The Powers That Be: Daily
By Puck | Audacy
Join Emmy Award-winning journalist Peter Hamby, along with the team of expert journalists at Puck, as they let you in on the real conversations insiders are having across the four corners of power in America: Wall Street, Washington, Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Puck's contributors will bring you smart conversation around the inside stories happening in these worlds. Presented in partnership with Audacy, new episodes publish daily, Monday-Friday.
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JD Vance and the Collapse of the Israel Exception
JD Vance's public criticism of Israel signals a shift in Republican foreign policy. By moving away from traditional hawkishness toward nationalist restraint, he is turning the Israel exception into a transactional, populist political liability.
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Google Embedding AI Tooling Into the Hollywood Supply Chain
Google is not competing with Hollywood. Instead, it is becoming the operating system for the industry. By building AI tools directly into creative workflows, tech giants are establishing a proprietary data loop that turns every creator into a supplier.
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Comcast Spin-off Signals End of Vertical Media Integration
Comcast spinning off NBCUniversal shows that the integrated media model has failed. Investors now need to separate agile, high-value intellectual property from the legacy linear assets that tech companies are unwilling to buy.
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Navigating Media Autonomy Within The MAG 10 Era
Neutrality has become a luxury in modern media, where corporate survival now dictates what gets created. Learn how to decouple your business model from political dependencies so you can maintain autonomy in the era of MAG 10.
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Prioritizing Core Competency Over Horizontal Integration Strategy
Competitive advantage comes from refining your core product to an extreme degree instead of expanding into new areas. By saying no to side projects and embracing regulatory transparency, companies build lasting defenses that generalists cannot easily copy.
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