Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata (hanseungwook.github.io)

A research post exploring whether neural cellular automata can help with language model pretraining.

Astral to Join OpenAI (astral.sh)

Astral's own write-up on joining OpenAI and what it expects for Ruff, uv, and open source tooling.

OpenAI to Acquire Astral (openai.com)

OpenAI says it plans to acquire Astral, the team behind fast Python tooling like uv and Ruff.