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 ...

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

The Wall Street Journal writes that Fidji Simo, OpenAI's Chief Executive of Applications, will be in charge of the superapp. She will also be looking after ...

OpenAI has announced plans to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas browser into a single desktop superapp targeting coding and ...