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 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.

“AI may generate code faster than any human,” Guo said. “But the need to understand what code is doing has only intensified. AI generates code that may seem right, but it isn’t always reliable. You ...

Del Mar College receives a $100,000 grant from Texas Mutual Insurance to expand its safety training, aiming to reduce incidents in workplaces.

Hawaii lawmakers are considering lowering the state’s legal blood alcohol limit for drivers—a shift supporters say could save ...

OpenAI's most significant competitors in the AI coding space include Cursor and Anthropic ( ANTHRO ). Cursor is in talks with investors for a funding round that would value the startup at about $50B.

At GTC 2026, Jensen Huang, Aravind Srinivas, Harrison Chase, Mira Murati, and Michael Truell made a compelling case that the future of AI belongs to open agent systems, not just open models.

Google Partners with Utilities to Reduce Data Center Use During Peak Demand, a Meta AI Agent Grants Unauthorized Access in Internal Security Incident, and Perplexity’s Comet AI Browser Lands ...

Trevor Milton is back after his 2025 pardon, now raising money for a new jet project tied to SyberJet’s SJ36 program.

People lament the state of our tech sector, but several booming companies bring Monty Python to mind: We’re not dead yet.