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 ...

A post‑meal compound found in python blood curbed appetite in lab mice, hinting at future weight loss therapies.

Astral creates Python development tools such as uv, a package and project manager, and Ruff, a linter and formatter.

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.