All Data and AI Weekly #236-06-April-2026

All Data and AI Weekly #236-06April2026 ( AI, Data, Agentic AI, Cortex Code, NiFi, Iceberg, Polaris, Streamlit, Python, Java, SQL, MCP, LLM, RAG, Cortex AI, AISQL, Search, Unstructured Data ) Tim's Corner: An Easter Basket Full of Data Goodness Happy Easter and Happy Passover! Welcome to issue 236! Just like an Easter egg hunt, this week is packed with hidden treasures waiting to be discovered across the Snowflake ecosystem. The engineering team cracked open a must-read on why you need a semantic model, the Agentic Enterprise Control Plane vision continues to hatch new ideas, and Ontology on Snowflake went from architecture to deployment with a dedicated Cortex Code skill. On the platform side, CTAS support for Unity Catalog external volumes landed, Snowflake Directory Imports are here, and the Network Policy Advisor gives you a new egg-shaped lens on your security posture. Meanwhile, the community has been busy - guides on migrating Tableau to Streamlit with AI, building production-re