OpenAI to buy Python toolmaker Astral to take on Anthropic

March 19 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Thursday it will acquire Python toolmaker Astral, as the ChatGPT ​owner looks to ...

OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...
NextBigFuture

Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch and the Self Improvement Loopy Era of AI

Andrej Karpathy is pioneering autonomous loop” AI systems—especially coding agents and self-improving research agents—while advancing AI-native education ...

AI Agents Run Experiments While You Sleep, So What Should Knowledge Workers Do?

Karpathy's autoresearch and the cognitive labor displacement thesis converge on the same conclusion: the scientific method is being automated, and the knowledge workforce may be the next casualty.
NPR

Code Switch

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...
UC San Diego Today

A UC San Diego Tool Teaching Code to 25 Million is Even More Critical in Age of AI

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...