As competition in the increasingly crowded generative AI space has intensified, it appears that OpenAI has turned to M&A to boost its offerings and stay ahead of its rivals. Overall, the San Francisco ...

OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount by the end of 2026 as it seeks to fend off competition from companies such as Anthropic PBC and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, according to the Financial Times The ...

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 ...

AI Expansions, Cyberthreats, and Industry Shifts Define This Week in Tech Your email has been sent Image created with Nano Banana Pro. From Meta’s AI talent grab and Google’s Gemini expansion to major ...

Cannabis regulators have extended the period that cannabis delivery licenses are available only to social equity applicants for another three years. On Friday, the Cannabis Control Commission voted to ...

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 ...