OpenAI (OPENAI) continues to acquire startups, and the Microsoft-backed (MSFT) company announced today it plans to buy Astral in order to integrate its coding tools into Codex. Codex is OpenAI's ...

OpenAI said it will acquire Astral, a startup that builds tools for software developers. Astral's team will join OpenAI as part of the group running its AI coding assistant, Codex. OpenAI has been ...

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 ...

OpenAI announces acquisition of Promptfoo, an AI security platform used by 25% of Fortune 500 companies, to integrate into its Frontier enterprise platform. OpenAI announced plans to acquire Promptfoo ...

Nvidia has unveiled NemoClaw, an open-source stack aimed at turning the fast-growing OpenClaw ecosystem into a secure, enterprise-ready platform for autonomous AI agents, extending its reach beyond ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Todd Bishop on Mar 16, 2026 at 6:14 ...

OpenClaw’s weak spots have not gone unnoticed and Australian pentester Jamieson O’Reilly, founder of DVULN, was among the first to call them out. Now, he’s been appointed OpenClaw’s security ...

Promptfoo has raised more than $23 million in funding for a platform that helps developers secure LLMs and AI agents. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, but Promptfoo has ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Meta said Tuesday it is acquiring Moltbook, a social network built exclusively for artificial intelligence agents to make posts and interact with each other. A takeover of the AI ...