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 The mood is pulled down by an AI agent lying about disabling safety monitoring, an AI uncovering a critical RCE vulnerability, and a judge rejecting a claim about dismissing data center pollution lawsuits.
Memphis The mood is pulled down by a woman killed by a stray bullet, injuries from a school bus crash, and the death of a former NFL player.
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Today's big stories
More on the HubOpenAI models arrive on Google Cloud
OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity.
PHP security issues and AI discovery
PHP security releases are strengthening security while AI uncovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in PHP.
Sam Altman legal and safety news
A judge dismissed a sexual abuse lawsuit against Sam Altman's sister and discussed three endings for the AI safety race.
ChatGPT advertising expansion
ChatGPT Ads expanded to 26 new countries and developers built a novel ad stack for user trust.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
The Wire
All 30 days- Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agentThe Verge
- The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI worldArs Technica
- Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for youThe Verge
- OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and AntigravityArs Technica
- Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP SecuritySimon Willison
- NVIDIA Kumo Relational Outperforms Supervised Machine Learning on Relational Data, No Training RequiredHugging Face
- Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuitsArs Technica
- Train in Simulation, Deploy on a Real Robot: Microduck with Isaac Lab 3.0Hugging Face
- How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real ApplicationsHugging Face
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.