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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AI news Nothing alarming in today's headlines so far.
Memphis A Clarksdale stabbing and an Oakhaven overnight shooting that left one dead and one injured are pulling the mood down.
A free AI model rates every headline from 0, upbeat, to 100, doom. The gauges show the daily average. See the chart on the Hub
Today's big stories
More on the HubAnthropic Claude game cloning policy restrictions
New rules against AI video game clones aim to limit copying but will not stop the broader trend.
AI improving AI without training
MIT demonstrates a method where AI systems improve other AI without requiring additional training data.
Super intelligence policy loyalty tests
Individuals are lining up to meet requirements for Trump's proposed loyalty tests for super intelligence development.
Anthropic internal AI costs exceed wages
Internal usage of Anthropic's AI models at retail prices now costs more than its total employee payroll.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
The Wire
All 30 days- StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documentsHugging Face
- Learn the rules: The hacker mindsetMicrosoft Research
- Agentic cheminformatics with Google AntigravityGoogle DeepMind
- Google is entirely disabling Search in schools that don’t want AIThe Verge
- Palette: teaching a small model to build decks in your design languageHugging Face
- Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, tooSimon Willison
- Midterm elections 2026: all the newsThe Verge
- Same Model, Different Harness: CUGA, Hermes, and Deep Agents — When to Pick CUGA?Hugging Face
- Apple is all in on AI — its own and everyone else’sThe Verge
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.