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AI Digest
OpenAI Opens Codex to Open Models and ChatGPT to MCP Plugins
OpenAI's core surfaces opened to outsiders, with open models like GLM-5.3 Flash and Kimi K3 reportedly running natively in Codex under existing OpenAI commits, while ChatGPT gained the ability to build, host, and distribute MCP servers and plugins. Elsewhere, @ajassy announced DuckDB inside Aurora PostgreSQL for single queries across live and S3 data, and open-weight releases kept stacking up, led by Ant Ling's Ling-3.1-flash tease.

Finance Digest
The "Hollow Tree" Market: Bond Yields at Multi-Decade Highs as the Fed's New Hiking Cycle Bites
No index fireworks — and that's the point. A Goldman Sachs pro flagged Tuesday as "one of the more disturbing days of late," citing troubling features beneath placid index levels even as the market stalls, per MarketW...
Gaming Digest
Toss a Cart to Your Witcher — The Witcher 3's Free Remaster Is Here, and It's Already Dividing Players
Spooky season is officially upon us: **Pokémon Pokopia** has announced a limited-time Halloween in-game event headlined by Pumpkaboo — "Pumpkaboo, I see you," as Nintendo Life put it. The Switch 2 release calendar kee...
F1 Digest
Russell Closes In on 'Spooked' Antonelli as F1 Returns to Sepang
Qualifying is still days away, but the first grid penalty of the weekend is already inked in: [Lindblad will start from the back](https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/lindblad-to-take-grid-penalty-for-bahrain-gp/1086053...
Dispatch Board