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 said Tuesday it will hold a one-day, in-person hackathon on Aug. 31 built around Codex, the company's artificial intelligence (AI) coding agent, marking its first event anywhere dedicated to ...

OpenAI is moving a step deeper into the software development stack with its planned acquisition of Astral, a company known for building widely used open-source Python developer tools. The move is less ...