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Court Throws Out Challenge to Vice President Gibran

Indonesia's Constitutional Court dismissed a petition against Gibran Rakabuming Raka's election win, and one columnist says the country was lucky.

On Tuesday evening, Indonesia's Constitutional Court dismissed a petition challenging Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka's election win, which had been brought over educational requirements. With the dismissal, the case against his holding office goes no further, and he remains vice president.

The Jakarta Post's commentary, headlined "Flawed candidacy, untouchable office," puts the result bluntly: Indonesia dodged a constitutional crisis on Tuesday, but only because the Constitutional Court looked the other way. It is a sharp reading of a ruling that closed the petition without necessarily settling the unease around it, and it is the angle worth watching from here.

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Lululemon's New CEO Rebuilds the Top Team

Heidi O'Neill's first move at lululemon is a C-suite overhaul, with Athleta's Maggie Gauger named president.

Heidi O'Neill's first move as lululemon's CEO is a big one. She has tapped a new product chief and a chief operating officer, and she is still looking to fill three other C-suite roles. Alongside that, Athleta's Maggie Gauger has been named president in what WWD calls a shake-up at lululemon.

Both activewear brands have been struggling with weak financial performances in recent seasons, so the pressure to act is plain. Rebuilding so much of the leadership team at once is a bold start for a new chief executive, and with three seats still open, more announcements look likely to follow.

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Telfar Invited Paris, Then Showed in New York

Telfar's Spring 2027 presentation skipped the Paris calendar it had invited the industry to, and honored its own customers instead.

Telfar sent out invitations to a Paris fashion show for Spring 2027, then held the show in New York instead. Harper's Bazaar called the presentation anti-establishment and said it honored the people who actually buy his clothes. Fashionista's daily roundup, tellingly, wrote that Telfar "shows" the collection in Paris, with the quotation marks doing the work.

It is a neat bit of mischief in the middle of Paris Fashion Week, where Nicolas Ghesquière's Louis Vuitton drew a front row as buzzy as the clothes. Telfar's answer was to point the spotlight elsewhere, at customers rather than the industry that usually fills the seats. Whether or not you follow runway calendars, it is a reminder that a brand can set its own terms.

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Pentagon Wants AI Deals Pitched in Five Minutes

The US government's Tradewinds initiative is speeding up "kill chain" AI purchases, with millions flowing to nontraditional defense contractors.

The Pentagon hopes to speed up its purchases of AI for the "kill chain" through five-minute videos. Its Tradewinds initiative has made it easier for the US government to throw millions of dollars at "nontraditional" defense contractors, including OpenAI and Anthropic.

The story, reported by WIRED on Wednesday, sits where fast-moving AI companies meet slow-moving military procurement. A five-minute video is a very short runway for deals worth millions, and the "kill chain" label makes plain what kind of systems are at stake. It is worth reading for how far the buying process has been loosened for firms that were never traditional defense suppliers.