Snowflake announced Cortex AI Gateway on Tuesday, a centralized control layer to govern how AI agents, including those built by competitors like Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor, access enterprise data, tools, and models. Alongside the gateway, the company unveiled a first wave of security integrations with 1Password, Aembit, Linx Security, SailPoint, and Saviynt, aligned around a shared trust model for autonomous agents. The announcement was made from the company's base in Bozeman, Montana. Mayank Upadhyay, Snowflake's chief security and trust officer, told VentureBeat that "the next era of AI won't be built through more walled gardens" but through "secure agent interoperability." He argued that traditional security was built for a world where humans were the actors, but AI agents change that completely, as agents operating at machine speed can "combine access across systems and act on permissions that were never intended to be exercised together." Nancy Wang, chief technology officer of 1Password, described a failure mode where agents are given credentials to act as a user, noting that a head of security with admin access could suddenly have an agent acting as them.