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.
Live systems
Updated 4:17pm Central · runs every hour
- Stories today
- 19
- Rated today
- 87
- Feeds live
- 68
AI news Lawsuits against AI companies and growing distrust in whether these tools can be trusted with daily life are weighing on the mood.
Memphis A teen's accidental death from gunfire, a family's home destroyed by fire, and a murder accusation are all weighing on the community.
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 HubClaude Haiku 5.5 releases
Claude Haiku 5.5 launched, with reports of better performance than GPT-6 Luna at the same price.
ChatGPT gets Intelligent UI update
ChatGPT rolled out an Intelligent UI update adding pictures, charts, and buttons to responses.
Nvidia bets on physical AI
Nvidia made a big bet on physical AI aiming for safer robotaxis and humanoid robots, while experts say robotics breakthroughs won't change lives soon.
Microsoft hardware and AI event
Microsoft unveiled new AI-friendly hardware, Windows changes, and the Surface Laptop Ultra.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
The Wire
All 30 days- Quoting Carson GrossSimon Willison
- California is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matchesThe Verge
- Launching an opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source softwareAnthropic Research
- USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAIThe Verge
- SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in computeThe Verge
- 2026 Usage Policy updateAnthropic
- Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward ClaudeThe Verge
- How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and CodexOpenAI
- Google’s AI note-taking app transcribes your meetings completely offlineThe 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.