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Week of June 5, 2026

How Social Networks Reshaped Society and Politics

In a new Spanish-language book by Sandra González-Bailón and El País journalist Jordi Pérez Colomé, the authors examine how online technologies (from social media to AI) have transformed political power over the last three decades. They challenge the idea that algorithms alone control what we see. "Networked minorities are the real drivers of change because of their disproportionate impact on content creation and visibility," says González-Bailón.

AI Will Be Top of Mind at ICM, Math’s Biggest Conference

Thousands of mathematicians will gather in Philadelphia this July for the world’s most prestigious math conference, the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). “AI is potentially going to lead to a real renaissance in applied math, where pure mathematicians who are domain experts are now going to have the perfect conversation partner to be able to take their ideas and connect them with real-world things,” says Robert Ghrist.

LMPath: Language-Mediated Priors and Path Generation for Aerial Exploration
6/5: ICRA 2026 Workshop on AI-Driven Safe Aerial Robotics | Vijay Kumar

Sample-Efficient and Statistically Rigorous Policy Comparison Using General Robot Performance Measures
6/5: ICRA 2026 Workshop on Manipulation Robustness | Nikolai Matni

Hierarchical Concept Embedding & Pursuit for Interpretable Image Classification
6/5: CVPR 2026 | René Vidal

ImageRAGTurbo: Towards One-Step Text-to-Image Generation With Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models
6/5: CVPR 2026 | René Vidal

Towards Optimizing a Convex Cover of Collision-Free Space for Trajectory Generation
6/4: ICRA 2026 | Vijay Kumar

Occupancy-Aware Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Valet Parking in Uncertain Dynamic Environments
6/4: ICRA 2026 | Nikolai Matni

Venkat Siva (Compfly): Governing Agents at the Execution Boundary
6/4: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

Measuring Skill, Luck, and Competitive Balance in Sports
6/3: Wharton Moneyball | Shane Jensen

RT-GuIDE: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting for Information-Driven Exploration
6/3: ICRA 2026 | Vijay Kumar

Real-Time Glass Detection and Reprojection Using Sensor Fusion Onboard Aerial Robots
6/3: ICRA 2026 | Vijay Kumar

Air-Ground Collaboration for Language-Specified Missions in Unknown Environments (I)
6/3: ICRA 2026 | Vijay Kumar

SymSkill: Symbol and Skill Co-Invention for Data-Efficient and Reactive Long-Horizon Manipulation
6/3: ICRA 2026 Best Paper Award on Planning and Control and ICRA 2026 Best Conference Paper Award | Vijay Kumar

LPAC: Learnable Perception-Action-Communication Loops With Applications to Coverage Control
6/3: ICRA 2026 | Alejandro Ribeiro and Vijay Kumar

Scalable Multi Agent Diffusion Policies for Coverage Control
6/2: ICRA 2026 | Alejandro Ribeiro

Welcome to the Cognition Curve
6/1: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

REBAR: Reference Ethical Benchmark for Autonomy Readiness
6/1: 2nd ICRA 2026 Workshop on Robot Ethics | Vijay Kumar

Bioethics and the Rules Based International Order
6/1: The University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics | Jonathan Moreno

Stateful Online Monitoring Catches Distributed Agent Attacks
5/29: arXiv | Hamed Hassani

STOC 30-Year Test of Time Award
5/29: ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory | Michael Kearns

Unlearning in Diffusion Models: A Unified Framework With KL Divergence and Likelihood Constraints
5/29: arXiv | Alejandro Ribeiro

Dynamic Competition in American Law
5/29: The University of Hong Kong | Christopher Yoo

Five Sober Prescriptions for Homeowners Insurance
5/28: The 32nd Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law & Social Policy | Tom Baker

AI and the Market Dilution Theory of Fair Use
5/28: The University of Hong Kong | Christopher Yoo

Alabama Map Blocked & Deregulatory Fail
5/27: Bloomberg Law Podcast | Cary Coglianese

Learning to Target With Network Interference
5/27: arXiv | Hamsa Bastani

Constraints on Dynamical Dark Energy From Multiple Probes in the Full Dark Energy Survey
5/26: arXiv | Bhuvnesh Jain

AI Assists Adversarial Collaboration in Debate on Minority Salience
5/26: PNAS | Lyle Ungar

AI&S (AI & Society) Forum 2026: Living With AI
5/26: The University of Hong Kong | Christopher Yoo

Tobacco Withdrawal System Recovery Time Assessed During Smoking Satiety Predicts Smoking Behavior Change Among Individuals Who Smoke Cigarettes Daily
5/25: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors | Dani Bassett and Emily Falk

Certified Robustness From Approximate Gaussian Mixture Structures in Pretrained Latent Spaces
5/25: arXiv | René Vidal

CurveRL: Principled Distribution-Aware Context Reweighting for LLM Reasoning
5/23: arXiv | Weijie Su

El Vuelco: Historia personal y política de cómo las redes han cambiado el mundo para siempre
5/20: Deusto | Sandra González-Bailón

Decentralized Learning Strategies for Estimation Error Minimization With Graph Neural Networks
5/8: ICASSP 2026 | Alejandro Ribeiro and Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Partitioning Large-Scale Virtual Environments Across Servers
5/7: United States Patent | Andreas Haeberlen

AL-CoLe: Augmented Lagrangian for Constrained Learning
5/7: ICASSP 2026 | Alejandro Ribeiro

Sampling and Uniqueness Sets in Graphon Signal Processing
5/7: ICASSP 2026 | Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph Neural Networks in Large Scale Wireless Communication Networks: Scalability Across Random Geometric Graphs
5/6: ICASSP 2026 | Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph Signal Generative Diffusion Models
5/6: ICASSP 2026 | Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti and Alejandro Ribeiro

Convolutional Filtering With RKHS Algebras
5/5: ICASSP 2026 | Alejandro Ribeiro

Unrolled Graph Neural Networks for Constrained Optimization
5/5: ICASSP 2026 | Alejandro Ribeiro

The Business of Litigation Finance
4/17: NYU Law Review Symposium: Charting the Future of Litigation Finance | Tom Baker

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