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 Making the internet better for AI agents, indie developers fear clones, and leaders link AI to life extension or nuclear threats
Memphis A man shot and ran over goats in a dispute, attacked a dog with a machete, and a church burned 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 HubAI agents exploit major brands and systems
A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja using an army of AI agents.
Anthropic workforce and model changes reported
Replit drops Anthropic and Anthropic's workforce changes are noted in updates.
AI safety and political debate
Democrats think cracking down on AI could give them an edge.
AI agents change internet behavior
Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
The Wire
All 30 days- Accused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI saysArs Technica
- Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone elseMIT Tech Review
- “We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI worldMIT Tech Review
- AI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their workArs Technica
- Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuitsArs Technica
- JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukesThe Verge
- A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agentsThe Verge
- Democrats think cracking down on AI could give them an edgeThe Verge
- AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”MIT Tech Review
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.