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IIT Roorkee has launched a four-month postgraduate certificate in Building AI-Powered Business Applications for working professionals, with no programming experience required. Delivered online, it covers more than 15 AI and automation tools and develops applied skills through hands-on exercises and a capstone project.
The third International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence was held in Astana, Kazakhstan, with 471 contestants from 108 countries and regions. All eight members of China's team won awards, earning five gold and three silver medals. China also received an Outstanding Contribution Award for successfully hosting the inaugural Asia-Pacific Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (APOAI 2026).
Google added a vibe-coding course to its AI Professional Certificate on August 11 for learners with no programming experience. It teaches them to use natural-language instructions and Google AI Studio to build, test, debug, and deploy applications. Google launched the certificate in February and calls it Coursera's most popular generative-AI certificate, although it has not disclosed enrollment.
