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 HubGoogle Updates Gemini Features and Business Performance
Google enables document editing in Gemini chats, releases Gemini 4 Carbon, and adjusts ad strategy.
Regulation and Safety Concerns Arise for AI Deployment
Officials classify robot imports as threats, researchers call for agent monitoring, and water data is analyzed.
Commentary Addresses AI Overload and Industry Strategy
Writers discuss feeling overwhelmed by AI changes, Proton's strategic shift, and ChatGPT subscription benefits.
Anthropic and OpenAI Release Reports on AI Risks and AGI
Anthropic presents an AGI-focused business plan while OpenAI shares details on detecting model misalignment.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
The Wire
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
- API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptionsSimon Willison
- We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and MindustryHacker News
- Microsoft Research Focus – Edition #97Microsoft Research
- Trump declares robot imports a national security threatArs 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.