OpenAI has acquired Astral, the company behind Python tools uv and Ruff, to integrate them into its Codex platform as it competes with Anthropic's Claude Code.

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 has launched Codex for Open Source, offering maintainers six months of free ChatGPT Pro and API credits amid a surge of AI-generated pull requests.