JD Desmarais
Director of Pre-Sales, ProTech Services Group · Memphis
Twenty-four years in infrastructure. I run AI models on hardware I own, I like teaching people to use them, and I think AI is a tool, not a companion.
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Today's big stories
More on the HubAI agents and opt-out preferences gain industry backing
Major AI companies support opting out of scraping, while OpenAI offers tools for training preferences.
Google reports AI Mode hurts search revenue significantly
Google acknowledges AI Mode impacts search revenue, with stock drops cited amid market concerns.
AI infrastructure and data center capacity shifts
Supersonic shifts focus to AI data centers, Fujifilm boosts tape production, and Altman discusses RAM.
Public and political reactions to AI risks
Pope Leo calls for AI disarmament, Wikipedia warns on rulings, and students face loan fraud issues.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
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All 30 days- Ai2 at COLM 2026: Open research, from models to agents for scienceAi2
- Introducing Olmo-core 3: Open, scalable training infrastructure for large MoEsAi2
- Now in Nature: Retrofitting language models to operate over bytesAi2
- OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planetAi2
- Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in AstaAi2
- Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China with iOS 27.3The Verge
- dbreunig/nesformerSimon Willison
- Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centersArs Technica
- Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hoursArs Technica
Who's driving
I've worked in IT since 2002: network manager at Bellevue Baptist, systems engineer at ProTech Systems Group, datacenter and capacity planning at FedEx, and now pre-sales at ProTech Services Group. I run Qwen models on a Mac with MLX and LM Studio, and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin for edge projects. My wife Amanda and I have taught students at Bellevue Baptist for more than ten years.
Why dice81. Dice was my white 1988 Volkswagen Cabriolet on black tires. 81 is the year I was born. The gauges up top are a nod to its dash.