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OpenAI to acquire developer tooling startup Astral in boost for Codex team

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Source: CNBC TechnologyMarch 19, 2026

Summary

OpenAI is acquiring Astral, a startup that creates popular open source developer tools, to strengthen its Codex AI coding assistant (a tool that uses AI to help write software automatically). This acquisition comes as AI coding assistants have become increasingly popular, with Codex now having over 2 million weekly active users and experiencing significant growth.

Classification

Attack SophisticationModerate

Affected Vendors

OpenAI

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Original source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/openai-to-acquire-developer-tooling-startup-astral.html

First tracked: March 19, 2026 at 11:00 AM

Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 95%