After several weeks of cutthroat competition, "Squid Game: The Challenge" just wrapped its sophomore season and declared a winner. The reality series, which is inspired by the scripted show “Squid ...

HackerRank is a tech company that focuses on competitive programming challenges for both consumers and businesses, where developers compete by trying to program according to provided specifications.

TikTok has long been seen as a breeding ground for dumb stunts, but some challenges are truly hazardous to one’s health. A recent survey found that the blackout challenge is the deadliest of all — ...

Three previous winners of Apple's Swift Student Challenge reveal what got them started in programming, and how they won, as the company prepares to launch the next contest. Apple has once more ...

On a quiet San Francisco street, a plain white billboard seemed to appear out of nowhere. No logo, no tagline, just five strings of numbers. Was it an ad? An art project? Or something else entirely?

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 ...

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 ...

For almost ten years now, I've grounded myself with a weekly habit: swimming 2k at least once a week. Rain or shine, I'll find a pool (or any body of water) and count the laps. A moving meditation, ...

What just happened? Elon Musk's xAI has introduced an agentic coding model aimed at delivering speed and cost efficiency for software development tasks. Called Grok Code Fast 1, the model is built on ...

In February, AI coding startup Windsurf was in talks to raise a big new round at a $2.85 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins, at double the valuation it hit six months earlier, sources told ...

That’s because AI agents are the key element behind the explosive rise of vibe coding, a term coined in February 2025 by famed AI researcher and OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy to refer to the act of ...