FDP

Offene Feldschlacht 2.0: Die FDP kämpft gegen sich selbst

Can VLMs Predict Future States? Bootstrapping World Models from Inverse Dynamics

arXiv:2506.06006v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Can unified vision-language models (VLMs) perform forward dynamics prediction (FDP), i.e., predicting the future state (in image form) given the previous observation and an action (in language form)? We find that VLMs struggle to generate physically plausible transitions between frames from instructions. Nevertheless, we identify a crucial asymmetry in multimodal grounding: fine-tuning a VLM to learn inverse dynamics prediction...

Listen up, England. The Health Secretary is going to be data controller for everyone's Single Patient Record

Health secretary James Murray has said that he will become a data controller of all National Health Service records in England shared through the government’s planned single patient record (SPR). Murray, who is formally the secretary of state for health, told the House of Commons on 1 June that GP surgeries, NHS trusts and other care providers will continue to manage and take responsibility for their own records, but added: “Where that information is then shared through the single patient...

Peter Mandelson invited UK PM to meet Palantir's Thiel

A newly released cache of communications involving Peter Mandelson show the UK former ambassador to the US invited Prime Minister Kier Starmer to meet Palantir founder Peter Thiel in July last year. More than a decade ago, Mandelson co-founded Global Counsel, a lobbying biz which included Palantir as a client. The US spy-tech company – prior to the current administration coming to power in July 2024 – won government contracts, including multi-million-pound deals with the NHS.

Wadephuls Kampf um Deutschlands Sitz im UN-Sicherheitsrat

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Für die Bundesregierung steht in New York viel auf dem Spiel. Deutschland will wieder einen der begehrten, nichtständigen Sitze im UN-Sicherheitsrat für die Jahre 2027 und 2028. Aber aus der Bewerbung ist ein knallharter Postenpoker geworden: Weil sich neben Deutschland auch Portugal und Österreich bewerben, droht kommende Woche eine Kampfabstimmung.

UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract

MPs have told the government to cut its ties with Palantir, and end the US spy-tech firm's controversial involvement in the National Health Service's Federated Data Platform. Warning against vendor lock-in across government, the House of Common science and technology committee said it was most concerned about Palantir, which had secured central roles in health and defense systems. “Palantir should not have a such a significant role in the UK public sector… it is far from the only company...

Germany sees record number of naturalisations in 2025

From 2027, local authorities expect a wave of citizenship applications from Ukrainian nationals living in Germany. The number of naturalisations in Germany has risen to a new record high, with 332,500 people acquiring German citizenship in 2025. Compared with the previous year, that marks an increase of 14 percent, according to the Federal Statistical Office.