What if you had one day to build an AI agent that actually takes actions — and the best one could win an NVIDIA DGX Spark worth $5,000? That’s the challenge behind the Agent Harness Hackathon, an in-person event happening in San Francisco on August 29, 2026. This isn’t about building another chatbot. Participants have … Read more
What if one clean pull request could win you an Apple Mac mini? That’s the challenge behind ROAST MY PR CTF, an in-person coding event happening at GitHub HQ in San Francisco on August 26, 2026. Instead of asking developers to build an entire AI application in a few hours, this event focuses on something … Read more
What if one Saturday of building an AI project could end with you taking home an NVIDIA DGX Spark AI supercomputer worth $5,000? That’s the main prize at the Zero Downtime Hackathon, an in-person AI event happening in San Francisco on August 22, 2026. The challenge is built around a problem that becomes increasingly important … Read more
A knee MRI can hide an ACL tear, cartilage damage, a fracture, or several other problems in the same scan. Now Kaggle is turning that diagnostic challenge into a $77,000 machine learning competition. The new RSNA Knee Abnormality Detection challenge asks participants to detect 12 clinically important abnormalities using both MRI images and radiology reports. … Read more
What if your AI agent could remember a mistake from last week, continue an unfinished task today, and use that history to make a better decision tomorrow? That idea could win $5,000 in the CockroachDB AWS Hackathon. With $8,750 in total cash prizes, the challenge focuses on one of the harder problems in agentic AI: … Read more
What if winning an AI competition didn’t mean building the smartest model, but finding a reliable way to make one fail? That’s the idea behind Kaggle’s AI Agent Security – Multi-Step Tool Attacks competition. Instead of improving prediction accuracy, competitors have to uncover security failures in AI agents that can interact with tools. The prize … Read more
What if your next Kaggle competition wasn’t about predicting house prices or classifying images, but teaching an AI to run an entire farm? That’s the idea behind Kaggriculture, where your AI agent has to make decisions about crops, animals, workers, land, and trading. And there’s a serious reason to pay attention: $50,000 in total prize … Read more