{"id":572755,"date":"2026-03-23T04:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=800663"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:30:19","slug":"ai-coding-race-intensifies-as-openai-moves-to-acquire-astral-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/ai-coding-race-intensifies-as-openai-moves-to-acquire-astral-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Coding Race Intensifies as OpenAI Moves to Acquire Astral Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/astral-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"AI Coding Race Intensifies as OpenAI Moves to Acquire Astral Startup\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>OpenAI disclosed this week that it has agreed to acquire Astral, the startup behind widely used open-source Python tools, in a bid to push its Codex system deeper into full-scale, agent-driven software development. Astral Acquisition Aims to Position OpenAI Codex as an End-to-End AI Coding Platform The deal, which has not yet closed, remains subject [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI disclosed this week that it has agreed to acquire Astral, the startup behind widely used open-source Python tools, in a bid to push its Codex system deeper into full-scale, agent-driven software development. Astral Acquisition Aims to Position OpenAI Codex as an End-to-End AI Coding Platform The deal, which has not yet closed, remains subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-572755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}