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It’s Monday, Future Party. While Nvidia’s annual GTC developers conference featured plenty of cutting-edge announcements, the real showstoppers were Besh and Grek, the autonomous droids built by Disney Imagineering. They were there to show off the power of “Newton,” Nvidia’s soon-to-be-released model for training robots of all shapes, sizes, and, maybe, planetary origin. Besh even joined CEO Jensen Huang onstage. Very cool.

As Endeavor goes back to private under PE firm Silver Lake, CEO Ari Emanuel and Executive Chairman Patrick Whitesell are reportedly stepping away from the company they built.

The Big Picture: Emanuel and Whitesell are not just two of the most influential agents in Hollywood, leading what is arguably the industry’s biggest agency, but they’ve also transformed into media moguls in recent years. Their move away from Endeavor (and especially WME) is one of the biggest Hollywood regime changes in over a decade.

Behind the Scenes: On the heels of Jeremy Zimmer stepping down as CEO of UTA, Emanuel and Whitesell are also passing the crown, according to The Wrap.

Last Call: Endeavor’s return to being a private company is giving the entertainment landscape some serious whiplash. Emanuel fueled the rapid growth of Endeavor through several mergers and acquisitions that hoped to make the balance sheet more stable and attractive to investors (representation alone has always been hard for the markets to understand). But the bet doesn’t seem to have totally paid off, so Endeavor is selling off many of those assets.

Now, Endeavor’s privatization will allegedly be a return to making WME the “main focus of the company,” spearheaded by Endeavor president and COO Mark Shapiro and WME co-chairmen Christian Muirhead and Richard Weitz. It looks as if going back to the basics is the best way forward… and will likely tamper down other agencies’ own M&A ambitions.

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Retailers — from streetwear to luxury to basics — are putting coffee shops inside their brick-and-mortar stores to keep customers around longer and build community.

Why It Fits: Post-COVID, people, especially Gen Zers, are gravitating back to “third spaces” — places where people can be social and feel belonging outside their homes. By creating those spaces inside retail stores, it allows companies to subconsciously transform from fashion brands to lifestyle brands with their own culture… which crafts more brand loyalty.

Behind the Brews: No one likes to go shopping without some coffee in hand, so retailers are giving customers a one-stop shop.

Order Up: Trendy retail brands aren’t the only ones getting in their third-space bonafides. Grocery store Erewhon is the place to see and be seen when picking up an absurdly expensive smoothie with your milk and eggs. Emma Chamberlain’s Chamberlain Coffee is reverse-DTCing its company with a new shop. And Starbucks, which pioneered the in-retailer third space with its locations inside Barnes & Noble bookstores, is revamping its stores to recapture that vibe.

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40.7% of you voted Action/Adventure in Friday’s poll: What film genre would make you more likely to go to the theater?

“I’d go to the theater to see a movie with great special effects.”

“I want a movie worthy of the big-screen real estate and the range of sound. The theater needs to be better than an experience I can create at home with decent hardware.”

“Big action deserves a big screen.”

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🎭 Hugh Jackman and producer Sonia Friedman have launched a new black-box theater company, Together, aimed at giving shared creative credit and equitable pay for performers.

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📱 Apple has shuffled its exec team — a rarity for the company — to put Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell in charge of the Siri team.

🔗 The Trump Administration is considering putting the United States Agency for International Development on the blockchain.

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🎫 StubHub filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “STUB.”

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