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 Nothing alarming in today's headlines so far.
Memphis 14-year-old volleyball player loses leg, kids rescued holding handwritten note against home's window, TN AG seeks to block inspection of lethal injection drugs.
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 HubUnited Airlines bans AI flight booking agents
United Airlines prohibits AI agents from booking flights for travelers.
Google launches Gemini Decisions API
Google releases fast, calibrated multimodal decision API for developers.
Google Tabletop AI enables custom collaboration apps
Google's Tabletop experiment lets groups build collaborative planning and play spaces.
AlphaGenome 2 maps cellular disease mechanisms
DeepMind's AlphaGenome 2 deciphers how cells read DNA to understand disease.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
The Wire
All 30 days- Holiday Extras is rethinking what it can build with CodexOpenAI
- Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AIOpenAI
- Supporting research on AI and children’s safetyOpenAI
- Nvidia is reportedly preparing to fire Jensen HuangThe Verge
- Gemini Decisions APISimon Willison
- United won’t let your AI agent book your flightThe Verge
- United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelersHacker News
- aws-emulatorSimon Willison
- Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI BubbleHacker News
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.