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Allow Puck founding partner Baratunde Thurston to introduce you to his latest dispatch, “Wall Street’s A.I. Gamble.” Read the full story, presented by Meta, here: https://lnkd.in/eJmiHQkS Video: Ryan Jones Credit: YouTube (TheStreet, The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest) #AI #WallStreet 

“Somewhere along the way, goop got a little lost,” Puck’s Rachel Strugatz writes of the 16-year-old wellness brand. “Despite its extraordinary brand power, the business lacks focus and the strong executive leadership required to become an attractive acquisition target.” Enter Julia Hunter, who propelled Jenni Kayne from $3 million to more than $100 million in revenue during a memorable stint as C.E.O. a few years ago. With Gwyneth Paltrow having tapped Julia to help Goop through its awkward adolescence, Rachel approached Julia for a candid conversation about how she plans to turn things around (and whether that’ll include a Goop fashion week show). Read their full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/e6abBBcf Photos: Arturo Holmes/WWD/Getty Images, courtesy of Goop.

A new poll from Echelon Insights, in partnership with Puck, suggests voters are queasy about eliminating or drastically reducing the size of several federal agencies—as Trump and his superheated allies are champing at the bit to decimate. With DOGE specifically, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are proposing bone-deep cuts to the size of government… Puck’s Peter Hamby shares more polling data, and a potential future angle for Democrats, here: https://lnkd.in/euaPZebA Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

The Brooklyn Museum has announced textile designer and painter Melissa Joseph as the winner of this year’s UOVO prize, which recognizes the work of an emerging Brooklyn-based artist. “She is working with felt that’s pulled and stretched and woven and doing something with the material I haven’t quite seen an artist do before” Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak says. Puck’s Marion Maneker spoke with Anne plus Uovo founder Steven Guttman about Joseph and the prize: https://lnkd.in/eTN5Q2xB Photo: Miguel McSongwe #Art 

Next year, presumably on the earlier side of the first quarter, The Washington Post publisher's and C.E.O. William Lewis intends to announce that he has appointed acting executive editor Matt Murray as the newsroom’s permanent chief. “The news, which Will has been delaying for unspecified reasons, will bring an anticlimactic end to a long and tortured recruitment effort at a storied paper that—as you know, dear reader—has endured a rather miserable and ignominious few years of financial irresponsibility, soul-searching, and chaos,” Puck’s Dylan Byers writes. “Murray, after all, was not Will’s first choice…” Dylan has details: https://lnkd.in/eTnHZHui Photo: Robert Miller/The Washington Post via Getty Images #Media 

It’s Puck congressional correspondent Abby Livingston’s pick for King of the Hill, the most important person on Capitol Hill this week. To read more, subscribe to Puck’s Washington newsletter “The Best & The Brightest” here: https://lnkd.in/ecEbisfa Photos: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call

“It’s a novel experience to watch control freaks and masters of the universe find themselves in an environment they can’t control while experiencing something they’ve never experienced before,” Puck’s William D. Cohan writes of Zero-G’s flights. When Bill recently got an invited aboard, he got to experience it himself—and came back to earth to write a detailed account of the rise, fall, and return of Zero Gravity Corporation under executive chairman Matt Gohd. Read it in full here: https://lnkd.in/e6FXD4xg Photos courtesy of Zero Gravity #Space 

The Walt Disney Company C.E.O. Bob Iger decided to settle the Donald Trump defamation litigation against ABC News for $15 million plus $1 million in legal fees and a statement of “regret.” The question is, why? Puck’s Matthew Belloni and Kim Masters dig in, and assess the implications for ABC and George Stephanopoulos: https://lnkd.in/ekiBNaYD Photo: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images #Media #Legal 

Puck fashion correspondent Lauren Sherman has a candid conversation with Jens Grede, the C.E.O. of SKIMS and member of the husband-wife team that turned Kim’s shapewear avocation into a fully realized category leader, replete with a likely I.P.O. and future liquidity event. Read their full exchange—including why Grede doesn’t like “celebrity brands”—here: https://lnkd.in/eqwYu_iQ Photos: Darian DiCianno/BFA.com; Jeenah Moon for The Washington Post via Getty Images #Fashion #Retail

Matthew Berry, the fantasy football purveyor and former ESPNer, talks candidly about “needle-movers,” the Bristol star system, the changing nature of talent deals, and building Fantasy Life. Read or listen to his full conversation with Puck's John Ourand here: https://lnkd.in/ePwZJpWf Photo: Nick Cammett/Getty Images #Sports #Media