Seriously? Astral's tools aren't even AI-focused, and now they're tied to a company that's losing money hand over fist? Click to expand... I'm guessing that a fair amount of stuff around AI (be it ...

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 ...