OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools.  The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development ...

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 ...

These heroes of open source software are hard at work behind the scenes without you even realizing it.

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for traditional software companies. As one analyst ...

Forensic science has historically lacked a uniform definition, which has often blurred the distinction between trusting the investigator and trusting a scientific method, thereby compromising the ...

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to ...

RSAC Conference (formerly RSA Conference) on Monday announced the availability of a new open source threat intelligence visualization tool, Quantickle. Created via vibe coding by Snorre Fagerland, ...

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...

Bing is giving websites their first look at how content performs in AI-generated answers. A new AI Performance dashboard shows citation counts, page-level data, and trend lines. "Grounding queries" ...

As more and more Americans turn to generative AI tools to answer their questions, federal officials are working to ensure that third-party chatbots can more easily rely on public data to inform ...

Researchers have published the recipe for an artificial-intelligence model that reviews the scientific literature better than some major large language models (LLMs) are able to, and gets the ...