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Jury hands victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in battle with Elon Musk

OpenAI CEO and president found not liable for breaking contracts made with Musk when founding the startup

Pope Leo to issue text on human dignity and AI with Anthropic co-founder

The pope’s encyclical will address ‘the protection of the human person in the age of AI’, the Vatican says

How realistic is threat of Iran charging to use internet cables under strait of Hormuz?

Plan floated in Iranian media to extract revenues from US tech firms would rely on intimidation and is legally dubious

Anthropic to share Mythos cyber flaw findings with global finance watchdog

Startup has declined to release Claude Mythos AI model publicly amid fears it could be used by hackers

Tribe review – compelling, unsettling search for a lost sect in the California mountains

Dan Asma’s impressive debut feature follows a retired professor, played by the director himself, whose research leads him to Lovecraftian terrors

Relentless Memory review – a vital oral history of the plight of the Mapuche people

In Paula Rodríguez’s impressionistic documentary, an academic’s South American travelogue brings the painful story of a proud Indigenous society to life

‘An orgy of antisemitism is overtaking the west’: Son of Saul’s László Nemes on Hollywood hypocrisy

His extraordinary Auschwitz film won every award going. Now the Hungarian director is back with new drama Orphan, as well as a Jean Moulin biopic at Cannes. He talks about resurgent global prejudice – and refusing to be lectured by the film industry ‘overclass’

French star Patrick Bruel denies multiple sexual assault allegations

Singer and actor who has appeared in more than 40 films faces investigations in France and Belgium

Garance review – Adèle Exarchopoulos gives it her all in ripe but flimsy portrait of alcohol addiction

Cannes film festival: Performer is as good as ever but her actor character is thinly conceived in a fundamentally implausible depiction of how to grapple with alcoholism

France’s top film producer says it will blacklist figures who petitioned against rightwing billionaire

Canal+ head says he will not work with hundreds of actors and directors who signed protest against Vincent Bolloré’s political sway

Moulin review – László Nemes’s resistance hero drama is chilling, stirring and surprisingly conventional

Cannes film festival: The Son of Saul director’s dramatisation of Jean Moulin’s torture by Klaus Barbie both benefits and suffers from its mainstream approach

Harlem Renaissance documentary finally gets global premiere 50 years after cameras rolled

Once Upon a Time in Harlem, completed by relatives of William Greaves after his death, showcased at Cannes

La Gradiva review – stunning coming-of-age story of young love and sexual tension

Cannes film festival: Marine Atlan’s debut film follows a group of French high-school kids and their long-suffering teacher on a visit to Pompeii and Naples

Propeller One-Way Night Coach review – John Travolta family plane fantasy is a short-haul joyride

Travolta directs and narrates this 60-minute adaptation of his own short story about a boy who dreams of being a pilot

Record numbers of UK renters crowdfunding to cover bills

Rent donations on GoFundMe up 60% since 2022, with 100,000 donors helping people keep a roof over their heads

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  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
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  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
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  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
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  • UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content
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  • I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers
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  • Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis ballast high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn

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