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 ...

Astral tools and expertise will be leveraged in OpenAI Codex agentic coding app to expand AI capabilities across the software ...

When you're trying to get the best performance out of Python, most developers immediately jump to complex algorithmic fixes, using C extensions, or obsessively running profiling tools. However, one of ...