All Data and AI Weekly #220: 15 Dec 2025

All Data and AI Weekly #220: 15 Dec 2025

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❄️ The Data Cloud & AI Weekly

Date: December 15, 2025

Theme: The Era of Agentic AI & The Open Lakehouse

🚀 Top Story: The Shift to Agentic AI

The industry is rapidly moving from simple chatbots to autonomous agents. Snowflake has solidified this direction by joining the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) and releasing new predictions for 2026.

• Snowflake Joins AAIF: Snowflake has joined industry leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI in the Agentic AI Foundation to standardize the building blocks of AI agents.
  • Read the Announcement
• 2026 Predictions: The "Data + AI Predictions 2026" report suggests that agents will soon drive centralized enterprise strategy, moving beyond experimentation to core business operations.
  • Claude Blog: How Enterprises are Building AI Agents
• Managed MCP Servers: Snowflake now supports managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, allowing you to securely connect AI agents to your enterprise data without complex infrastructure.
  • Anthropic: Donating the MCP

🛠 Tim's Projects & Community Code

A look at practical implementations and open-source tools.

• Tim's projects: https://github.com/tspannhw/trinotosnowflakeicebergrestinterface/tree/main

• https://llmday.com./2026-nyc-q1/Tim_Spann_Snowflake_From_TrafficAI_to_GhostBreakers_Building_Stateful_AI_Agents_with_Cortex__OpenFlo

• https://github.com/tspannhw/RPIWeatherStreaming/

• https://github.com/tspannhw/SnowflakeOpenLakehouseAthenaIceberg/blob/main/README.md

• Trino to Snowflake Iceberg REST: A bridge for connecting Trino to Snowflake via the Iceberg REST interface.

  • View on GitHub

• RPI Weather Streaming: Real-time weather data streaming using Raspberry Pi.

  • View on GitHub

• Snowflake Open Lakehouse: Comprehensive guide and code for Athena, Iceberg, and Snowflake Open Catalog integration.

  • View on GitHub

• Tim's Talk: TrafficAI to GhostBreakers: Building stateful AI agents with Cortex and OpenFlo (Upcoming Q1 2026).

  • Event Link

🏗 Data Engineering & The Open Lakehouse

Technical deep dives on Iceberg, Glue, and Streaming.

Iceberg & Catalog Integration

• AWS Glue & Iceberg REST: Essential documentation for configuring Snowflake and AWS Glue to talk via the Iceberg REST catalog.
  • Snowflake Docs: Configure Catalog Integration (Glue)
  • AWS Docs: Connect Glue to Iceberg REST
• Reliable Writes: How the Iceberg REST Catalog ensures data consistency.
  • Engineering Blog: Reliable Writes

Streaming & Architecture

• The Anti-Streaming Pattern: A compelling argument for why you should stop pressuring referential databases with streaming workloads.
  • Read on Medium
• Kafka & Iceberg: Integration options for Apache Kafka and Snowflake.
  • Kai Waehner's Blog

🧠 Snowflake Intelligence & Cortex

Updates on the AI features within the Data Cloud.

• Graph Agents (Private Preview): Snowflake Intelligence now supports Graph Agents, enabling complex relationship analysis directly within the platform.
  • Announcing Private Preview
• Real-Time Text-to-SQL: Enhancements to Snowflake Intelligence for converting natural language to SQL on the fly.
  • Engineering Blog
• Semantic Views: New Terraform resources for managing Semantic Views are now available.
  • Terraform Registry Docs
• Cortex Best Practices: A guide to building robust Cortex Agents.
  • Developer Guide

🔧 Dev Tools & Utilities

Interesting tools found around the web.

• toMCP: A brilliant utility that converts any website or documentation into a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for your AI agents.
  • GitHub: Ami3466/tomcp
• MindForger: A "Thinking Notebook" and Markdown editor designed for personal knowledge management.
  • GitHub: dvorka/mindforger
• Z-Image: A new open-source image generation model.
  • GitHub: Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
• Octo: A Chip8 IDE for the retro-computing enthusiasts.
  • GitHub: JohnEarnest/Octo

📅 Upcoming Events & Webinars

• TOMORROW - Dec 16, 2025:
  • [Webinar] How DTCC Fostered Operational Resilience using Snowflake Cortex AI
  • Register Here
• Jan 8, 2026:
  • [Virtual Lab] Build Your Own Enterprise Intelligence Agent
  • Register Here
• Jan 15, 2026:
  • Snowflake Connect: Data Engineering
  • Event Page
• Jan 27, 2026:
  • Snowflake Connect: AI
  • Event Page

🎨 Culture Break

The Public Domain Review

Take a break from the code and explore curated collections of images, audio, and film from the history of art, literature, and ideas.

Visit PublicDomainReview.org

Thanks

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