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 ...

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 ...

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, ...