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Soda is the top SNAP item; 60% buys ultra-processed food
“The number one item on food stamps is soda and more than 60% go to ultra processed food.”
Means: Democrats reflexively defend $10B SNAP soda subsidy against Trump
“You've had Democrats passionately arguing that we need to continue to have a ten billion dollar subsidy from the federal government to soda companies on snap just reflexively because, you know, the Trump administration happens to be talking about this.”
Hays: Snap pursues $100 million partnership with Robert Downey Jr.
“Snap is working on a deal with Robert Downey Jr. To spend a hundred million dollars potentially for a partnership there, which is deeply confusing.”
Snap Cancels Planned $400 Million Deal With Perplexity AI
“Four hundred million dollar deal with perplexity is no longer happening. I guess that's been pulled back on.”
Coogan: $2,200 Snap Spectacles are too chunky for real-life wear
“But Meta's is 800 dollars, and Specs from Snap is 2200 dollars. They are so chunky, they look like something you might see in a Prada ad and never in real life.”
Snap Lays Off 1,000 Employees to Cut Costs and Target Profitability
“So he's laying off a thousand full-time employees, which is roughly 16% of the global workforce, as part of an effort to reduce costs and achieve profitability.”
Gurman: Snap should partner with Google rather than develop SnapOS
“In my mind, they might be just better off sort of lowering their R&D on these things by focusing on their hardware, partnering with a company like Google, and putting their own social layer over Android XR, but obviously they have their own SnapOS.”
Means: US Only Country Allowing Welfare Funds for Soda and Junk Food
“We're the only country in the world where a low-income nutrition assistance program goes to soda and Twinkies.”
Gurman: Snap aims to launch consumer Spectacles in 2026
“They're trying to get this consumer version of the glasses out on the market next year.”
Coogan: Qualcomm manufactures chips for Meta, Snap, and Samsung smart glasses
“Zaid, who heads the division of Qualcomm, responsible for making the chips that go into the meta the meta, Snap, and Samsung smart glasses.”
Snap's market cap equals Meta's $14B Scale AI deal
“Snaps market cap, exactly what meta just paid for a 50% stake in scale AI, fourteen billion.”
Snap glasses developers can integrate Google's Gemini AI models
“Snap said that developers will be able to incorporate Google's Gemini AI models into programs that they developed for smart glasses.”
Hayes: Snapchat's creator fund paid out $1M per day
“Snapchat was also, they launched their whole creator fund and they were paying out like a million dollars a day”
Snap's 2024 Spectacles required a $99 monthly annual developer lease
“The most recent edition of spectacles were released in September, 20, 24 to developers only that edition of the glasses was available under a leasing model that record that required users to commit to paying 99 a month for a full year if you wanted to develop …”