China blocked Meta's AI deal, The Devil Wears Prada 2 drops Thursday, and I made egg salad from an emu egg

China just blocked Meta's $2 billion AI acquisition, The Devil Wears Prada 2 drops THIS Thursday, and I spent my weekend making a concerning amount of egg salad from an emu egg (I have 0 explanation).

Let's get into it.

China blocked Meta's $2 billion AI acquisition

Meta is preparing to undo its acquisition of Manus, a China-founded AI startup that got a lot of attention last year when it proved its ability to complete multi-step tasks like research and data analysis on its own. Basically, China's regulators stepped in and blocked the acquisition, citing concerns about AI know-how moving to U.S. companies. Some Manus employees had already moved into Meta's Singapore office and started working. Meta is claiming the purchase was totally legal. The whole world is now watching!

The Devil Wears Prada 2 opens Thursday and I have already blocked my afternoon

Twenty years after the original, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci are all back. The premiere was at Lincoln Center last weekend, and yes, Streep did wear Prada. Andy Sachs is now Features Editor at Runway (go Andy), Miranda Priestly is fighting to keep the magazine alive in a new media landscape, and Emily is running a luxury brand that may be the only thing that can save them. If you've been quoting The Devil Wears Prada 1 since it came out (guilty!), this is your film. Thursday. Be there.

55% of Fortune 100 companies now require five days in the office (up from 5% in 2021)

More than half of Fortune 100 companies now mandate full-time, in-person attendance, a list that includes Amazon, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, AT&T, Dell, and many, many more. In 2021, that number was 5%. But…despite required in-office time rising by 12% between 2024 and 2025, actual attendance has only gone up by 1 to 3%. Meaning the mandates are very real, and the compliance is more of a personal journey!

This weekend I fully let the intrusive thoughts win. Somehow, and I want to stress that I do not have a great explanation for this, I ended up with an emu egg. One emu egg. Which, if you've never seen one, is roughly the size of a giant avocado and the same shade of green. No easy way to say this: I made egg salad from an emu egg. Reader, it was surprisingly good. The problem is that one emu egg makes approximately the same amount of egg salad as a small catering order. Anyone want to come over for egg salad sandwiches?

Finally dressing to match my newsletter colors! Still obsessed with barrel jeans (I own them in a quantity I will describe as enough to raise eyebrows, not enough to stage an intervention) and ballet flats with a cutie little bow. Spring has arrived!

The Slack notification audit you have been avoiding for two years takes three minutes. Go to your sidebar, and for every channel you're in but don't actually need to respond in: mute it. Then take the three to five channels that actually require your attention and drag them into a section at the top called something like "check first." You are not going to miss anything. You are going to feel like a different person on Monday morning.

Thanks for reading!