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.

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.

As of mid-May 2026, the narrative around AI in software development has moved past the 'chatbot' phase into a new era of active collaboration. With Anthropic's launch of Claude Design, OpenAI's GPT-5.5 production readiness, and Microsoft's Visual Studio ...

OpenAI has spent the past year fielding lawsuits from the families of young people who died after extended interactions with ChatGPT. Now it is trying to give the developers who build on top of its models the tools to avoid creating the same problem.

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