OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools.  The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development ...

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

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...

GlassWorm campaign injects malware into GitHub Python repos using stolen tokens since March 8, 2026, exposing developers to ...

This article introduces practical methods for evaluating AI agents operating in real-world environments. It explains how to ...

Testing is where Thailand's AI adoption often pays off quickly, because it reduces waiting. AI can draft unit tests from code, suggest regression ...

Manufact, a Y Combinator startup, raised $6.3 million to build open-source tools and cloud infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard backed by Anthropic and OpenAI ...

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

The ‘Getting Started’ section is like the quick-start guide for a new gadget. It gives you the most important first steps, ...

OpenAI brings its AI coding assistant Codex to Windows, allowing developers to run multiple AI agents and streamline complex programming workflows.