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 tools are written in Rust, a programming language that ...

OpenAI has expanded its new GPT-5.1 models to the API, introducing adaptive reasoning that uses fewer tokens for easy tasks and more for complex ones. Yesterday, OpenAI released the GPT 5.1 series of models for ChatGPT customers. GPT‑5.1 Instant is a ...

With Flash GA, the company is attempting to transition from being a provider of raw compute to becoming the essential orchestration layer for the AI-first cloud.

On May 11, the same day Google's Threat Intelligence Group disclosed the first confirmed case of attackers using AI to build a zero-day exploit, OpenAI launched Daybreak, a new agentic cybersecurity platform that embeds its GPT-5.

OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its agent-building toolkit, as agentic AI continues to grow in popularity.

Peter Steinberger, the developer behind the OpenClaw system that lets AI agents coordinate workflows, has joined OpenAI. In a blog post detailing the move, Steinberger said the switch represented the “fastest way” to bring his vision of bringing to ...

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 into its Codex team. The deal, whose financial terms were ...

In May 2026, OpenAI released Symphony, a free open-source tool that automates long-running tasks and reduces human supervision using issue trackers like Linear.