OpenAI has agreed to acquire Astral, a startup behind widely used Python development tools, in a deal designed to sharpen its Codex coding assistant as competition with Anthropic intensifies. The ...

OpenAI is consolidating its ChatGPT app, Codex coding platform, and Atlas browser into a single desktop application, the company’s CEO of Applications Fidji Simo announced at an internal all-hands ...

Astral creates Python development tools such as uv, a package and project manager, and Ruff, a linter and formatter.

OpenAI on Thursday announced the acquisition of Astral, the developer of open source Python tools that include uv, Ruff and ty. It says that it plans to integrate them with Codex, its AI coding agent ...

OpenAI acquires Astral, the Python toolmaker, to enhance Codex AI coding assistant as it competes with Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor.

OpenAI has made several recent acquisitions, including cybersecurity startup Promptfoo and health-care technology startup Torch.

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Scientists have taken a major step toward mimicking nature’s tiniest gateways by creating ultra-small pores that rival the dimensions of biological ion channels—just a few atoms wide. The breakthrough ...

A year ago, I had no clue how to write an iPhone app. Now I’ve shipped a fully-fledged strength training app, built with AI coding tools, or “vibe coding” as it’s become known. A lot of people get ...

Hello, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. “Programming, as it turns out, is just typing.” Talking at Cisco’s AI Summit in San Francisco on February 3, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made that ...

CNBC put the AI threat to software companies to the test by vibe-coding a version of the tools from Monday.com. Silicon Valley insiders say the most exposed software names are the ones that "sit on ...

Artificial intelligence is entering the era of self-improvement. On Thursday afternoon, OpenAI released a new cutting-edge coding model that the company said assisted in its own creation.