OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral

In a move clearly designed to strengthen its position among developers, OpenAI has acquired Python tool maker Astral. The house of Altman expects the deal to strengthen the ecosystem for its Codex ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI upgrades its Responses API to support agent skills and a complete terminal shell

Credit: VentureBeat made with GPT-Image-1.5 on fal.ai Until recently, the practice of building AI agents has been a bit like training a long-distance runner with a thirty-second memory. Yes, you could ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT

OpenAI announced on Friday it’s launching a research preview of Codex, the company’s most capable AI coding agent yet. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of the company’s o3 AI reasoning model ...
CNBC

Sam Altman expects OpenAI to exit 'code red' by January after launch of GPT-5.2 model

OpenAI on Thursday announced GPT-5.2, its most advanced artificial intelligence model. The company said the model is better at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, perceiving images, writing ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI deploys Cerebras chips for 'near-instant' code generation in first major move beyond Nvidia

OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a stripped-down coding model engineered for near-instantaneous response times, marking the company's first significant inference partnership outside ...
The Financial Times

OpenAI’s ‘code red’ moment

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For tech start-ups, relentless focus can be critical. Google’s famous mission statement, to “organise the world ...