A corporate divorce, an AI glasses arms race, and a newly-married me refusing to come home

Every tech company wants to sell you smart glasses, one of the biggest media conglomerates is restructuring, and Prime Day went from "treat yourself" to "stock up on paper towels" this year.

Let's get into it.

Meta tapped Kylie Jenner for its new smart glasses launch, and somehow that tells you everything about where this category is headed.

In case you missed it, 2026 is the new 2016 which means Kylie Jenner is everywhere again, convincing you to buy something you probably don’t need but inexplicably want. But this time she’s swapping Lip Kits for the new Meta Glasses which launched last week. These new styles, which include a Kylie collab called Starfire, were designed in-house and start at $299, undercutting Meta's own Ray-Ban line by $80. Each comes with a camera, an AI assistant, and live translation in 20+ languages. But Kylie and Zuck aren’t the only ones fighting for the free space on your face. Meta Glasses hit the market just a week after Snap unveiled Specs, its own smart glasses, which CEO Evan Spiegel called the heir apparent to your smartphone. Perhaps that’s how he’s justifying the $2,195 price tag? Meanwhile, Google and Samsung recently unveiled their own intelligent eyewear with frames designed in partnership with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker with Gemini built in. There are two versions: audio glasses that give you spoken help in your ear, and display glasses that surface information right in your line of sight, both launching this fall. Apple's supposedly cooking up its own pair too with no display, just cameras and a souped-up Siri. Reports point to a debut around the holiday season later this year, so we’ll leave it up to Santa to decide which ones we should get.

Comcast and NBCUniversal are calling it quits after over a decade together.

Comcast announced it's spinning off NBCUniversal into its own publicly traded company, undoing the 2011 merger that put SNL, Shrek, and The Office under the same corporate roof as your cable bill. Before you pick sides, just know that NBCUniversal isn’t walking away empty handed. Peacock, the Universal theme parks, NBC News, and European broadcaster Sky, will remain with NBCUniversal while Comcast keeps the cable and broadband business it actually wants to focus on. Analysts think this is Comcast quietly setting NBCUniversal up to get scooped up by someone like Netflix or Apple, though the company swears it's just about "agility." Sure... Either way, investors are into it with the stock lifting by 4.5% after the news broke.

Even Prime Day deals are prioritizing practicality over fun this year.

Prime Day ran from June 23–26 this year, three weeks earlier than its usual July slot, and the consensus is it was a great moment to stock up on the essentials but not necessarily the time for big ticket purchases. While many shoppers previously have indulged in the deals during Amazon's big annual sale, this most recent discount event leaned hard into groceries and household essentials. Amazon says that’s intentional and acknowledged people are trying to make their money stretch further right now. Translation: shoppers are reaching for trash bags and dishwasher pods instead of impulse-buying the latest gadget and Amazon is taking notice. So if you spent Prime Day buying paper towels instead of something fun, I feel you. We deserve a little treat to make up for it. Alexa, add something sweet to our cart.

The honeymoon is not over and if it were up to me, it would never end. I’ve eaten enough pasta and drank enough wine to qualify as Italian so I’m staying right here. I’ve also fully convinced myself that moving to Lake Como is a realistic life plan (it is not, but let me have this). I’m currently in Capri, where I plan to continue avoiding any and all thoughts of returning to reality and, by default, work. Anyway, I’m too busy taking pasta making classes and planning a career pivot into opening my own little pasta shop worthy of a Stanley Tucci travel segment. So if anyone needs me, respectfully…no you don't.

Yes, I'm still wearing all white. No, I’m not sorry. I'll be milking being a bride for as long as humanly possible, thank you very much. The best part of being a summer bride is that the wedding wardrobe transitions seamlessly into a nice set of summer whites. And since it’s basically a blank canvas, you can have a lot of fun with styling a seemingly simple set with any number of fun accessories. The Italian weather also has me fully embracing flowy fabrics like this breezy crop top and pleated maxi skirt. It's the kind of movement that makes you feel like you're in a movie paired with sneakers that make you feel like you won’t fall on your face on these old European streets. At this point I'm just trying to blend in and not scream "tourist." Is it working? Please lie to me.

Coming back from a vacation means your email inbox, Slack mentions, and every other work platform you rightfully deleted from your phone while OOO have all fully evolved into their own ecosystems. The dread of confronting, let alone getting through, all of these notifications can feel like a month’s worth of Sunday scaries all at once.

If you’re thinking "I need to read every single email,” let me save you from what will certainly end in a full blown crash out:

Let’s be real: You’re going to be tempted to jump in to the chaos the night before. But returning to work well-rested is the true hack here. If you’re itching to get into your inbox, go ahead and hide all your work apps from your home screen. Keep your Notes or Reminders app on there and write out a bulleted top-priority list of what you actually need to check in on and accomplish this week. Everything else can wait a day. It survived without you for this long.

Once you’re ready to sign on, before you respond to a single Slack, open your calendar and block 45 minutes at the start of your day just to triage. Future you will thank past you for carving out time to catch up before the inevitable influx of follow ups flood in.

Sort everything by sender first, not date. Skim for anything from your manager, a teammate who was covering for you, or a client with an actual deadline. Handle those, then mass-mark the rest as “Read.” You can search for anything you missed later.

And for your next trip? If you can get away with setting your out-of-office to expire a day after you're actually back, do that. Some managers might not love this so read the room first. But if you can swing it, you now have a built-in re-entry buffer with zero guilt attached.

Thanks for reading!