Some people enjoy solving problems, and then there are those who land top tech jobs by doing just that. Competitive programming (CP) is a sport for the mind, where coders have to solve problems with ...

AlphaCode – a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) system for developing computer code developed by DeepMind – can achieve average human-level performance in solving programming contests, researchers ...

Last year, San Francisco-based research lab OpenAI released Codex, an AI model for translating natural language commands into app code. The model, which powers GitHub's Copilot feature, was heralded ...

China's intense contest ecosystem meets India's grassroots coding grind in a record-setting global competition.

Baku, Azerbaijan, a city known as a cultural and historical crossroads, became the stage for a very different kind of history this September. At the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest ...

A Polish programmer has beaten an OpenAI model in a gruelling 10-hour coding competition, sparking fresh debate about where artificial intelligence fits in skilled work. Przemysaw Debiak, who goes by ...

In a contest designed to test the limits of the world’s best student programmers, an advanced version of Gemini 2.5 Deep Think did what no university team could, by cracking a problem that remained ...

In a stunning upset at the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025, Polish programmer Przemysaw Debiak, bested OpenAI's custom-built AI model in a grueling 10-hour coding competition. Debiak's victory, ...