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 Border Patrol agent charged with murder in wife's death pulls today's 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 HubGoogle announces Gemini 4 Carbon model
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new frontier AI model focused on cybersecurity that tops leaderboards.
Real-time monitoring and evaluation of AI agents
Recent articles address the real-time monitoring of AI agents, pairing industrial autonomy with human control, and testing agents on professional tax assignments.
Data centers encounter local opposition and resource concerns
AI data centers face backlash over Arizona water usage, xAI noise buyout offers to homeowners, and opposition from Texas voters.
Meta delays business terms and releases pet app
Meta stated it will likely delay its controversial new business terms again and quietly launched an AI pet journal app.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
The Wire
All 30 days- We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real timeMIT Tech Review
- AI has come for Arizona’s waterThe Verge
- Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple PlatformsHugging Face
- Quoting Ted SandersSimon Willison
- Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’The Verge
- Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPCThe Verge
- Creating AI value with enterprise contextMIT Tech Review
- Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurityThe Verge
- Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't useArs 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.