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 Celebrity AI deepfakes, robot toy secrets on Chinese servers, and feeding data to AI agents pull the mood down.
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Today's big stories
More on the HubAnthropic reports strong revenue growth ahead of IPO
Anthropic told investors its quarterly revenue is up nearly 50 percent to 16.8 billion dollars ahead of its initial public offering.
Safety and privacy concerns rise around autonomous AI agents
Experts warn against feeding data to AI agents as companies approach autonomy in financial agents and rogue agents sit for interviews.
OpenAI and Anthropic face legal and regulatory challenges
Eight states are suing OpenAI over child safety concerns, while the FTC is probing both OpenAI and Anthropic.
Meta releases Muse AI models optimized for Mac computers
Meta has released its Muse Spark Open model and partnered with Apple to make Muse AI models run better on Mac computers.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
The Wire
All 30 days- Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration workThe Verge
- Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One EndpointHugging Face
- Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on socialThe Verge
- Chirp PongSimon Willison
- Why We're Banning AIHacker News
- Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on MacsThe Verge
- An update on independent evaluatorsAnthropic
- Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agentsThe Verge
- Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google AntigravityGoogle DeepMind
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.