In a human vs AI coding competition, Polish coder Przemysław Dębiak defeated a state-of-the-art AI system by five points from OpenAI at Japan's second city's top AtCoder World Tour Finals. The 10-hour ...

While it might seem like AI models are rapidly overtaking the endeavours of squishy human beings, it appears some hope of staying ahead of our AI overlords may remain. And in this case, that hope is ...

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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says the key to building a world-class engineering team isn't traditional interviews, it's winning a coding contest. In Tuesday’s interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, Durov ...

Elon Musk has proposed a public coding contest between xAI’s Grok 5 and former OpenAI research lead Andrej Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 showdown between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue.

Alongside its Gemini generative AI model, Google this morning took the wraps off of AlphaCode 2, an improved version of the code-generating AlphaCode introduced by Google's DeepMind lab roughly a year ...

Fancy a job at the messaging service Telegram? You might want to look out for the next coding competition the company organizes to recruit engineers. Pavel Durov, the cofounder and CEO of Telegram, ...

Last fall, teams of college students around the globe were busy competing in regional coding contests with the ultimate goal of being named the best student programming team in the world. Organized by ...

Pavel Durov is the cofounder and CEO of Telegram, a messaging service. Durov said he relies on coding contests instead of interviews to screen for potential hires. "It's in line with my overall ...

Programmers from China and Russia have dominated an international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components. Whether the outcome of this competition is another sign ...