Open vs Closed Ended in the Plumbing
2026-08-08 Daily Report — OpenAI shipped Agent Plugins, a portable plugin standard spanning ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot; AMD bought Taalas to etch model weights directly into silicon; and DeepSeek's V4 Flash cracked the ARC Prize leaderboard's top tier — three moves that settled the open-versus-closed argument a layer below where anyone was arguing.