples the files, infers the schema, builds the pipeline and confirms that data loads. The feature is available in Snowsight, CoCo Desktop and CoCo CLI, and anyone with the right permissions can connect a new source without waiting in a data engineering queue.

Global – October 28, 2026 -- Snowflake and Oracle plan to offer Snowflake's AI Data Cloud as a native, first-party service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), with customers buying and being billed directly through Oracle. The companies describe the offering as planned, not committed, and no launch date has been given.

Snowflake on OCI would bring AI, analytics, data engineering, transactions, applications and collaboration workloads closer to enterprise data held in Oracle databases, Oracle applications and OCI services.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Snowflake has released snowflake-decision-fast in private preview, a lower-latency decision model whose endpoint round trips consistently complete in under 300 ms, according to the company. The release comes two weeks after Snowflake introduced the original Snowflake Decision in Cortex AI Functions.

Brazil – October 27, 2026 -- Snowflake has made its Online Feature Store generally available, serving machine learning features in under 10 ms for real-time fraud detection. Two financial-sector customers, Neon and VALID Systems, report lower latency and lower fraud losses after moving to the platform.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Snowflake has put metadata connectors for 18 data, BI and pipeline sources into public preview as part of Horizon Context, a governed context layer inside Horizon Catalog designed to give AI agents and analysts shared business definitions.

Snowflake introduced the layer at Snowflake Summit. It collects metadata, enriches it with business meaning and exposes it to people, BI tools and AI agents. Snowflake's stated aim is to stop teams from rebuilding definitions, such as what counts as customer retention, for every new AI use case.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- NVIDIA has released Kumo, a family of open models, libraries and tools for predictive AI on structured data, and Snowflake customers can run it on GPU compute without moving data out of their accounts. The release is part of NVIDIA's new Agent Knowledge Foundation, a set of open models and libraries meant to help enterprise agents retrieve evidence, apply consistent business meaning, predict outcomes and optimize actions.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Dust, a collaborative AI platform, is targeting three forms of enterprise AI dependency: reliance on a single model provider, loss of control over agent-generated data, and limited visibility into costs and behavior, according to Co-Founder and CTO Stanislas Polu.

Brazil – October 27, 2026 -- Brazilian flat glass maker Vivix expects to cut furnace energy consumption by 3%-5%, extend furnace lifespan by one year and shorten its data collection and analytics cycle by 80%, based on a pilot of an executable digital twin (xDT) built with Siemens, Snowflake and NVIDIA.

United States – – October 27, 2026 -- Brilliant Earth has moved more than 100 showroom operations users off a legacy BI platform and onto Posit dashboards running natively inside Snowflake, cutting software license costs while widening self-serve access to governed data.