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= Best program to beat ChatGPT’s AI
A Polish programmer P. Debiak (born on 28 July, 1983 in Gdynia), known as ‘Psyho’ has made world computer science’s history, and is the only human in the world to beat ChatGPT in the most prestigious programming competition AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025 (Heuristic Division), which was held in Tokyo in early July. The AtCoder World Tour Finals is a tournament that experts consider to be the most prestigious competition in the field of the so-called “programming heuristics”: only the best – the 12 highest-rated programmers in the world – took part in the event (it was not possible to apply for the competition; selected participants received invitations based on their rankings).
The competition lasted ten hours and required participants to solve complex optimisation problems: i.e. the task was to improve the designated code as much as possible by optimising it and making it more efficient.
He won the elite tournament ahead of 11 other participants, including one particular “competitor”, i.e. a specially prepared algorithm by OpenAI, which second. The advantage over ChatGPT grew from an initial 5.5 per cent to a final 9.5, which makes the scale of success all the more remarkable. “He is a very humble man and is very happy that he managed not only to win, but also to beat OpenAI, where he used to work,” said innovation design expert S. Eysmont, a friend of Debiak’s, to Euronews Next. As he noticed after competition, “the Humanity has won, so far!”; the note specifically vital as the competition involved solving optimisation problems at the highest level of difficulty as a combination of algorithmics, statistics, AI theory and creativity. It was not enough to know the algorithms, participants needed abilities to use them in a way that even a machine cannot predict…
As his friend added: the competition has been followed by the world’s biggest technology companies; and is seen as an indicator of “who really understands how code thinks”.
Source and citations from: Aleksandra Galka Reczko (22.07.2025), in: https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/07/22/humanity-has-won-so-far-meet-the-worlds-best-programmer-who-beat-ai-and-chatgpt?insEmail=1&insNltCmpId=339&insNltSldt=10080&insPnName=euronewsfr&insUuid=NWY2OGY1NmMtYTM0Ni00MDM1LTgwNDItNzQ2YzI3OTE2MTZm&isIns=1&isInsNltCmp=1
= Possible breaching of the EU Digital Services Act, DSA
More than 100 pieces of content published on Elon Musk’s X (USA) failed to comply with European rules but still appear on the social media platform despite being reported to X; the latter is categorised as a “Very Large Online Platform”, VLOP under the EU Digital Services Act, DSA and as such is legally obligated to mitigate systemic risks on their platform and investigate illegal content reports from users.
Besides, about 57 percent of the reports with illegal content received acknowledgement receipts, breaching DSA obligations.
More in the new report at: https://strapi.wemove.eu/uploads/Flagged_and_Ignored_Testing_X_s_Response_to_EU_Sanction_Violations_1_872cbb7718.pdf
The European Commission, launched a formal investigation into Musk’s X in 2025 for breaching the DSA and said it would finalise the investigation before the summer recess, which begins on July 25. However, the Financial Times reported in mid-July that the Commission will miss this deadline as it aims to conclude trade talks with the United States. Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told Euronews Next that it was continuing to investigate potential violations by X of the DSA’s illegal content rules: “the Commission is aware of these reports and is continuously assessing incoming information,” Regnier said.
Earlier in July, the Commission told X, it appeared to be in violation of other parts of the DSA, including “areas linked to dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers,” Regnier added.
In January, French prosecutors also launched an investigation following allegations that X’s algorithm was being used for the purposes of foreign interference. The researchers filed the reports to X on July 8-9, 2025: while they were met with automatic replies in most cases that X would look into their complaints, in the majority of them, they did not hear back. Euronews Next has also contacted X for comment about the report but did not receive a reply soon.
= The US acts as an AI export powerhouse
The US President Donald Trump signed three artificial intelligence-focused executive orders (one Executive Orders, EO was signed on July 23, 2025), which are a part of the country’s so-called AI action plan. He said he would keep “woke AI” models out of US government, turn the country into an “AI export powerhouse” and weaken environmental regulation on the technology. Artificial intelligence, AI will play a critical role in how Americans of all ages learn new skills, consume information and navigate their daily lives, postulate the EO. Americans will require reliable outputs from AI, but when ideological biases or social agendas are built into AI models, they can distort the quality and accuracy of the output.
One of the most pervasive and destructive of these ideologies is the so-called “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI). In the AI context, DEI includes the suppression or distortion of factual information about race or sex; manipulation of racial or sexual representation in model outputs; incorporation of concepts like critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism; and discrimination on the basis of race or sex. DEI displaces the commitment to truth in favor of preferred outcomes and, as recent history illustrates, poses an existential threat to reliable AI, acknowledged the EO.
More in: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/preventing-woke-ai-in-the-federal-government/#:~:text=LLMs%20shall%20be%20neutral%2C%20nonpartisan,accessible%20to%20the%20end%20user.
There are sharp debates both in the US and around the world on how to regulate AI, even among the influential venture capitalists who have been debating it on their favorite medium: the podcast. While some Trump backers have advocated an “accelerationist” approach that aims to speed up AI advancement with minimal regulation, others are taking a middle road of techno-realism. For example, D. Sacks (the SDSN President) said on the “All-In” podcast: “technology is going to happen, trying to stop it is like ordering the tides to stop; if we don’t do it, somebody else will”.
On July 22, 2025, more than 100 groups in the US, including labor unions, parent groups, environmental justice organisations and privacy advocates, signed a resolution opposing Trump’s embrace of industry-driven AI policy and calling for a “People’s AI Action Plan” that would “deliver first and foremost for the American people.” Thus, A. Aguirre, executive director of the non-profit Future of Life Institute, told Euronews Next that Trump’s plan acknowledged the “critical risks presented by increasingly powerful AI systems,” citing bioweapons, cyberattacks and the unpredictability of AI; in a statement, he said the White House should go further to protect citizens and workers. He added that “by continuing to rely on voluntary safety commitments from frontier AI corporations, it leaves the US at risk of serious accidents, massive job losses, extreme concentrations of power and the loss of human control; we know from experience that Big Tech promises alone are simply not enough”.
The US AI-policy plan prioritises AI innovation and adoption, urging the removal of any barriers that could slow down adoption across industries and government. The nation’s policy, Trump said, will be to do “whatever it takes to lead the world in artificial intelligence”. Yet it also seeks to guide the industry’s growth to address a longtime rallying point for the tech industry’s loudest Trump backers: countering the liberal bias they see in AI chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini.
The US tech industry has pushed for easier permitting rules to get its computing facilities connected to power, but the AI building boom has also contributed to spiking demand for fossil fuel production, which contributes to global warming. UN Secretary-General, A. Guterres called on the world’s major tech firms recently to power data centers completely with renewables by 2030. The plan includes a strategy to “disincentivise states from aggressively regulating AI technology”, calling on federal agencies not to provide funding to states with burdensome regulations. His message supported D. Trump saying: “we need one common sense US-wide federal standard that supersedes all states, supersedes everybody, so you don’t end up in litigation with 43 states at one time”.
Many tech giants are already favoring the ways toward building new data centers in the US and around the world: the OpenAI announced in July that it has switched on the first phase of a massive data center complex in Abilene, Texas, part of an Oracle-backed project known as Stargate that Trump promoted earlier in 2025. Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and xAI also have major projects underway.
Source and citations from: https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/07/24/no-woke-ai-more-energy-hungry-data-centres-and-winning-the-ai-race-inside-trumps-ai-action?insEmail=1&insNltCmpId=339&insNltSldt=10080&insPnName=euronewsfr&insUuid=NWY2OGY1NmMtYTM0Ni00MDM1LTgwNDItNzQ2YzI3OTE2MTZm&isIns=1&isInsNltCmp=1
= Digitalising the medical sector: AI-powered cap transforming thoughts into text
Scientists at the University of Technology Sydney are already using a cap-like device to explore how AI can interpret brain activity. The AI-powered cap monitors the brainwave patterns of a person wearing it and converts their thoughts into written language; the team behind the decoder says the system relies on two distinct types of AI to interpret brainwave signals.
“At first, we use the deep learning model to translate the brain signals into the intended words”, said Chin-Teng Lin, a researcher at the University of Technology Sydney, and added “then, we use the large language model to make the match of the decoded words and make up for the errors in EEG decoding”. The results are close, but not flawless, with about 75 per cent accuracy; the team says it is working toward a goal of 90 per cent accuracy.
Other language decoding systems in development, so far, have required subjects to have surgical implants, or go through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. In 2023, a study appeared about a stroke patient being able to communicate again thanks to a brain-computer interface and an AI voice generator made headlines.
In 2024, Elon Musk’s brain chip Neuralink was first implanted in a human skull; at that time specialists said it could play a role in helping stroke patients recover. “As scientists, we look at a medical condition and we look at what function has been affected by that medical condition; what is the need of the patient?” contemplated Mohit Shivdasani, a researcher at the University of NSW bioelectronics. “We then address that unmet need through technology to restore that function back to what it was. After that, the sky’s the limit,” Shivdasani added.
Source and citations from: https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/07/22/a-thinking-cap-this-ai-powered-cap-can-transform-thoughts-into-text?insEmail=1&insNltCmpId=339&insNltSldt=10080&insPnName=euronewsfr&insUuid=NWY2OGY1NmMtYTM0Ni00MDM1LTgwNDItNzQ2YzI3OTE2MTZm&isIns=1&isInsNltCmp=1