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 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.

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...

AI-assisted code speeds development, but introduces vulnerabilities at an alarming rate. Waratek IAST reports flaws ...

Critics call Garry Tan’s gstack just a bunch of text files. They’re right — and that’s exactly why the future of agentic development looks like Markdown.

New private repository secures the AI-driven development boom by grounding LLMs in a library of 79 million vetted, rebuilt-from-source components VANCOUVER, BC, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

Melbourne startup Cortical Labs uses 200,000 human brain cells in a petri dish to play Doom by translating game data into ...

Researchers show AI can learn a rare programming language by correcting its own errors, improving its coding success from 39% to 96%.

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The ...

GitHub's 2025 Octoverse reveals TypeScript added 1M+ contributors to claim #1 spot, as typed languages become essential for AI-assisted development workflows. TypeScript has dethroned Python as the ...