The film's code designer, Simon Whiteley, reportedly created the effect by scanning characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks.

OpenAI has acquired Astral, the company behind Python tools uv and Ruff, to integrate them into its Codex platform as it competes with Anthropic's Claude Code.

Astral creates Python development tools such as uv, a package and project manager, and Ruff, a linter and formatter.

OpenAI on Thursday announced the acquisition of Astral, the developer of open source Python tools that include uv, Ruff and ty. It says that it plans to integrate them with Codex, its AI coding agent ...