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OpenAI Acquires Astral, Bringing uv, Ruff, and Python’s Most Beloved Developer Tools Into Its Codex Ecosystem
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OpenAI has announced plans to acquire Astral, the developer tooling startup behind three of the most widely used open-source Python tools on the internet: uv, Ruff, and ty. The deal, revealed on March 19, 2026, signals OpenAI’s increasingly aggressive push into the software development lifecycle and its ambition to make Codex — its AI…

















