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Creating a glass box: How NetSuite is engineering trust into AI
Presented by Oracle NetSuite When any company tells you it is their biggest product release in almost three decades, it’s worth listening. When the person saying it founded the world’s first cloud computing company, it’s time to take note. At SuiteWorld 2025, Evan Goldberg, founder and EVP of Oracle... Read more
French tennis player Quentin Folliot handed 20-year ban for match-fixing scheme
A French tennis player, Quentin Folliot, has been hit with a 20-year suspension from the game. Folliot was found to be a “central figure” in a match-fixing scheme that has seen five others suspended as well. The news comes from the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA), which has been... Read more
The Geminids Peak Tonight: How to Catch the Last Big Meteor Shower of the Year
December is a busy month for the night skies, what with the winter solstice and the occasional aurora borealis. It also hosts one of the best meteor showers of the year: the Geminids. This often underrated meteor shower does not get the attention the Perseids meteor shower gets, but it often rains down... Read more
Nous Research just released Nomos 1, an open-source AI that ranks second on the notoriously brutal Putnam math exam
Nous Research, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, released on Tuesday an open-source mathematical reasoning system called Nomos 1 that achieved near-elite human performance on this year's William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, one of the most prestigious and notoriously difficult undergraduate math contests in the world. The Putnam is... Read more
Australian ACMA blocks 12 illegal gambling websites
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has requested that internet service providers in the country block more illegal online gambling sites. A total of 12 sites have been requested to be blocked, as the ACMA says investigations found these services to be operating in breach of the Interactive... Read more
Speed Across the Galaxy Next Year in Star Wars: Galactic Racer
After a surprise reveal of Star Wars: The Fate of the Old Republic to start The Game Awards on Thursday, another Star Wars game made its debut. But this one has no Jedi, no lightsabers, just people racing through treacherous terrain. Galactic Racer is developed by Fuse Games, a... Read more
Trump Signs Executive Order That Threatens to Punish States for Passing AI Laws
President Donald Trump signed a highly anticipated executive order on Thursday that sets in motion a plan to establish a national regulatory framework for artificial intelligence while undercutting states’ abilities to enact their own rules. The order, titled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” creates an AI... Read more
GPT-5.2 first impressions: a powerful update, especially for business tasks and workflows
OpenAI has officially released GPT-5.2, and the reactions from early testers — among whom OpenAI seeded the model several days prior to public release, in some cases weeks ago — paints a two toned picture: it is a monumental leap forward for deep, autonomous reasoning and coding, yet potentially... Read more
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert
In attempting to keep up with (or ahead of) the competition, model releases proceed at a steady clip: GPT-5.2 represents OpenAI’s third major model release since August. GPT-5 launched that month with a new routing system that toggles between instant-response and simulated reasoning modes, though users complained about responses... Read more
Honolulu police shut down illegal gambling operation, seizing cash and machines
The Honolulu Police Department has taken to social media to share they have shut down an illegal gambling operation on Kawaiaha’o Street in Honolulu, Hawaii. They say officers executed a search warrant on what they describe to be an ‘illegal gambling establishment’ on Tuesday (December 9), which saw two... Read more