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Snowflake is leading the #AI once again! Just unveiled Cortex AI for #FinancialServices along with the new Managed #MCPServer, an enterprise-ready #AI platform designed to scale with the unique needs of highly regulated industries. By embedding AI directly in the Data Cloud, financial firms can unlock new insights while ensuring #security, #governance, and #compliance. It is a complete ecosystem of #AI ready services & tools such as domain specific #datasets, #LLMs, #ML_Models, #Vectorized_Knowledge_Stores which can be accessed via standard MCP server managed by #Snowflake or or directly by various AI agents. You now have instant plugin-play like various AI services that you can leverage from vast network of partners whether you to use AI solutions built on Snowflake Cortex services OR other custom AI tooling. The new Managed MCP Server lets institutions #securely connect external AI agents to their Snowflake data & partner services — enabling powerful use cases in #fraud_detection, #risk_modeling, and #customer_intelligence without ever moving sensitive data. With leading partners like FactSet, MSCI Inc., Nasdaq, Salesforce, and UiPath, Cortex AI helps financial institutions i#nnovate responsibly, faster, and at scale. Some companies just build tools, Snowflake builds entire #industry ecosystems joining partnering with leading companies & solutions and making them plug-in play AI ready for its customers.

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Automatic Identity Management for Entra ID is now GA on Azure Databricks! No more manual provisioning or complex SCIM setups: users, groups (even nested ones), and service principals sync automatically. Learn about how to simplify identity management and accelerate collaboration on Azure Databricks: https://lnkd.in/gVy4j32D

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🚀 Building the future of intelligent automation 🤖 How can Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Container Apps, Cosmos DB, and Container Registry be combined into an intelligent automation pipeline. ✨ Key highlights: - Multi-agent orchestration with Semantic Kernel for task planning, execution, and validation - Azure AI Foundry (GPT-4.1 + o4 models) powering reasoning and decision-making - Azure Cosmos DB as the knowledge backbone storing all historical and active plans - Azure Container Apps & Registry ensuring seamless deployment of frontend + backend - App Service Website providing a simple interface for Customer Service Managers The result: a system where specialized AI agents collaborate to turn complex user input into reliable, automated actions. Link to the full github repo in the comments section 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 #Azure #AI #Automation #MultiAgent #CloudComputing #GenerativeAI

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GPT‑5 Is Now Live in Azure AI Foundry — Here’s What It Means for You.. Let's Discuss!   Microsoft has officially launched GPT‑5 across Azure AI Foundry, offering businesses the most advanced reasoning-powered AI yet, now tailored for real-world scale and reliability (Microsoft Azure).   ** Key Benefits for Azure & AI Users:**   Adaptive AI Flexibility: From deep reasoning to ultra-low latency responses, the GPT‑5 family (including mini, nano, and chat variants) is orchestrated via Azure’s model router, which optimizes model selection for performance and cost — customers can cut inferencing costs by up to 60% with no quality trade-offs (Microsoft Azure). Sharper Enterprise Reasoning: Whether you're automating multi-step workflows, generating complex code, or managing large-context Q&A, GPT‑5 does it with clarity and auditability, making it mission-ready for analytics, developer productivity, and customer service scenarios (Microsoft Azure). Secure and Governed by Design: The Azure AI Foundry ecosystem ensures enterprise-grade security, with built-in safety layers, content filtering, and continuous monitoring through Azure Monitor, Defender for Cloud, and Purview — giving customers both innovation and trust (Microsoft Azure). Faster, Smarter Development: GPT-5 is now powering GitHub Copilot, VS Code, and Microsoft 365 Copilot — enabling developers and enterprise users to automate faster, code smarter, and engage in longer, more coherent multi-turn conversations with trust and context awareness (Source).   For organizations ready to move beyond pilot projects, GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry delivers a powerful, scalable pathway — blending intelligent AI with operational excellence and governance. Curious how this could transform your AI journey? https://lnkd.in/g7GCn2dE #AzureAI #AITransformation #GPT5 #EnterpriseAI #CloudInnovation #SaxonAI  

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Snowflake just announced that Cortex AI SQL Functions are now supported in Dynamic Tables with incremental refresh ❄️ This should help lower the AI (and transformation) cost for anyone who is using Cortex in DTs.

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The TMDL view makes it easy to reuse and share semantic model objects across different semantic models. We've just launched an official TMDL Gallery in the Fabric Community - a place where you can discover and share your favorite semantic model objects as TMDL scripts, making it simple for others to reuse them. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dnzTn4gQ cc 🎯Alexander Korn, Zoe Douglas, John Kerski, Christine Payton to move your scripts from https://lnkd.in/duZ57B7M #tmdl #powerbi

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