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Snap has announced strategic partnerships with Nvidia, Amazon Web Services and Salesforce to push its augmented reality glasses into the enterprise market. The collaboration brings together high-performance AI silicon, cloud infrastructure and enterprise software, signalling Snap’s most ambitious move yet from consumer social applications into industrial, training and remote-collaboration use cases. The partnerships mark a significant milestone in the broader shift of augmented reality from consumer novelty to enterprise utility.

Snap has officially launched its $2,195 augmented reality glasses, with CEO Evan Spiegel positioning it as the company’s strategic bet on the post-smartphone era.

Over 3 million Americans have lost food assistance through the federal SNAP program due to funding interruptions, triggering widespread humanitarian concerns, according to the Wall Street Journal.