George Clooney received the Golden Lion award for Lifetime Achievement during the first day of the 83rd Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2026. ^[1] The authors propose ValueGraph, a graph pre-training framework that uses automatically inferred moral-value signals as noisy auxiliary signals for contextualized user representation. ^[2] Clooney described the current US political situation as a 'caquistocracy,' defining it as a country governed by the least qualified people. ^[3] Clooney stated that he is optimistic about the future despite acknowledging difficult moments in US history, such as the assassinations of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Martin Luther King. ^[4] Clooney warned that the proliferation of AI-generated fake videos makes it difficult to discern truth, potentially causing people to distrust even real evidence. ^[5] Experiments on stance detection and Twitter bot detection show consistent gains over strong text-based, graph-based, and text-only LLM baselines. ^[6] Rather than treating inferred values as gold psychological labels, ValueGraph uses them as soft constraints for representation learning. ^[7] ValueGraph learns semantic and structural representations from post-reply graphs and further aligns users through relative value similarity using contrastive and clustering objectives. ^[8]