Janet Harrison

Janet Harrison has over 16 years experience in the financial services industry giving her a vast understanding of how news affects the financial markets, and an early adopter of blockchain technology and digital currencies. Janet is an active holder and trader spending the majority of her time analyzing blockchain projects, reports and watching new and upcoming projects and other initiatives in the industry. She has a Masters Degree in Economics with previous roles counting Investment Banking.

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Janet Harrison · May 16, 2026

Orthrus makes local AI inference economics look worth rechecking

Orthrus claims lossless parallel decoding for Qwen3-based models by adding a trainable diffusion view while keeping the backbone frozen. The real test is whether its reported speedups survive production serving in frameworks such as vLLM and SGLang.

Janet Harrison · May 16, 2026

OpenMOSS gets a C++ port as local voice AI chases easier deployment

A new GGML-based C++ pipeline for OpenMOSS points to a practical shift in local voice AI. For startups, the key issue is no longer only model quality, but whether speech systems can be deployed without brittle Python-heavy stacks.

Janet Harrison · May 15, 2026

Waymo's empty Atlanta trips show robotaxis have an operations problem

Empty Waymo vehicles have reportedly been routing through northwest Atlanta cul-de-sacs, raising questions about robotaxi fleet operations. The issue comes days after a separate Waymo software recall tied to flooded-road behavior, putting fresh attention on routing, safety, and local trust.

Janet Harrison · May 15, 2026

Bill Ackman is betting Microsoft can outlast the AI spending scare

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square is taking a new position in Microsoft as investors debate whether AI infrastructure spending is a risk or a moat. The bet appears to rest on both Microsoft 365's enterprise durability and the long-term value of Azure's AI buildout.

Janet Harrison · May 15, 2026

xAI brings Grok Build into the coding agent fight

xAI has launched Grok Build, a terminal-based coding agent available first to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers. The beta shows how coding agents are becoming a paid workflow battle, not just a model benchmark contest.

Janet Harrison · May 15, 2026

Mira Murati is making AI collaboration the product

Thinking Machines Lab is positioning interaction models as a human-in-the-loop alternative to autonomous-agent hype. The company's first model, TML-Interaction-Small, points to a new interface for AI work tools, but delayed access and closed benchmarks leave room for caution.

Janet Harrison · May 15, 2026

Kioxia is chasing a U.S. listing as AI makes storage scarce

Kioxia is preparing a U.S. ADS listing while AI demand is tightening NAND supply and lifting storage profits. The move would give U.S. investors a clearer way to buy into one of the less visible but increasingly important AI infrastructure bottlenecks.

Janet Harrison · May 15, 2026

Poetiq shows model orchestration can beat bigger coding models

Poetiq says its Meta-System lifted multiple models on LiveCodeBench Pro without fine-tuning or privileged access. The startup's claim points to a larger question for AI entrepreneurs: whether orchestration layers can become a defensible business around frontier models.

Janet Harrison · May 15, 2026

Clawdmeter makes Claude Code usage visible on the desk

Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage into a tiny desktop dashboard with charts and pixel-art animations. The project shows how AI coding consumption is becoming something developers and startups want to measure, manage and sometimes display.

Janet Harrison · May 15, 2026

Anthropic says the AI race now turns on chips and enforcement

Anthropic's new 2028 AI leadership paper frames the U.S.-China AI race as a fight over chips, data-center access and model distillation. The warning is partly national-security realism and partly a policy push that would strengthen frontier labs already at the center of the market.

Janet Harrison · May 15, 2026

Nvidia puts Kimi K2.6 on a faster path to Blackwell inference

Nvidia posted Kimi-K2.6-NVFP4 on May 13, 2026, giving Moonshot AI's 1T-parameter Kimi K2.6 a Blackwell-ready inference package. The release shows how open frontier-scale models are moving from impressive downloads toward deployable infrastructure choices for startups.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026

Meta Is Showing How AI Spending Can Break a Happy Workforce

Meta is preparing to cut roughly 8,000 jobs while reporting nearly $27 billion in quarterly profit and raising its 2026 AI capex plans. The story shows how AI infrastructure is becoming a direct competitor for headcount, and why startups may have a new opening in the talent market.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026

Khosla Ventures backs Ian Crosby's AI bookkeeping comeback

Synthetic raised $10 million from Khosla Ventures to build autonomous AI bookkeeping for software startups. Ian Crosby's Bench history gives the company unusual credibility, but also raises the trust bar after Bench's abrupt 2024 collapse.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026

India is becoming the first real test of AI job disruption

India's IT sector is still growing, but AI agents are putting pressure on the manpower-heavy outsourcing model. For founders, the shift creates both talent-market risk and a chance to build with smaller, more automated teams.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026

Bitcoin holders are turning scarcity into a market structure issue

Long-term Bitcoin conviction buyers have accumulated nearly 4 million BTC since the end of 2025, according to BitGo data cited by Bitfinex. The bigger issue is whether ETF demand, corporate treasuries and borrowing products are making liquid Bitcoin supply harder to access.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026

Coinbase backs the CLARITY Act as crypto rules reach markup.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is now backing a Senate markup of the CLARITY Act after lawmakers reached a compromise on stablecoin rewards. The bill could shape how crypto startups, exchanges, stablecoin issuers and DeFi teams operate in the United States.