OpenAI said on Thursday (March 19, 2026) it will buy Python toolmaker Astral, as the ChatGPT maker seeks to strengthen its portfolio against rival Anthropic to gain more share in the artificial ...

A new study suggests a substance in python blood could lead to new weight loss therapies for humans. The mice given the substance lost 9% of their body weight over 28 days. Scientists believe this ...

No more waiting on slow-loading modules or wasting time on ad hoc workarounds: Python 3.15’s new ‘lazy imports’ mechanism has you covered. When you import a module in Python, the module’s code must be ...

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 ...

Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI director and OpenAI cofounder, is calling a recent Python package attack "software horror"—and the details are genuinely alarming. A compromised version of LiteLLM ...

CU Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain metabolically healthy. The ...

Several of this week’s top stories touch on the pitfalls of open source development, especially when things like power, money, and ego are involved. Also, a look at Python’s nifty new sampling ...