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Human wins coding contest … but AI finishes a close second
The Polish programmer managed to finish in first place by a margin of just over 9%, with the AI placing second — ahead of all of the other human contestants.
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Polish programmer beats OpenAI's custom AI in 10-hour marathon, wins World Coding Championship — possibly the last human winner
Przemysław “Psyho” Dębiak, a Polish programmer and former OpenAI engineer, defeated the company’s own advanced AI model in the 2025 AtCoder World Tour Finals. In a grueling 10-hour coding contest, he ...
First-ever AI malware ‘LameHug’ hides in ZIP files to hack Windows PCs
A new malware named LameHug is using Alibaba's large language models (LLM), the very same tech that powers AI chatbots like ...
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OpenAI's AI crushes coding legends in 10-hour programming contest, but one human still beat the bot
During the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025 in Tokyo, a Polish programmer beat OpenAI in a 10-hour programming contest. After ...
Vibe Coding Is the Future of Programming. Here’s How Your Company Can Get on Board
Advancements in AI mean that people can create software just by describing it. Consider this your vibe coding primer.
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AI 'coach' helps language models choose between text and code to solve problems
Large language models (LLMs) excel at using textual reasoning to understand the context of a document and provide a logical ...
Google, Harvard, MIT are offering free coding courses in 2025: Here are 10 you can start now
Top institutions like Harvard, Google, MIT, and IIT Bombay are offering free beginner coding courses in 2025. Covering Python ...
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4 tips for getting started with free-threaded Python
Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting ...