Agents SDK applies a default minimum similarity cutoff to searches

Searches against synced data filter out weakly related results by default, and the minimum similarity cutoff can be adjusted or turned off.

https://docs.airbyte.com/release_notes/agents#august-18-2026

SnowflakeSnowflake Horizon Catalog·Aug 18, 2026

Access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (Preview)

You can now use the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) API to access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables in a catalog-linked database from external engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino, DuckDB, or PyIceberg.

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SnowflakeSnowflake Cortex AI·Aug 18, 2026

Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot (General availability)

Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot is now generally available. You can upload a .pbit or .pbix file to Semantic View Autopilot and have a semantic view created automatically from your existing data model, preserving the DAX measures, table relationships, and column descriptions you’ve already built in Power BI and making them available to Cortex...

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SnowflakeSnowflake·Aug 18, 2026

User skills in Snowflake CoWork (Preview)

User skills are now available in public preview in Snowflake CoWork. Business users can create reusable workflows conversationally, from the UI ( + menu > Skills > Create new ), or by uploading a skill folder on Capabilities > Skills , then run them explicitly with / or from the Skills menus, or implicitly when a conversation matches the skill.

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Google CloudGemini Enterprise Agent Platform·Aug 18, 2026

CodeMender updates (v0.4.0): Model support

This release introduces updates to CodeMender: Gemini 3 Flash removal : Gemini 3 Flash ( gemini-3-flash-preview ) is no longer supported as a model backend for CodeMender. CodeMender supports Gemini 3.5 Flash (default) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. For more information, see Specifying the model .

PreviewLLMsSource

Google CloudGemini Enterprise·Aug 18, 2026

Gemini Enterprise: Google Sites federated connector (GA)

The Google Sites federated connector is generally available (GA) on Gemini Enterprise. You can use the Gemini Enterprise app assistant to search across internal company websites, team sites, intranets, project hubs, and informational pages hosted on Google Sites, and get answers grounded in that content without needing to ingest the data.

GALLMsData integrationSource

Google CloudGemini Enterprise·Aug 18, 2026

Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.6 Flash available in US and EU multi-regions

Gemini 3.6 Flash is generally available in the us and eu multi-regions, and an allowlist is no longer required to use Gemini 3.6 Flash in the us multi-region. To make Gemini 3.6 Flash available to users in the Gemini Enterprise app, administrators must turn on the Gemini 3.6 Flash feature toggle in the Google Cloud console.

GALLMsNotebooksRegionsSource