Sam Altman Just Bought the Tools Every Python Developer Uses Every Day
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What happens when the most powerful AI lab in the world decides it needs to own the plumbing? On March 19th, OpenAI announced it would acquire Astral - a small but extraordinarily influential developer tools company - and fold its team directly into the Codex division. If you haven't heard of Astral, you've almost certainly used its software. Ruff, the Python linter Astral ships, pulls 179M downloads every month. u, its Rust-based package manager, notches 126M.