OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...

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 ...

Python 3.15 has introduced a feature to allow “lazy” module imports, where an imported module isn’t actually evaluated until the first time it’s used. For modules that take a long time to initialize ...

Compliance continues to drive adoption of trusted open source: We saw the same themes from December present here, underscored ...