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Snowflake's Cortex AI Gateway Signals MCP Gateways Are Crystallizing as Infrastructure
Snowflake’s launch of the Cortex AI Gateway marks a pivotal shift in enterprise AI towards agent interoperability with a focus on security, positioning MCP gateways as foundational infrastructure. This follows major industry moves in agent identity and signals growing capital and competitive pressure to standardize and secure multi-agent workflows.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI & ML.
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You must treat agent identity as a central part of your stack this week and explore centralised gateways for managing AI tool calls and security. This shift forces you to move beyond data pipelines to multi-agent governance or risk being sidelined in the emerging AI infrastructure layer.
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