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 New anti-cloning rules fail to stop AI copying, while a major newspaper sues a browser for scraping and bypassing paywalls.
Memphis Officials weigh policy changes after football fights, while authorities seek two illegal voters and a missing endangered child.
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Today's big stories
More on the HubAI backlash influences upcoming election polls
Public sentiment toward artificial intelligence is now being reflected in political polling data.
Agentic web infrastructure emerges
New web interfaces and tools are designed specifically for AI agents to interact.
Major AI model and infrastructure updates released
New reports detail DeepSeek agents, GPT-6 variants, and Google's orbital computing plans.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
The Wire
All 30 days- Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clonesThe Verge
- Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lightsArs Technica
- Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boomArs Technica
- OpenAI pitches data center power plants as a way to protect nearby areasThe Verge
- The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywallsThe Verge
- The latest AI news we announced in October 2026Google AI
- Raising the quality of insights in agentic analyticsMIT Tech Review
- Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee payHacker News
- Introducing the Grid Protectors ProgramOpenAI
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.