Northwestern students wrestled with high-pressure problems at the Mid-Central Regional International Collegiate Programming Contest held in November.

About 60 students took part in the debut of a youth-led coding competition at the Arlington Career Center this weekend. “We had to communicate with many people — it was quite an effort,” said Nate ...

A Gemini model won gold at a challenging coding competition. The model correctly answered 10 out of 12 problems. The win could have major implications for AGI, says Google. In recent years, large ...

What happens when a machine almost outsmarts the world’s best coders? At the 2025 AtCoder World Finals, OpenAI’s secret internal AI model came astonishingly close to claiming victory in one of the ...

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 ...

OpenAI and Google DeepMind demonstrated that their foundation models could outperform human coders — and win — showing that large language models (LLMs) can solve complex, previously unsolved ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

A hot potato: Once again, the problem of AI being used by students to cheat on exams has reared its head. On this occasion, the University of Waterloo's Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) has ...

After a mathematics win in July, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think has now earned a gold-medal level performance in competitive coding. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is the “oldest, ...

A Polish programmer running on fumes recently accomplished what may soon become impossible: beating an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a head-to-head coding competition. The 10-hour marathon left him ...

What just happened? OpenAI and DeepMind have tested their systems in many high-level contests. DeepMind's AI has defeated world champions in Go and secured gold medals in the International ...