At a weekend hackathon in San Francisco, more than 100 coders gathered to test whether they could beat AI—and win a $12,500 cash prize.

K2 Think compares well with reasoning models from OpenAI and DeepSeek but is smaller and more efficient, say researchers based in Abu Dhabi.

In 1997, Garry Kasparov – the greatest chess player alive – sat across from IBM’s Deep Blue and lost. The world gasped: man had been dethroned by machine. But what happened next was even more ...