Snap gets closer to releasing new AI glasses after years-long hiatus0

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• April 10, 2026

Snap has announced a new partnership between its AR-glasses focused subsidiary, Specs, and chipmaker Qualcomm, as the company revs up for the release of its wearable later this year. The Snapchat creator has been teasing the release of the glasses—dubbed Spectacles, or merely Specs—for a long time and, earlier this year, it spun off a