{"id":998836,"date":"2026-03-20T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998836"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:36:11","slug":"openai-acquires-astral-the-python-startup-whose-tools-run-on-millions-of-developer-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/20\/openai-acquires-astral-the-python-startup-whose-tools-run-on-millions-of-developer-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI acquires Astral, the Python startup whose tools run on millions of developer machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the startup whose tools quietly run inside the workflows of millions of Python developers. The deal drops Astral&#8217;s team into the Codex group, and the timing is not subtle: Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code has been steadily pulling professional developers away, and OpenAI needs Codex to be more than a code generator to fight back.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms weren&#8217;t shared. Regulatory approval is still pending before the deal officially closes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the startup whose tools quietly run inside the workflows of millions of Python developers. The deal drops Astral&#8217;s team into the Codex group, and the timing is not subtle: Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code has been steadily pulling professional developers away, and OpenAI needs Codex to be more than a code generator to fight back. Financial terms weren&#8217;t shared. Regulatory approval is still pending before the deal officially closes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}