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 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 ...

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

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 ...