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 ...

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.

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 ...

Visual Components has launched Visual Components 5.0, a major update to its 3D manufacturing simulation and robot offline programming software platform. The new version introduces faster simulation ...

The 2026 CX-5 gets its first new platform since the original was introduced in 2013, and my, CX-5, how you’ve grown. The new iteration is 4.5 inches longer, 0.6 inch wider, and just over an inch ...

Have you ever noticed on the Mazda CX-5's leather-wrapped steering wheel how the stitches are sewn on a curve so that they're horizontally aligned? If you're one of the many people whom Mazda thinks ...

Mazda's SUV lineup is really confusing, and that intensifies with the redesigned 2026 CX-5. Mazda announced pricing for the new CX-5 today, which starts at $31,485 for the base 2.5 S trim (including ...

The 2026 Mazda CX-60 and 2026 CX-80 have almost arrived at dealerships on the Old Continent, carrying enhanced performance and style elements, as well as a very interesting powertrain development.

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...