OpenAI to buy Python toolmaker Astral to take on Anthropic

March 19 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Thursday it will acquire Python toolmaker Astral, as the ChatGPT ​owner looks to ...
UC San Diego Today

A UC San Diego Tool Teaching Code to 25 Million is Even More Critical in Age of AI

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...
InfoWorld

I ran Qwen3.5 locally instead of Claude Code. Here’s what happened.

You can now run LLMs for software development on consumer-grade PCs. But we’re still a ways off from having Claude at home.
Computer Weekly

Pathway builds truly native reasoning model to solve LLM Sudoku stumbling blocks

First set out in a scientific paper last September, Pathway’s post-transformer architecture, BDH (Dragon hatchling), gives LLMs native reasoning powers with intrinsic memory mechanisms that support ...

Gigasoft Solves AI’s Biggest Charting Code Problem: Hallucinated Property Names

ProEssentials v10 introduces pe_query.py, the only charting AI tool that validates code against the compiled DLL binary ...
InfoWorld

Python’s popularity slip: Here’s what we know

Python faces new challenges from old rivals, but is it a blip or something more? In other news, we have goodies like easy-install instances of PostgreSQL, a peek at the state of the art in visual ...