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 acquires Astral, the Python toolmaker, to enhance Codex AI coding assistant as it competes with Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Clemson reached an agreement in October with the Office of Civil Rights to break with a program that supported diversity in business faculties.

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In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end cognitive complexity analysis workflow using complexipy. We start by measuring complexity directly from raw code strings, then scale the same analysis to ...

Join us to experiment, break things, and imagine new possibilities. Data Club meetings are meetings, not workshops. An introduction to a bit of software is followed by opportunities to try the ...

The University of Minnesota has severed its partnership with The PhD Project after signing a resolution agreement with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which flagged the ...

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