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

OpenAI said on Thursday it will acquire Python toolmaker Astral, as the ChatGPT ​owner looks to strengthen its portfolio ...

The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, ...

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

OpenAI said on Thursday it will buy Python toolmaker Astral, as the ChatGPT maker seeks to strengthen its portfolio against rival Anthropic to gain more share in the artificial intelligence coding ...

Python may not work in the VS Code terminal due to several reasons: the Python executable path is missing from your system’s PATH environment variable, the wrong Python interpreter is selected in VS ...

You can now run LLMs for software development on consumer-grade PCs. But we’re still a ways off from having Claude at home.

OpenAI, the leading artificial intelligence platform, has aimed to built a strong platform against Anthropic. The ChatGPT owner said on Thursday, March 20, 2026, it will acquire Python ...

Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...

Today is Microsoft's March 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 79 flaws, including 2 publicly disclosed zero-day ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

As Microsoft announced, the Python Environments Extension for Visual Studio Code is generally available after a one-year preview phase. It is intended to make the workflow for managing Python ...