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In the latest move to respond to the influx of visuals created using artificial intelligence, social media app Snapchat announced it would add a watermark to such images.

Four school boards in Ontario, Canada have launched a $4.5 billion lawsuit against social media giants Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok for what they describe as negligently designed apps.

Snap launched its miniature Pixy drone in 2022, though it ended production just four months later. Now, the company is recalling all of the drones it sold due to fire hazards from the batteries.

A judge has ruled that social media companies -- including Meta, Google, Snap, and ByteDance -- must face the hundreds of lawsuits blaming them for children's addiction to its platforms.

Thursday, the final iteration of photography social media app Snapchat and Los Angeles-based museum LACMA’s joint exhibition was released.

Snapchat has announced Lens Creator Rewards, a new program that pays augmented reality creators who make popular Lenses.

Snapchat is a popular social media app that makes it easy to keep in touch with friends and quickly share selfies, photos, and videos. With 382 million daily active users, it's also a great place to get brand exposure.

The public school district in Seattle has filed a lawsuit against the companies behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat, accusing them of harming young people’s mental health.

In a return to the old normal, Snap Camera, which added filters to Zoom calls, is going away.

Snapchat is giving users more advanced video editing tools by rolling out a new feature called Director Mode.

Snapchat is making the desktop version of its app, Snapchat for Web, available to all users worldwide.

Snap, the parent company of photo-sharing app Snapchat, is laying off 20 percent of its staff this week, which equates to over 1,000 employees.

Snapchat is getting real. Or, it’s at least taking a cue from fellow social media company BeReal with its new dual camera feature.

Snap has agreed on a settlement of $35 million in an Illinois class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition.

Snap's Pixy drone was announced only four months ago, but the company has already decided it's not going to make more.

Snapchat has launched a new in-app safety tool that lets parents see who their teens have sent messages, photos, or videos to in the last week -- but keeps the content of the material hidden.

California may soon hold social media companies responsible for the harm caused to children who become addicted to their products thanks to a new bill that passed the state Assembly.

Snapchat, Google, and Apple are being sued by a 16-year-old girl and her mother who claim the platforms failed to protect teen users from “egregious harm.”

Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, has announced its long-rumored drone. Called Pixy, the company is positioning it as a friendly, pocket-sized, free-flying sidekick.

Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, has purchased brain-computer interface startup NextMind whose technology could be used to directly control augmented reality (AR) tools just with thought, like the Spectacles or forthcoming camera drone.

Snapchat has announced that users will be able to change their usernames without having to create an entirely new account. Snapchat previously did not allow this due to "security reasons."

Snapchat has historically been a messaging and fun communications app, but the company appears interested in shifting that narrative through Scan, a feature that lets the app identify a host of objects in the real world, from clothes to dog breeds.

Confirming a report from early March, Snap has officially announced its ambitious next-generation augmented reality (AR) Spectacles. They sound incredibly ambitous, but they also aren't for sale.

Snap is working on its next-generation glasses that will be able to layer Snapchat lenses (which are augmented reality effects) onto the environment without needing to use a smartphone camera, according to a new report. It has also reportedly revived its plans to introduce a selfie-drone.

VSCO has partnered with Snap Inc. to release its first ever Snapchat lens. Dubbed 'Analog,' the sponsored lens is free to use and "designed to celebrate the imperfections, mistakes, and happy accidents found when shooting with film."

Snapchat's Spectacles camera glasses generated a huge amount of hype when they were slowly released in 2016, but total sales were reportedly disappointing. But that isn't stopping the company from doubling down on the project: it just announced Spectacles 2.0 with design improvements and the ability to shoot still photos.

Snapchat ran its first TV commercial this past weekend. As you can see in the 60-second video above, the company is trying to sell itself to a wider audience as "A New Kind of Camera."

Snap Inc’s experimental foray into wearables may not have had much of a financial impact for the struggling company, but they did create some buzz with their pop-up ‘Snapbot’ vending machines. Now they’ve made their Spectacles available directly on Amazon at the same $130 price.

Snap Inc., the parent company of image and video sharing app Snapchat, reported their quarterly financial results for the first time since going public on Wednesday, and it isn’t pretty. Snap’s user growth slowed down and revenue was below Wall Street expectations for the quarter.

Snap's IPO is complete and the 5-year-old tech company behind Snapchat is now officially a publicly traded corporation. Shares in Snap have exploded nearly 50% in the stock's debut today, valuing the company at around $29 billion.