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  "textContent": "OpenAI announced it's acquiring developer tooling startup Astral to strengthen its Codex AI coding assistant, which has over 2 million weekly users and has seen a three-fold increase in user growth since the start of the year. CNBC reports: \"Through it all, though, our goal remains the same: to make programming more productive. To build tools that radically change what it feels like to build software,\" Astral's founder and CEO Charlie Marsh wrote in a blog post. The company's acquisition of Astral is still subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval.\n\nRead more of this story at Slashdot.",
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