The acquisition of Astral comes at a time when OpenAI is rapidly growing it developer platform. Since the start of this year, Codex has seen its usage increase five-fold, and it now boasts over 2 ...

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 ...

The Chicago Urban Heritage Project aims to digitize historic fire insurance maps from Chicago to create an historically accurate and downloadable building footprint data layers. And it’s all led by ...

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 ...

Strands Agents is a simple yet powerful SDK that takes a model-driven approach to building and running AI agents. From simple conversational assistants to complex autonomous workflows, from local ...

A Houston-area parent is suing state officials, accusing them of religious discrimination for barring Islamic schools from participating in Texas’ private school voucher program. The plaintiff, Mehdi ...

As Newark grapples with extreme heat, chronic flooding and some of the lowest tree canopy coverage in the region, city officials are asking residents to help design solutions for their own ...

Thinking about learning to code? Or maybe you want to get better at Python? There’s this book, the Python Crash Course book, that people seem to really like, especially if you’re looking on Amazon. It ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

When I started at my current job, I was hired into a brand new unit. There were only three of us, and we each operated mostly in our own silo. There was no hostility or toxicity, but there wasn’t much ...

Many kids are now imagining what a future in construction could look like after a morning of creative competition. At the 2026 Block Kids Building Competition on Jan. 17, kids were given a rock, a ...

ASHLAND — Many kids are now imagining what a future in construction could look like after a morning of creative competition. At the 2026 Block Kids Building Competition on Saturday, kids were given a ...