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Q-Policy: Quantum-Enhanced Policy Evaluation for Scalable Reinforcement Learning
We propose Q-Policy, a hybrid quantum-classical reinforcement learning (RL) framework that mathematically accelerates policy evaluation and optimization by exploiting quantum computing primitives. Q-Policy encodes value functions in quantum superposition, enabling simultaneous evaluation of multiple state-action pairs via amplitude encoding and quantum parallelism. We introduce a quantum-enhanced policy iteration algorithm with provable polynomial reductions in sample complexity for the evaluat…

Redaktionspause https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9944

Continuous Policy and Value Iteration for Stochastic Control Problems and Its Convergence
Qi Feng, Gu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08121 https://…

Continuous Policy and Value Iteration for Stochastic Control Problems and Its Convergence
We introduce a continuous policy-value iteration algorithm where the approximations of the value function of a stochastic control problem and the optimal control are simultaneously updated through Langevin-type dynamics. This framework applies to both the entropy-regularized relaxed control problems and the classical control problems, with infinite horizon. We establish policy improvement and demonstrate convergence to the optimal control under the monotonicity condition of the Hamiltonian. By …

Influential scientists shape knowledge flows between science and IGO policy
Kimitaka Asatani, Yurie Iwata, Yuta Tomokiyo, Basil Mahfouz, Masaru Yarime, Ichiro Sakata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06753

Influential scientists shape knowledge flows between science and IGO policy
Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) increasingly rely on scientific evidence, yet the pathways through which scientific research enters policy remain opaque. By linking 230,737 scientific papers cited in IGO policy documents (2015-2023) to their authors and collaboration networks, we identify a small group of policy-influential scientists (PI-Sci) who dominate this knowledge flow. These scientists form tightly interconnected, internationally spanning co-authorship networks and achieve policy…

The big, beautiful bill is bad news for student loans (Abdallah Fayyad/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/policy/415793/big-beautiful-bill-student-loans-pell-grants
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p52#a250609p52

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Characterization of Efficient Influence Function for Off-Policy Evaluation Under Optimal Policies
Off-policy evaluation (OPE) provides a powerful framework for estimating the value of a counterfactual policy using observational data, without the need for additional experimentation. Despite recent progress in robust and efficient OPE across various settings, rigorous efficiency analysis of OPE under an estimated optimal policy remains limited. In this paper, we establish a concise characterization of the efficient influence function (EIF) for the value function under optimal policy within ca…

FreqPolicy: Efficient Flow-based Visuomotor Policy via Frequency Consistency
Yifei Su, Ning Liu, Dong Chen, Zhen Zhao, Kun Wu, Meng Li, Zhiyuan Xu, Zhengping Che, Jian Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08822

FreqPolicy: Efficient Flow-based Visuomotor Policy via Frequency Consistency
Generative modeling-based visuomotor policies have been widely adopted in robotic manipulation attributed to their ability to model multimodal action distributions. However, the high inference cost of multi-step sampling limits their applicability in real-time robotic systems. To address this issue, existing approaches accelerate the sampling process in generative modeling-based visuomotor policies by adapting acceleration techniques originally developed for image generation. Despite this progr…

Justin Sun-linked BiT Global dismisses with prejudice its lawsuit against Coinbase for delisting wBTC; the delisting followed Coinbase launching rival cbBTC (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/07…

Coinbase, BiT Global End Legal Fight Over WBTC Delisting
BiT Global agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against Coinbase, with each party covering its own legal expenses.

The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year
as Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce and increases economic uncertainty,
the World Bank said on Tuesday in a report that underscores the toll of America’s trade war.
Despite the weakening outlook, the global economy is not expected to fall into a recession, the World Bank said.
However, the trade tension is setting the stage for the weakest decade of growth since the 1960s.
Economic dev…

World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War
Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.

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#USpol

Lurie is cutting transit service and replacing it with Waymo. letting rich people clog up the street with robotaxis that stall all the time while regular people in buses get stuck behind is terrible policy and undoes the whole point of car-free Market. absolutely catastrophic
https://www.

Cross-Border Data Flows in Africa: Examining Policy Approaches and Pathways to Regulatory Interoperability
https://fpf.org/blog/cross-border-data-flows-in-africa-examining-policy-approaches-and-pathways…

Upcoming GÉANT infoshare 🚀
Earth Observations Support Through NRENs - Part 1
Explore the multi-national policy context which supports earth observation, the complimentary RREN research engagement approaches employed, and discover the Group on Earth Observations (GEO).
👥 Hosted by Daniela Brauner, Chris Atherton and Hendrik Ike (GÉANT), with presentations from Paola De Salvo (GEO Secretariat), Yousef Torman (ASREN), and Mark Urban (RedCLARA).
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Infoshare Series on Earth Observations Support Through NRENs - Part 1
Earth observation has a direct impact on societal ambitions to reduce the effects of climate change, monitor the achievement of the UN sustainable development goals, and for its use in disaster and emergency response.  As a wide-ranging topic area, Earth observation is reliant upon ever increasing volumes of data for achieving the latest scientific discoveries.  It is because of the societal impact, and large-scale data transit to universities and national institutions which makes this an...

#UsPol #NIH #Academia
NIH scientists pub…

NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” Monday’s letter from NIH researchers and staffers says the Republican Trump administration’s policies waste public resources and harm people’s health. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his confirmation hearings pledged openness to views that might conflict with his, saying dissent is the “essenc…

Mitbekommen? Neben X und #Meta auch #Youtube:
YouTube passt seine #Moderation an und lässt künftig mehr Videos online, auch wenn sie teils gegen Richtlinien verstoßen.
Inhalte mit möglichem …

YouTube has loosened its content moderation policies
YouTube has loosened its content moderation policies, and has told reviewers not to remove potentially policy-violating videos if they’re in the public interest, according to a report from The New York Times.

I see that Mike Huckabee is off of his meds again.
He kinda forgot the lost his presidential bid and is, now, pretending that he is the font of US foreign policy.
"US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state"
https://www.

Piraterie in der Ostsee (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10008

Watch live: NIH director testifies in Senate amid deep cuts to research (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5341647-nih-director-testifies-senate-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p68#a250610p68

Trump’s war against DEI isn’t going so well in Virginia
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5337479-trump-dei-policy-fairfax-schools/

Reusing Trajectories in Policy Gradients Enables Fast Convergence
Alessandro Montenegro, Federico Mansutti, Marco Mussi, Matteo Papini, Alberto Maria Metelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06178

Reusing Trajectories in Policy Gradients Enables Fast Convergence
Policy gradient (PG) methods are a class of effective reinforcement learning algorithms, particularly when dealing with continuous control problems. These methods learn the parameters of parametric policies via stochastic gradient ascent, typically using on-policy trajectory data to estimate the policy gradient. However, such reliance on fresh data makes them sample-inefficient. Indeed, vanilla PG methods require $O(ε^{-2})$ trajectories to reach an $ε$-approximate stationary point. A common …

Economic and Policy Uncertainties and Firm Value: The Case of Consumer Durable Goods
Bahram Adrangi, Saman Hatamerad, Madhuparna Kolay, Kambiz Raffiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07476

Economic and Policy Uncertainties and Firm Value: The Case of Consumer Durable Goods
The objective of this study is to analyze the response of firm value, represented by the Tobin's Q (Q) for a group of twelve U.S. durable goods producers to uncertainties in the US Economy. The results, based on an estimated panel quantile regressions (PQR) and panel vector autoregressive MIDAS model (PVM), show that Q for these firms reacts negatively to the positive shocks to the current ratio, and debt-to-asset ratio and positively to operating income after depreciation and the quick ratio i…

Altman's iris-scanning orbs may have us in a privacy tizzy, but let's not forget that Zuck is hoping to recoup the $60B he lost on VR by gathering data in Meta's Ray-Bans—for AI, yes, but probably also to personalize ads you won't be able to look away from https://www.

“Legitimate interests is now our legal basis for using your information to improve Meta Products.”
Alright, Zuck. 😂
Here’s what's included:
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/?section_id=18.4-LegitimateInterestsWeRely

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Reinforcing Video Reasoning with Focused Thinking
Recent advancements in reinforcement learning, particularly through Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), have significantly improved multimodal large language models for complex reasoning tasks. However, two critical limitations persist: 1) they often produce unfocused, verbose reasoning chains that obscure salient spatiotemporal cues and 2) binary rewarding fails to account for partially correct answers, resulting in high reward variance and inefficient learning. In this paper, we propos…

TGRPO :Fine-tuning Vision-Language-Action Model via Trajectory-wise Group Relative Policy Optimization
Zengjue Chen, Runliang Niu, He Kong, Qi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08440

TGRPO :Fine-tuning Vision-Language-Action Model via Trajectory-wise Group Relative Policy Optimization
Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities across diverse scenes, tasks, and robotic platforms when pretrained at large-scale datasets. However, these models still require task-specific fine-tuning in novel environments, a process that relies almost exclusively on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) using static trajectory datasets. Such approaches neither allow robot to interact with environment nor do they leverage feedback from live ex…

"The British people want peace. The government’s continued support for Israel must be made untenable. The Gaza Inquiry Bill, and the “red line” Palestine solidarity campaigners drew around Parliament yesterday, help us to do that."
Corbyn’s Gaza Inquiry Bill reflects public opinion – Starmer’s pro-war policy does not | Morning Star

„Der automatisierte Seeluftkrieg“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10009

Social Security Chief Says Musk's DOGE Figures Heavily in Agency's Plans (Anne Tergesen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/social-security-chief-says-musks-doge-figures-heavily-in-agencys-plans-45cc0f35
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p72#a250609p72

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Towards Analyzing and Understanding the Limitations of VAPO: A Theoretical Perspective
Reinforcement learning (RL) enhances large language models (LLMs) in complex, long-chain-of-thought (long-CoT) reasoning. The advanced VAPO framework, despite sophisticated mechanisms like Decoupled GAE, theoretically faces fundamental limitations in comprehensively modeling and leveraging deep, long-term value for fine-grained, step-by-step policy guidance in extended reasoning chains. We argue these limitations stem from inherent difficulties in credit assignment, value function representatio…

I love it when the world catches up with me XD (OK, in this case it's the UK rather than the world.)
Surely the way to stop kids looking at things that aren't appropriate for children on the internet isn't to take those things off the internet - pretty much a decade-long gov policy under both parties, though the new laws only just came into effect. It's to stop kids having unsupervised access to the open internet. Surely the only sane solution is clear... prosecute pa…

I really feel for JLCPCB. With all the visible strike-throughs on their tariff FAQ, you can see they're *trying* to keep track of the febrile toddler's changes, but seem to have just given up back mid-May https://jlcpcb.com/help/article/us-tariff-policy-faq

Trump Planning to Extend TikTok Deadline—Again
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tiktok-ban-extension-f242c36a?st=KTCYtf&reflink=article_copyURL_share

President Trump is the first to ask federal job applicants to describe their allegiance to administration policy in an essay
or to mandate training for senior government officials on White House executive orders, experts said.
Senior agency officials, who are often political appointees, are to be directly involved in the hiring process, which has not previously been the case.
The guidelines, released last month, arrived at a time when the Trump administration was beginning …

In Trump’s ‘Patriotic’ Hiring Plan, Experts See a Politicized Federal Work Force
Political appointments inherently take into consideration loyalty to the president or the party. But expanding those types of questions to the career civil service is a significant departure.

Lurie is cutting transit service and replacing it with Waymo. letting rich people clog up the street with robotaxis that stall all the time while regular people in buses get stuck behind is terrible policy and undoes the whole point of car-free Market. absolutely catastrophic
https://www.

That a judge makes a comment like this so early in the process gives me hope that there will be a favorable outcome for writers whose work was pirated. Like me.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/jud…

Judge on Meta’s AI training: “I just don’t understand how that can be fair use”
Judge downplayed Meta’s “messed up” torrenting in lawsuit over AI training.

The benefits don't stop at bringing a five year old to the Oval Office …
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/trump-is-forcing-states-to-funnel-grant-money-to-starlink-senate-democrats-say/

Getty's copyright lawsuit against Stability AI begins at London's High Court, accusing it of unlawfully scraping millions of images; Stability denies the claims (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

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Finding Interest Needle in Popularity Haystack: Improving Retrieval by Modeling Item Exposure
Recommender systems operate in closed feedback loops, where user interactions reinforce popularity bias, leading to over-recommendation of already popular items while under-exposing niche or novel content. Existing bias mitigation methods, such as Inverse Propensity Scoring (IPS) and Off-Policy Correction (OPC), primarily operate at the ranking stage or during training, lacking explicit real-time control over exposure dynamics. In this work, we introduce an exposure-aware retrieval scoring appr…

Much of what is going on under the present FFOTUS/maga-klan/white-christian-nationalist reign reminds me of a time in Florence, Italy in the late 1400s.
A nut named Girolamo Savonarola tried to impose a very regressive Christian policy onto Florence.
The people of Florence didn't like it and, in the end, gave Savonarola a rather hot time.

Girolamo Savonarola - Wikipedia

Minnesota state lawmaker claims on House floor she is in the US illegally (Asher Notheis/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3435894/minnesota-kaohly-vang-her-claims-illegal-immigrant/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p140#a250609p140

The UK's FCA plans to lift its ban on offering crypto exchange traded notes to retail investors "to support UK growth and competitiveness" (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/06/uk…

Trump cyber executive order drops Biden-era provisions https://therecord.media/trump-cybersecurity-executive-order-june-2025

Identifiability in epidemic models with prior immunity and under-reporting
Fanny Bergstr\"om, Martina Favero, Tom Britton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07825

Identifiability in epidemic models with prior immunity and under-reporting
Identifiability is the property in mathematical modelling that determines if model parameters can be uniquely estimated from data. For infectious disease models, failure to ensure identifiability can lead to misleading parameter estimates and unreliable policy recommendations. We examine the identifiability of a modified SIR model that accounts for under-reporting and pre-existing immunity in the population. We provide a mathematical proof of the unidentifiability of jointly estimating three pa…

Enterprise value, economic and policy uncertainties: the case of US air carriers
Bahram Adrangi, Arjun Chatrath, Madhuparna Kolay, Kambiz Raffiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07766 …

Enterprise value, economic and policy uncertainties: the case of US air carriers
The enterprise value (EV) is a crucial metric in company valuation as it encompasses not only equity but also assets and liabilities, offering a comprehensive measure of total value, especially for companies with diverse capital structures. The relationship between economic uncertainty and firm value is rooted in economic theory, with early studies dating back to Sandmo's work in 1971 and further elaborated upon by John Kenneth Galbraith in 1977. Subsequent significant events have underscored t…

Policy Optimization for Continuous-time Linear-Quadratic Graphon Mean Field Games
Philipp Plank, Yufei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05894 https://

Policy Optimization for Continuous-time Linear-Quadratic Graphon Mean Field Games
Multi-agent reinforcement learning, despite its popularity and empirical success, faces significant scalability challenges in large-population dynamic games. Graphon mean field games (GMFGs) offer a principled framework for approximating such games while capturing heterogeneity among players. In this paper, we propose and analyze a policy optimization framework for continuous-time, finite-horizon linear-quadratic GMFGs. Exploiting the structural properties of GMFGs, we design an efficient polic…

I really feel for JLCPCB. With all the visible strike-throughs on their tariff FAQ, you can see they're *trying* to keep track of the febrile toddler's changes, but seem to have just given up back mid-May https://jlcpcb.com/help/article/us-tariff-policy-faq

Hegseth cites 2020 Minnesota riots as reason for sending National Guard into LA (Mike Brest/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3436556/hegseth-cites-2020-minnesota-riots-reason-national-guard-los-angeles/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p94#a250610p94

On Monday, scores of scientists at the National Institutes of Health sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the "Bethesda Declaration"
challenging “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.”
It says: “We dissent.”
In a capital where insiders often insist on anonymity to say such things publicly,
92 NIH researchers, program directors, branch chiefs and scientific r…

NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” Monday’s letter from NIH researchers and staffers says the Republican Trump administration’s policies waste public resources and harm people’s health. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his confirmation hearings pledged openness to views that might conflict with his, saying dissent is the “essenc…

Regret-Optimal Q-Learning with Low Cost for Single-Agent and Federated Reinforcement Learning
Haochen Zhang, Zhong Zheng, Lingzhou Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04626

Regret-Optimal Q-Learning with Low Cost for Single-Agent and Federated Reinforcement Learning
Motivated by real-world settings where data collection and policy deployment -- whether for a single agent or across multiple agents -- are costly, we study the problem of on-policy single-agent reinforcement learning (RL) and federated RL (FRL) with a focus on minimizing burn-in costs (the sample sizes needed to reach near-optimal regret) and policy switching or communication costs. In parallel finite-horizon episodic Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with $S$ states and $A$ actions, existing m…

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Adaptive Traffic Signal Control based on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. Case Study on a simulated real-world corridor
Previous studies that have formulated multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for adaptive traffic signal control have primarily used value-based RL methods. However, recent literature has shown that policy-based methods may perform better in partially observable environments. Additionally, RL methods remain largely untested for real-world normally signal timing plans because of the simplifying assumptions common in the literature. The current study attempts to address these gaps and…

🎲 Crypto Casino Founder Richard Kim Arrested After Gambling Away Investor Funds
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/04/17/crypto-casino-founder-richard-kim-arrested-after-gambling-away-investor-funds

Crypto Casino Founder Richard Kim Arrested After Gambling Away Investor Funds
Former Galaxy, Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan executive Richard Kim faces securities and wire fraud charges after allegedly gambling away "nearly all" of his investors' funds.

I just took a look at the proposed text for these "trump accounts".
The language begins at page 741 in the linked-to .pdf file, below.
The language is rather vague. For example, it does not indicate the base date for measuring the age of the "beneficiary". Is it the conception date or the live-birth date?
And the text is filled with terribly vague phrases like "Rules similar to the rules of section" - There are big devils lurking in that hor…

Trump to promote $1,000 ‘Trump Accounts’ for newborns at White House event
President Donald Trump is set to host a roundtable at the White House on Monday to promote a key feature of the sweeping Republican domestic policy bill – a provision that would provide every American newborn with a $1,000 investment account, a White House official told CNN.

Ted Cruz bill: States that regulate AI will be cut out of $42B broadband fund - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/ted-cruz-bill-states-that-regulate-ai-will-be-cut-out-of-42b-broadband-fund/

Republican lawmakers back Trump administration in the heat of Los Angeles riots (Ally Goelz/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3435335/republican-lawmakers-support-trump-administration-los-angeles-riots/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p113#a250609p113

How to craft a deep reinforcement learning policy for wind farm flow control
Elie Kadoche, Pascal Bianchi, Florence Carton, Philippe Ciblat, Damien Ernst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06204

How to craft a deep reinforcement learning policy for wind farm flow control
Within wind farms, wake effects between turbines can significantly reduce overall energy production. Wind farm flow control encompasses methods designed to mitigate these effects through coordinated turbine control. Wake steering, for example, consists in intentionally misaligning certain turbines with the wind to optimize airflow and increase power output. However, designing a robust wake steering controller remains challenging, and existing machine learning approaches are limited to quasi-sta…

„Krieg geht alle an“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9942

FPF Launches Major Initiative to Study Economic and Policy Implications of AgeTech
https://fpf.org/press-releases/fpf-launches-major-initiative-to-study-economic-and-policy-implications-of-agetech/

Filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 court order requiring it to preserve all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, arguing it poses a risk to users' privacy (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
OpenAI defends privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users.

I nearly gave my credit card to a legit-looking Maine business, until I noticed their “privacy policy” linked to Wikipedia. That’s not laziness but AI-generated HTML vibecoded into place without review. And a lot more can go wrong than a missing legal page.
https://www.

ISP Frontier Communications settles a lawsuit from record labels that demanded broadband users accused of piracy be dropped; SCOTUS may hear Cox's similar case (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

ISP settles with record labels that demanded mass termination of Internet users
One piracy case is over, but the biggest one could be decided by Supreme Court.

Befreiung ohne Befreier (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9965

Fast Estimation of Globally Optimal Independent Contact Regions for Robust Grasping and Manipulation
Jonathan P. King, Harnoor Ahluwalia, Michael Zhang, Nancy S. Pollard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08856

Fast Estimation of Globally Optimal Independent Contact Regions for Robust Grasping and Manipulation
This work presents a fast anytime algorithm for computing globally optimal independent contact regions (ICRs). ICRs are regions such that one contact within each region enables a valid grasp. Locations of ICRs can provide guidance for grasp and manipulation planning, learning, and policy transfer. However, ICRs for modern applications have been little explored, in part due to the expense of computing them, as they have a search space exponential in the number of contacts. We present a divide an…

Republican supporters of Ukraine put pressure on Trump after missile strikes | US foreign policy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/14/republicans-trump-ukraine

Getty's copyright lawsuit against Stability AI begins at London's High Court, accusing it of unlawfully scraping millions of images; Stability denies the claims (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Trump walked out to a thunderous standing ovation as Kid Rock’s “American Bad Ass” boomed from the sound system.
He watched martial artists slug it out behind a chain-link fence.
A female champion let the US president try on her gold belt.
It was a night of machismo, spectacle and violence.
Shortly before he joined an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday night,
Trump had signed an order deploying 2,000 national guard troop…

Democrats Hate Trump's Policy Bill, but Love Some of Its Tax Cuts (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/us/politics/democrats-trump-tax-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p62#a250609p62

Sources: Trump plans to extend TikTok's June 19 sale deadline; ByteDance told the White House China wouldn't approve a deal until there are trade negotiations (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trum…

What's a Medicaid cut? Senate GOP tiptoes around $800B question (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5335867-senate-gop-medicaid-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p23#a250609p23

DOGE used flawed AI tool to “munch” Veterans Affairs contracts - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/doge-used-flawed-ai-tool-to-munch-veterans-affairs-contracts/

Befreiung ohne Befreier https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9964

Republicans urge Trump to extinguish Los Angeles protests ASAP: 'Put down the mob' (Brady Knox/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3434939/republicans-urge-trump-crush-los-angeles-protests-asap/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p53#a250608p53

China's Hainan province tests letting some corporate users bypass the Great Firewall and access the global internet, as it seeks to become a free-trade port (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy…

China will drop the Great Firewall for some users, but only in southern Hainan
Employees of companies operating in the island province can apply for the ‘Global Connect’ scheme, but some content will remain restricted.

Das neokoloniale Modell der EU https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9940

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ADEPT: Adaptive Diffusion Environment for Policy Transfer Sim-to-Real
Model-free reinforcement learning has emerged as a powerful method for developing robust robot control policies capable of navigating through complex and unstructured environments. The effectiveness of these methods hinges on two essential elements: (1) the use of massively parallel physics simulations to expedite policy training, and (2) an environment generator tasked with crafting sufficiently challenging yet attainable environments to facilitate continuous policy improvement. Existing metho…

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On-Policy RL with Optimal Reward Baseline
Reinforcement learning algorithms are fundamental to align large language models with human preferences and to enhance their reasoning capabilities. However, current reinforcement learning algorithms often suffer from training instability due to loose on-policy constraints and computational inefficiency due to auxiliary models. In this work, we propose On-Policy RL with Optimal reward baseline (OPO), a novel and simplified reinforcement learning algorithm designed to address these challenges. O…

Vietnam ends two-child policy as birth rate hits record low | The Straits Times
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnam-ends-two-child-policy-to-stem-falling-birth-rates

The C.B.O. estimate is all but certain to inflame debate within the G.O.P. about the spending bill.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the broad Republican bill to cut taxes and slash some federal programs
👉would add $2.4 trillion to the already soaring national debt over the next decade,
in an analysis that was all but certain to inflame concerns that President Trump’s domestic agenda would lead to excessive government borrowing.
The C.B.O…

Trump’s Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says
The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is all but certain to inflame an already intense debate inside the G.O.P. about the fiscal consequences of its bill to enact President Trump’s agenda.

ISP Frontier Communications settles a lawsuit from record labels that demanded broadband users accused of piracy be dropped; SCOTUS may hear Cox's similar case (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

ISP settles with record labels that demanded mass termination of Internet users
One piracy case is over, but the biggest one could be decided by Supreme Court.

AMPED: Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification
Geonwoo Cho, Jaemoon Lee, Jaegyun Im, Subi Lee, Jihwan Lee, Sundong Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05980

AMPED: Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification
Skill-based reinforcement learning (SBRL) enables rapid adaptation in environments with sparse rewards by pretraining a skill-conditioned policy. Effective skill learning requires jointly maximizing both exploration and skill diversity. However, existing methods often face challenges in simultaneously optimizing for these two conflicting objectives. In this work, we propose a new method, Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification (AMPED), which expli…

Musk claims Trump named in Jeffrey Epstein files
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5335453-elon-musk-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files/

Trump stokes fear, confusion with pulled emergency abortion guidance (Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5337924-abortion-guidance-confusion-doctors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p44#a250607p44

Verbündete Rivalen https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9962

Microsoft hires ex-Biden administration lawyer Lisa Monaco as president of global affairs and promotes ex-Trump official C.J. Mahoney to general counsel (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/microsoft-policy-promotes-trump-official…

Exclusive: Microsoft promotes former Trump official, hires ex-Biden lawyer
C.J. Mahoney and Lisa Monaco join the company's policy and legal leadership.

Deepening divisions are threatening the fate of the sprawling bill,
which includes large tax cuts;
reductions to Medicaid, food assistance and clean energy programs;
and additional money for border security and the military.
They erupted online on Tuesday after Trump lashed out at an outspoken Republican opponent of the legislation
-- and as Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who recently left his governmental role leading the Department of Government Efficiency, …

Trump Pressures Divided G.O.P. to Back Policy Bill
The president is pressing Republicans in the Senate to unite quickly behind sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, but the measure’s opponents have a powerful new ally: Elon Musk.

Democrats fail to subpoena Musk for Trump-era role
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5334582-republicans-block-musk-testimony-over-trump/

Von Widersprüchen gehemmt https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9938

With U.S. vaccine policy in flux, four members of CDC advisory panel receive termination notices (Helen Branswell/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/08/cdc-vaccine-advisory-panel-acip-four-members-notified-of-termination/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p78#a250608p78

Dr. Oz on Medicaid cuts: People should ‘prove that they matter’
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5334508-dr-oz-medicaid-cuts-work-requirements/

Noem ending TSA Quiet Skies traveler surveillance program
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5335538-noem-ending-tsa-quiet-skies-traveler-surveillance-program/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Republican Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-policy-bill-deficit-estimate.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p121#a250604p121

Das größte Aufrüstungsprogramm https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10005

Thailand files charges against, and orders the blocking of crypto exchanges Bybit, CoinEx, OKX, 1000X, and XT.com from June 28 for operating without a license (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/30

Thailand Will Block Access to OKX, Bybit, 1000X and XT.com From June 28, Citing Lack of License
OKX, Bybit, 1000x, and XT are among the exchanges that will be blocked in Thailand by the end of June.

There are only two commissioners left at the FCC (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/681638/fcc-quorum-starks-simington-departure-brendan-carr
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p8#a250607p8

Die Rüstungsregierung im Amt https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9961

Kash Patel claims 'breakthrough' in Fauci COVID origins probe (Elizabeth Crisp/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5337460-fauci-fbi-investigation-breakthrough-patel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p152#a250606p152

Nearly 100 House Democrats urge RFK Jr. to restore millions in family planning grants (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5337240-lawmakers-robert-f-kennedy-jr-restoration-family-planning-grants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p107#a250606p107

GOP Lawmakers Ditch Elon Musk and Embrace President Trump (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/republican-elon-musk-trump-feud-reactions-4191b2de
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p1#a250606p1

Dr. Oz on Medicaid cuts: People should 'prove that they matter' (Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5334508-dr-oz-medicaid-cuts-work-requirements/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p71#a250605p71

Trump Bans Citizens of 12 Countries From Traveling to U.S. (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-travel-ban-announced-12-countries-ba0b6b65
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p73#a250605p73

Trump Bans Citizens of 12 Countries From Traveling to U.S. (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-bans-citizens-of-12-countries-from-traveling-to-u-s-ba0b6b65?st=pEjNp3&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p66#a250605p66