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‘I’ll Be Gone in June’ Acquired by Luxbox Ahead of Premiere in Cannes

Paris-based sales company Luxbox has acquired Katharina Rivilis’ drama “I’ll Be Gone in June,” which has been selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. The film, whose producers include Wim Wenders, is distributed in Germany and Switzerland by DCM. In 2001, Franny, a 16-year-old exchange student from Germany, arrives in the sleepy desert town of Las…

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AI agents replicate human social dynamics in days

In January, the social-media platform Moltbook opened exclusively to artificial-intelligence agents (see Nature 650, 533–534; 2026) — it was acquired by Meta six weeks later. Within days of the launch, it hosted self-declared rulers demanding loyalty, the policing of ‘inauthentic’ participants and cryptocurrency-token launches framed as liberation from human gatekeepers. As AI agents permeate commercial…

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IBM pays up under Trump administration’s diversity blitz • The Register

IBM has become the first company to settle with the US government under the Trump administration’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, a program aimed at ensuring diversity programs don’t cross a line and result in discrimination. The administration defined its position on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Executive Order 14173, issued in January 2025, which…

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