OpenAI has agreed to acquire Astral, a startup behind widely used Python development tools, in a deal designed to sharpen its Codex coding assistant as competition with Anthropic intensifies. The transaction,

OpenAI has made several recent acquisitions, including cybersecurity startup Promptfoo and health-care technology startup Torch.

Codex is OpenAI’s cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on multiple tasks at the same time, such as answering questions about users’ codebase, fixing bugs, and more. With the acquisition,

Sam Altman says ChatGPT Codex subagents outperform Claude Code, using plain-language triggers and configurable agent files for PR reviews and debugging workflows.

Kie.ai''s GPT-5.4 Codex API streamlines front-end development by automating UI code generation, multi-file refactoring, and interface optimization.