OpenAI Acquires Developer Tooling Startup Astral

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By BeauHDMar 19, 2026, 1:00 pm82 ptsTrending
OpenAI announced it's acquiring developer tooling startup Astral to strengthen its Codex AI coding assistant, which has over 2 million weekly users and has seen a three-fold increase in user growth since the start of the year. CNBC reports: "Through it all, though, our goal remains the same: to make programming…

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