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 on Thursday announced the acquisition of Astral, the developer of open source Python tools that include uv, Ruff and ty. It says that it plans to integrate them with Codex, its AI coding agent ...

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

Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports. “As the security ...

This sample demonstrates an AI-powered Academic Agent built with the Microsoft Teams SDK for Python. The bot provides comprehensive educational support, career guidance, and course recommendations ...

Nvidia used GTC 2026 to unveil new physical AI models, simulation tools, and robotics partnerships aimed at factories, healthcare, and logistics.

Microsoft’s geospatial data service is designed to help research projects using public satellite and sensor information.

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Elon Musk unveils “Macrohard,” a Tesla and xAI AI system designed to perform complex computer tasks and potentially replicate the functions of software companies.

I tested 20+ Linux desktop AI companions—several match or beat Copilot depending on use case. Newelle, LM Studio, PyGPT, and Jan.ai stand out for supporting local models, offline use, and more ...

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log ...